The widely acclaimed author of Winter Work brings together chilling crimes, the lies people live and the cold facts of international politics into a “deft and gripping [thriller]. Impeccably written and ably plotted.… The action is more or less nonstop.” (The New York Times Books Review).

Vlado Petric, a former homicide detective in Sarajevo, is now living in exile, and making a meagre living working...

Celebrated NPR personality and acclaimed author Scott Simon is an Emmy and Peabody Award winner. This astonishing novel is based on his experiences covering the siege of Sarajevo. Teenaged Irena and her parents are forced into hiding when Bosnian Serbs launch their war of ethnic cleansing against Muslims. But Tedic, a strong-willed Muslim man, convinces Irena to become a sniper and take up the defense of her home and people. A deadly chess game, Irena's...

Inspector Vlado Petric of the Sarajevo police investigates the murder of a police chief and discovers a racket in the smuggling of art treasures. Lots of authentic detail on wartime Sarajevo, the author having served as a war correspondent. A debut in fiction.

American photographer Steven Brings, fleeing painful memories of his kidnapped son, finds himself wandering through war-torn Sarajevo, where he photographs the embattled Bosnian people and falls in love with a German journalist.

"It's been eleven years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Now it's 1999 and, working as a journalist for a Toronto travel magazine, she hears about a film festival in Sarajevo, where she knows Kosmos will be with his theatre company. She takes the assignment to investigate the fallout of the Bosnian war - and to reconnect with the love of her life. But when they are reunited,...