When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastary, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or perhaps a member of the brutal Napali criminal organization, the Camorra? As Natalia pursues her investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts; and all across the city heaps of trash pile up, uncoll...

A young girl seeks answers from an itinerant augur. A carnival menagerie introduces the oddities of the world to a rural Siberian town, and to an eccentric lovelorn man. An Armenian soviet bureaucrat has a brush with the afterlife.Stories by Sergey Gerasimov, Chloe Smith, and Jan Weiss. Translation by Julie Nováková. This issue illustrated by Sophie Derevianchuk.Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure and the outré, to narrowing the gap ...

A strange creature grows in a garden. An android mothers a child. A student becomes enamored with her work. A Spanish inquisitor confronts evil. An immigrant comes to a haunted mansion. A group of teenagers goes camping in the woods.Stories by Eliza Browning, Laura DeHaan, Trent Hudley, Mahiro Saeki, Ndaba Sibanda, and Adam Slavny. Translation by Toshiya Kamei. This issue illustrated by Sue Choi.Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure an...

A special issue of horror and dark fantasyA vacationing couple spends time by the sea. A kindly haywain driver picks up a nighttime passenger. A lone man endures the apocalypse. A professional curse pursues his mark.Stories by David Gallay, Zena Shapter, Subodhana Wijeyeratne, and Marcelo Sáez Worsley. Illustrations by Zuzanna Kwiecien.

Tension runs high as a Moscow cop investigates murder under the big top—from the Edgar Award–winning "Ed McBain of Mother Russia" ( Kirkus Reviews).Porfiry Rostnikov was one of the top detectives in Moscow—until he crossed the KGB. On the orders of the secret service, this bulldog cop is busted down to the minor crimes unit, where his talents are utterly wasted. When a drunk climbs the statue of Nikolai Gogol in Arbat Square and threatens to kill himself, ...

Jan Merete Weiss’s Italy comes to life as Captain Natalia Monte of the Naples Carabiniere returns to investigate a murder committed at the heart of the great city’s art community.When the bodies of two men are found, shockingly posed, in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples’s decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in sol...

In the Italian city of Naples, senior police officer Captain Natalia Monte is called to investigate the theft of a painting from the medieval Church of San Domenico Maggiore. No sooner is the investigation underway than the city is rocked by a much graver crime: the murder of a talented and much-loved female violinist, known across the city and beyond.As Captain Monte and her fellow Carabinieri interview close friends and family of the victim, they sense all around them the dark fo...

PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a "raucous, delicious ride" from the celebrated Italian crime writer and author of Bandit Love ( Cedar Rapids Gazette).Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a trace. After a few months of searching, the police send his file to the cold cases department to be thrown in with the files of other missing persons. One woman knows the truth about his disappearance, but, bein...

Commissario Alec Blume, on leave for health problems, fleeing his partner Caterina and their newborn daughter, retreats to a villa somewhere in central Italy, where he enrolls in a natural remedies class conducted by a young woman named Silvana.But rather than finding comfort, Blume becomes increasingly ill-and ill at ease-in his new environment, and immediately makes an enemy of Niki, Silvana's ambiguous fiancé. Then a Romanian girl who works in Niki's nightclub comes to Blume and...

Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own inquiries.The Puppeteer is the follow-up to CWA award-winner Timothy Williams’s dazzling crime fiction debut, Converging Parallels. This tautly written novel brings us to th...

Darko Dawson, Chief Inspector in the Ghana police service, returns in this atmospheric crime series often compared to Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels.Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service—the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn’t have long to celebrate because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana’s capital, out to remote Obuasi in...

Four gripping police procedurals set in Bruges, starring "a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).Featuring the bad-tempered, libidinous, alcoholic but skilled police investigator Deputy Commissioner Pieter Van In, these four gritty crime novels from a #1 international bestselling author reveal the darker side of the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges.The Square of Revenge: The per...