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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A member of the homicide department of the people's militia, State Security Officer Brano Sev is sent to the village of his birth to interrogate a potential defector, but his mission is complicated by a murder in which he becomes the prime suspect.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1948; three years after the Soviets liberated a tiny nation from German occupation. But the ideals of the revolution have dissipated - the Red Army still patrols the rubble-strewn streets of the Capital; everyone is careful to address one another as Comrade; lawlessness and corruption are the rules of the City. The young homicide inspector Emil Brod, fresh from the police academy, is unprepared for the instant hatred his colleagues appear to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
When a motherless American girl living in Europe finds a medieval book and a package of letters, all addressed ominously to "My dear and unfortunate successor..." she begins to unravel a thread that leads back to her father's past, his mentor's career, and an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright: a hunt that nearly brought her father to ruin and may have...
5) The keep
Author
Language
English
Description
Two decades after taking part in a childhood prank with devastating consequences, two cousins are reunited at a remote medieval castle in Eastern Europe, where they are cut off from the outside world and doomed to reenact the horrific event from their paTwo cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eastern Europe, 1956: Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar, who is a proletariat writer in addition to his job as a state militia homicide detective, is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife, whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his colleagues, and frustrated by writer's block, Ferenc's attention is focused on his job. But his job is growing increasingly political, something that makes him profoundly uncomfortable. When Ferenc is asked...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
he revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer's fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary crime series, with its two Edgar Award nominations along with other critical acclaim, one of today's most acclaimed. Finally having reached the tumultuous 1980s, the series comes full circle as one of the earliest cases of the People's Militia reemerges to torment all of the inspectors, including Emil Brod, now...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prague, 1968: Peter Husak, a young student, is captured as he tries to flee the country in the wake of Russia's suppression of Czechoslovakia's fledgling freedom movement. Seven years later, a People's Militia homicide investigator with defection on his mind boards a plane for Istanbul. When it is hijacked by Armenian terrorists, the Turkish authorities try to establish contact - but the plane explodes in mid-air. No negotiation, no explanation. Why?...
Author
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind ― and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary ― they tell their stories and confront their destinies: The Rusalka, the beautiful vengeful water spirit who lives in lakes and ponds and lures men and children to their deaths ; The...
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