Olen Steinhauer, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-30245-0
Set in 1948 in a small, unnamed Eastern European country devastated by WWII and still occupied by Russian troops, Steinhauer's promising debut introduces 22-year-old homicide inspector Emil Brod of the People's Militia. Brod's police...
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Olen Steinhauer, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-30328-0
Steinhauer's original and mesmerizing first mystery, 2002's The Bridge of Sighs
, was set in 1949, in an unnamed East European country. Now it's 1956, and the homicide detective who starred in that first book—the young, hopeful...
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Olen Steinhauer, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-312-33201-3
Did Brano Sev, an agent of an unnamed Eastern European country, kill Bertrand Richter in Vienna in the 1960s? Or was he set up by his superiors at the Ministry of State Security, the headquarters of his service located at the address that gives...
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Olen Steinhauer, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-312-33204-4
Steinhauer's dazzling fourth book in his series about various police and intelligence agents in an unnamed Communist-era Eastern European country gives a large role to Brano Sev, the seriously conflicted spy who starred in the previous entry, 36
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Olen Steinhauer, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-312-36971-2
At the start of Edgar-finalist Steinhauer's fine fifth and final entry in his series set in an unnamed Eastern European Communist country (after 2006's Liberation Movements
), homicide inspector Emil Brod, now chief of police and three...
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Olen Steinhauer, Author St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-312-36972-9
Edgar-finalist Steinhauer takes a break from his crime series set in an unnamed Eastern European country under Communist rule (Liberation Movements
, etc.) to deliver an outstanding stand-alone, a contemporary spy thriller. Milo Weaver used to be a &
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Olen Steinhauer, Author . Minotaur $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-62287-9
Milo Weaver, a former field agent with the CIA's clandestine Department of Tourism, returns to action after a stint in prison for alleged financial fraud in this intense sequel to The Tourist
. His handlers want Weaver to pursue a mole rumored...
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Olen Steinhauer. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-62289-3
Set in 2008, bestseller Steinhauer’s excellent if initially convoluted third thriller featuring Milo Weaver (after 2010’s The Nearest Exit) finds Weaver no longer a member of the CIA’s deeply clandestine Department of Tourism, which was shut down...
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Olen Steinhauer. Minotaur, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-03613-1
Like luxury watchmaker Franck Muller, Olen Steinhauer is the espionage “Master of Complications.” The Cairo Affair is an elegant, elaborate clockwork of mystery and deception that should draw readers in and keep them on tenterhooks as they try to...
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Olen Steinhauer. Minotaur, $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-04542-3
A quiet dinner for two in an almost-empty restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., provides the frame for this terrific standalone thriller from Steinhauer (The Cairo Affair). Henry Pelham has arrived from Europe for a meeting with his former lover...
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Olen Steinhauer. Minotaur, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-03617-9
This smart polemical thriller from bestseller Steinhauer (All the Old Knives) starts off strong, but loses its way. On June 18, 2017, hundreds of people around the U.S. get a call, then discard their phones, credit cards, IDs—and disappear. They are
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Olen Steinhauer, read by Ari Fliakos and Juliana Francis Kelly. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 5 CDs, 5.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-5809-0
Steinhauer’s new standalone thriller focuses on a couple meeting for lunch at a restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. Henry Pelham and Celia Favreau are former lovers who met as young CIA agents working together in Vienna in 2006, when militant...
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Olen Steinhauer, Author, Ned Schmidtke, Read by , read by Ned Schmidtke. Blackstone Audiobooks $35.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-2412-1
Schmidtke's reading of Steinhauer's debut is rich with subtle nuance, but his portrayal of the actual characters' voices, which are rarely graced with anything resembling an Eastern European accent, may strike listeners as off-key. Set...
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Olen Steinhauer, Author, Ned Schmidtke, Read by , read by Robertson Dean. Blackstone Audiobooks $35.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-2657-6
Ferenc Kolyeszar, the main character in this sharp tale of murder, political intrigue and human failings, is a large, disillusioned police inspector with a weakness for drink and cigarettes. Narrator Dean's naturally deep, gravelly voice works...
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Olen Steinhauer. Minotaur, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-03621-6
A decade ago, the CIA’s Department of Tourism, a corps of highly trained assassins, went defunct, but now something similar has emerged from its ruins in bestseller Steinhauer’s stunning fourth thriller featuring ex-CIA operative Milo Weaver (after...
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