Allen Mattich. House of Anansi/Spiderline (PGW/Perseus, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-77089-108-1
Mattich's marvelous neo-noir debut begins in 1991. Balkan war is in the air, the weather is grim, and Marko Della Torre is in the backseat of a Mercedes saloon, sandwiched between Elvis-lookalike Bosnian hit men, on his way to a shallow grave. Marko
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Alen Mattich. House of Anansi/Spiderline (PGW/Perseus, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $15.95 trade paper (440p) ISBN 978-1-77089-109-8
Mattich's excellent second Balkan thriller is less darkly humored than the first, Zagreb Cowboy, but richer in moral complexities. It's August 1991, the beginning of the end of days for Yugoslavia. Croatia and Slovenia have declared very shaky...
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Alen Mattich. House of Anansi/Spiderline (PGW/Perseus, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $15.95 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-1-77089-437-2
The third installment in Mattich's superb Marko della Torre series picks up where Killing Pilgrim ended, with the discovery of CIA agent Rebecca Vees's body in the Adriatic. It's autumn 1991. Croatia declares its independence from the remains of...
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