Chiara Giacobbe

From the founder of the modern Norwegian crime novel, a story that will keep you thrilled and mystified. Abbot Montrose, is missing. Only a torn fragment of his cassock remains. World-renowned detective Asbj�¸rn Krag begins to unravel the tangled knot of clues left behind. But the more answers he finds, the more questions seem to pop up.

From the pen of the Danish Agatha Christie . . .Murder Will Out.Holger Nielsen just wanted a quiet London vacation when he rented 48 Cranbourne Grove. But the rental agent forgot to mention he'd be sharing his new home with a very hungry cat and . . . the man in the cellar.When Holger Nielsen stumbles on a murder, the obvious thing to do is report it to the authorities and get on with his life. But as the crime unravels, it isn't clear whether it's worse to be an accessory to murder or an accessory to justice. The Man in the Cellar is more than just a great mystery. It's an insider's tour of turn-of-the-century London and Denmark. But beware. Scandinavia hasn't always been IKEA and Legos.Baron Palle Adam Vilhelm Rosenkrantz, born in 1867, is the father of the Danish mystery novel. In the early part of the 20th century, he was one of the best-selling authors in Scandinavia and Germany. To this day, the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize is awarded annually to the best crime novel published in Danish.

Matilda Serao was a giant of early 20th century Italian literature as well as a pioneer. She was a journalist -- she ran her own newspaper for several years -- and an accomplished novelist and short story writer who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. She was also a genuine character. Edith Wharton described her like this, "With her strident dress and intonation, she seemed an incongruous figure in that drawing-room where everything was in half-shades and semi-tones, but when she began to speak we had found our master." In these stories, Serao writes of love and romance as if she were Barbara Cartland's older, crankier -- and often much funnier -- sister. She turns many of the standard romantic cliches upside down with sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, but always unexpected, results. After an evening with Matilde Serao, you will never look at romance quite the same way In this edition, these stories appear in English for the first time.

In Mind Games, Capuana focuses on the psychology of his characters and their inner worlds. His characters are often comical or absurd, yet always act in accordance with the iron logic of their manias, flaws and quirks. This collection of emotional thrillers explores the always fascinating -- and sometimes dangerous -- territory of our inner realities. The line between sanity and insanity may be thinner than we would like to think. Luigi Capuana (1839-1915) is a pivotal figure in Italian literature. Capuana, along with his better-known compatriot, Giovanni Verga, founded the Verismo movement, the Italian answer to the Realist movement sweeping European literature in the mid-nineteenth century. A prolific writer, Capuana published six novels and many more volumes of short stories, plays, essays and other works during his lifetime. The present work, Mind Games (originally published in 1902 as Delitto Ideale), is well-known in Europe but this edition marks its first appearance in English.