Howard Curtis

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles, a journey of unexpected adventure and profound discovery that helps them come to truly know each other.

Antonio

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Jean-Claude Izzo's . . . growing literary renown and huge sales are leading to a recognizable new trend in continental fiction: the rise of the sophisticated Mediterranean thriller. . . . Caught between pride and crime, racism and fraternity, tragedy and light, messy urbanization and generous beauty, the city for detective Fabio Montale is a Utopia, an ultimate port of call for exiles. There, he is torn between fatalism and revolt, despair and sensualism....

Maigret and his fellow inspector Lognon find themselves trying to out-manoeuver each other when they investigate the case of a mysterious young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut short. Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile. Was it the bruises that gave her that sullen air? She looked like a bad-tempered little girl. Her combed-back brown hair was...

Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in France under German occupation, and he works as a pimp in his mother's whorehouse when he murders a German soldier.

"Take a journey to the highest and most beautiful mountain range in the world--the Himalayas. A magical destination, thought to be the soul of our planet. This book treks up, down, and through these magnificent mountains, revealing the history and legends of Nepal, India and Tibet along the away. Meet the people and the wildlife who live a wondrous life in the cold, white mountains; climb Everest to reach the top of the world. Adventure awaits!"--...

"Sébastien is fifteen years old and already versed in the medicinal arts when he meets the young nobleman Balthazar de Créon, whose life he saves after the latter is thrown from a horse. De Créon, struck by the boy's beauty as much by his talents as a healer, orders Sébastien to his manor some months later so he can instruct him in the ways of the court, hoping thus to install him as Louis XV's surgeon. His motives, however, are clouded by his...

"A police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Sa�id, is fifteen years old. Mattia is just eleven years old, and while he didn't know Sa�id, he sees the boy's face all over the neighborhood, graffitied on walls in red paint, demanding "Justice." Mattia decides to put the pieces of the puzzle together and to try to understand what happened. Because even the dead don't stay buried forever. And nothing is ever really lost." --

CLASSIC CRIME. When a man's headless body is pulled from the Canal Saint Martin, Maigret and his colleagues are puzzled. In a chance encounter at a local cafe Maigret uncovers the truth behind this disturbing murder in an intriguing story of an estranged family, adulterous affairs and a secret inheritance. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations.