Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along. (India)

Marcus, an elderly doctor mourning the death of his Afghani wife and searching for his missing daughter and grandson, opens his home in Afghanistan to different houseguests with clashing ideologies and dangerous ambitions. (Afghanistan)

The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Renée Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu. (France)

Given the difficult task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by her problematic personal life, her colorful and diverse staff, and the difficult patients they serve. (Ireland)

Irascible Dublin pathologist Quirke gets in over his head when an old acquaintance asks him to investigate the apparent suicide of his young wife, Deirdre Hunt, and Quirke uncovers some dangerous secrets that had been better off hidden. (Ireland)

When the CIA is tipped off that one of its most wanted men is going to be in Bologna, Italy, Ferg and the Team are tasked to go in and apprehend him at any cost. (Italy)

Recently retired CIA operative Ryan Kealey heads back into action when the president asks for his assistance to help resolve the brutal hijacking of a busload of Western adventurers in Pakistan, followed by the abduction of the U.S. Secretary of State. (Afghanistan)

In this fifth Inspector Sejer mystery, a little girl has vanished without a trace and Sejer must find her before it’s too late. (Norway)

Disappearing a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her young son is placed in foster care, Jeannie sends a letter to an anonymous journalist detailing the factors that shaped her three-decade life in Turkey.(Turkey)

In 1937 Warsaw, on the eve of World War II, intelligence operatives on both sides of the forthcoming struggle wage their own espionage battle in a world of betrayal, intrigue, and abduction. (Poland)

Admiral Yamamoto struggles with the discovery that his government failed to formally declare war on America prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, while Admiral Halsey prepares for a decisive counter-strike. (Japan)

Sent to Spain to prevent a murder, Archbishop John Blackwood “Blackie” Ryan protects a beautiful widow from avaricious relatives who would seize control of her fortune, an effort that is further complicated by dramatic events back in his Chicago home. (Spain)

A long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling Chocolat finds Vianne assuming a low-profile new identity in Paris, where she opens a chocolaterie and hopes to escape the ghosts of her past before a devious new friend threatens everything she has worked for. (France)

Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man carrying a large amount of cash, forms an alliance with Annabel, a civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror. (Germany)

A tale set in modern Beijing follows a detective’s search for a missing artifact, in a case that illuminates less-favorable aspects of Chinese culture and the detective’s own family during the Cultural Revolution. (China)

Former Latin teacher Raimund Gegorius boards the night train to Lisbon, carrying with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, with whose work he becomes obsessed, and journeys all over the city in search of the truth about the author. (Portugal)

Maggie Chamberlin, an American actress, travels all the way to Australia in 1887 on the promises of a scoundrel and meets Reeve McKenna, an Irishman who has become one of the richest men in Australia. (Australia)

Twenty years after her brother is hounded from his home by rumors about his alleged role in a young girl’s disappearance, Lisa and her security guard friend become increasingly curious about a child they glimpse on a mall’s surveillance cameras. (England)

Omar Yussef, a history teacher at a UN school in the West Bank, manages to stay away from all the violence surrounding him, until a former pupil, George Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis, is charged with murder, and Omar, unable to believe in his guilt, decides to investigate the case for himself. (Israel)

After her mother’s death, anthropologist Susannah Connolly travels to the French Camargue to investigate a saint linked to her family’s history, but her life is changed by an encounter with a lonely man and his wounded daughter. (France)

Sailing the eastern coast of England with his godson, one-hundred-year-old H remembers his privileged teenage exploits at the side of unlikely childhood companion Finn, whose significantly different lifestyle enchants H before the pair is shattered by a painful scandal. (England)

Investigating the suspicious death of a journalist in Moscow, Gabriel Allon learns of the machinations of a former KGB colonel whose covert arms dealing business is part of a larger plot to challenge the global dominance of the United States. (Russia)

When a terminally ill woman is found brutally murdered in her home, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef tracks a terrifying serial killer, who targets terminally ill victims whose bodies are found drained of blood with their mouths sculpted into strange shapes. (Canada)