In Roddy Doyle's novel witty and poignant novel of working-class life in Dublin, 10-year-old Paddy copes with his parents' fights, his earthy neighborhood, and the trials of his little brother Sinbad. PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1993.

Boston private eye Spenser investigates a murder that may be related to a cocaine smuggling ring.

Set in Palestine in the early 1920s, Jonathan Wilson's second novel is about three characters whose fates interlock in a devastating counterpoint to the tense political situation there. Robert Kirsch is a British Jew working for the Palestinians as a police detective. Mark Bloomberg is a failed (and depressed) London painter hired to paint the Zionist settlements in Palestine, who is alienated from his non-Jewish wife Joyce, an American interested in the Zionist cause. When a local journalist is murdered, the stories of all concerned converge, and each is forced to seek a kind of redemption in an unexpected place. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

When London's reigning drug czar dies, chaos takes over the city's underworld as various mobsters grapple for the throne. Panicking Ralph Ember, a class-conscious gangster, is the front runner, but his rivals aren't going down without a fight. Detective Colin Harpur and and his boss, Desmond Iles, try to stanch the bloodshed.

Paradise Alley is a slum in New York City, and in 1863 it is the site of the riots that occurred when working-class men who were too poor to avoid military service through bribes were drafted into the army. The story is told from the viewpoint of a New York Tribune reporter, and supplemented by the tales of a large cast of characters, including Ruth Dove, a survivor of the Irish Potato Famine, her black husband Billy, and the evil Johnny Dolan, a murderous ex-con who is stalking Ruth. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

An organized crime family pursues a vendetta against a Neapolitan cop in this hardboiled crime novel. After his father was killed by the mob family known as the Camorra, Giancarlo Lo Manto's mother moved them both from New York back to the family home in Italy. Now a tough homicide cop in Naples, Lo Manto's personal life once again intersects with the Camorra when they bait him into returning to New York by kidnapping his niece Paula, who's studying in that city. The author also wrote the bestselling book SLEEPERS, and served as a writer/producer for the TV series LAW & ORDER.

Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady's 12-year-old daughter, Jenny, and Jenny's friend, troubled and rebellious Dora, find the body of a woman in the woods. Days later, Dora is brutally murdered. Terrified for Jenny's safety, Joanna tries to find the killer.

Norwich's collection of essays celebrates Venice with forays into the lives of famous Venetians and visitors, including Byron, Napoleon, Ruskin, Henry James, Whistler, Sargent, and the very naughty Baron Corvo.