Martin Cruz Smith

"Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman's body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand...

Russian cop Arkady Renko, not the most popular man on the force, is assigned to investigate reported sightings of Stalin's ghost in a Moscow subway station, which leads him to a murder investigation that has links to Nikolai Isakov, a former Black Beret now running for public office.

Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern day Moscow The death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub puts Investigator Arkady Renko's skills to the test

Harry Niles, whose fluency in Japanese idioms of culture and language was honed for years as a missionary brat, knows that there is just one chance for him to leave Japan before war breaks out. A wheeler-dealer of the first order, he must extricate himself from the love affairs, vendettas, investigations, and outright cons that he has perpetrated over the years. Strongly suspected of being a spy by both Japan and the United States, Harry plays both...

Chief Homicide Investigator Arkady Renko's investigation of three mutilated bodies reaches to the highest levels of the Communist hierarchy.