Can a romance novel be written as a crime novel? Like an exciting detection game with that genre "whodunit" question? It certainly can, judging by the tools used by Drago Hedl in the construction of this brilliant novel.
If we speak in film terminology (and the new Hedl's confessional prose is an ideal template for a film or television medium), The Time of Sex in the Age of Innocence is a successful sequel of his first novel Lower Drava Coast. With his superb skill and sparkling creative enthusiasm, Hedl avoided all the pitfalls of notorious sequels, those created by mechanical producer whims, and not out of real authorial need.
Drago Hedl’s *Osijek Picture Book* is a collection of newspaper essays and urban sketches about Osijek, its people, its streets, and everyday life. It is a witty and nostalgic chronicle of the city, its customs, and its changes.
Draga Hedl's Electoral Silence is a skilfully and intriguingly told story about the world of politicians and drug addicts, pedophiles and contract killers, dubious entrepreneurs and their murky businesses, and a callous society that does not show an iota
Naklada Ljevak, 2014.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
11.24 - 11.30 €
American literature • Detective Stories • Psychological novel
"Death in a Foreign Country" (1992), Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissioner Guido Brunetti series, is a detective story set in Venice that explores corruption, moral dilemmas, and the complexities of justice.
Izvori, 2005.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.26 - 3.46 €
American literature • Detective Stories • Thriller
Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. The novel spent one week atop The New York Times Best Seller List, and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since Exodus in 1959.
Otokar Keršovani, 1970.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
A year before he solved the Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon, a renowned Harvard symbologist, was summoned to the famous Swiss research institute CERN to decipher a cryptic symbol engraved on the chest of a murdered physicist.
VBZ, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.32 €
A philosophical novel • Detective Stories • Psychological novel • Serbian literature • Thriller
A Story of Karma is one of the most famous and best-selling novels by Božidar D. Benedikt, a pioneer of the “religious thriller.” The book is still considered Benedikt's most influential work – a cross between Dan Brown and Carlos Castaneda.