Paul Osborne is spiraling out of control. Full of drugs and booze and self-hate, he has washed up in Sydney, where he has a walk-up in Kings Cross, a bad case of sunstroke, and an even worse reputation at the local bars. But now his former boss from the Auckland City Police Department has tracked him down and wants Osborne back on the job. Jack Fitzgerald, a former colleague and Osborne’s only real friend on the force, has committed suicide in the middle of an important investigation. And despite his current state, Paul Osborne, once a tenacious detective, is the only one qualified to take over the investigation. Osborne has no interest in playing policeman anymore but returns to Auckland at the behest of his captain for one reason and one reason only: he’s sure that Jack Fitzgerald couldn’t have killed himself. An expert in Maori culture, Osborne retraces his dead friend’s steps into a world of occult mystery, tribal discontent, billion-dollar backroom deals, and political corruption in a search for the truth about Jack Fitzgerald. In the Maori language, “utu” means revenge. In this gripping crime novel, the desire for bloody revenge runs deep and far and nobody, innocent and guilty alike, will be safe until it has been sated.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Férey, Caryl

Mystery

Europa Editions

A Mapuche woman in Buenos Aires tries to solve a friend’s murder in this Prix Landerneau–winning crime novel by the acclaimed French author of Zulu. Twenty-eight-year-old Jana is a Mapuche, one of those indigenous “people of the earth” who were dispossessed when the Argentinean constitution turned them into outlaws overnight. A survivor of the Dirty War, Jana is now sculptor of a rare talent. But to make ends meet, she must also prostitute herself down at the docks. Her best friend, Miguel, a.k.a. Paula, is a transvestite who also works the docks. Jana and Miguel are connected, as if by a blood bond―so when Miguel disappears, it shatters Jana’s fragile world. Then the body of a transvestite is found emasculated at an abandoned port, La Boca. Jana turns to private investigator Rubén Calderón for help and protection. After serving time following the coup d’état of March 24, 1976, Calderón has been searching for any trace of los desaparecidos―the disappeared―and their odious tormentors. Together, Jana and Rubén will plunge into the corrupt heart of the Argentinean political system on a hunt for a vicious murderer.

Mapuche

Literature & Fiction

United States

As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress. He and his mother are the only members of his family that survived the carnage of those years and the psychological scars remain. Today, Neuman is chief of the homicide branch of the Cape Town police, a job in which he must do battle with South Africa’s two scourges: widespread violence and AIDS. When the mutilated corpse of a young white woman is found in the city’s botanical gardens, Neuman’s job gets even more difficult. He is chasing one false lead after another when a second corpse, again that of a white woman, is found. This time, the body bears signs of a Zulu ritual. A new evil has insinuated itself into this recently integrated city. And a new drug: traces of an unknown narcotic have been found in the blood of both victims. The investigation will take Neuman back to his homeland, where he will discover that the once bloody killing fields have become the ideal no-man’s land for unscrupulous multinationals, and that the apparatchiks of apartheid still lurk in the shadows and the back rooms of a society struggling toward reconciliation. Soon to be a major motion picture.

Zulu

Contemporary

Condor, c'est l'histoire d'une enquête menée à tombeau ouvert dans les vastes étendues chiliennes. Une investigation qui commence dans les bas-fonds de Santiago submergés par la pauvreté et la drogue pour s'achever dans le désert minéral de l'Atacama, avec comme arrière-plan l'exploitation illégale de sites protégés¿ Condor, c'est une plongée dans l'histoire du Chili. De la dictature répressive des années 1970 au retour d'une démocratie plombée par l'héritage politique et économique de Pinochet. Les démons chiliens ne semblent pas près de quitter la scène¿ Condor, c'est surtout une histoire d'amour entre Gabriela, jeune vidéaste mapuche habitée par la mystique de son peuple, et Esteban, avocat spécialisé dans les causes perdues, qui porte comme une croix d'être le fils d'une grande famille à la fortune controversée¿

Condor

Genre Fiction

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Utu: UN THRILLER CHEZ LES MAORIS

PLUTOT CREVER: UNE ENQUETE DE MC CASH

Фоліо

UTU: UN THRILLER CHEZ LES MAORIS

HAKA

Winner of the Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel of 2008, "Zulu" tells the storyof Ali Neuman, chief of the homicide branch of the Cape Town police, a job inwhich he must do battle with South Africa's two scourges: widespread violenceand AIDS.

MAPUCHE

Travel

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