It’s a pleasant Saturday morning. Matias wakes up with a rumbling in his tummy. The kind of rumbling that makes him head to the kitchen for toast. But when he approaches the kitchen and sees the back of a stranger there fear makes him come to a standstill. This stranger is a different kind of [&he
15th European Literature Days 16.–19.11.2023 in Krems-Stein an der Donau Animals and Other Humans is the headline theme of the European Literature Days 2023 +++ Festival opening with Michael Köhlmeier and Anne Sophie Meincke +++ Discussions and readings including with Teresa Präaue
I decided not to read up in advance about the subject of My Men, the woman know as America’s first female serial killer, as I felt that I wanted to appreciate the novel as a work of creative fiction without having any previous knowledge of what turned out to be shocking real events. The story, [&h
In his latest book, The Stranger in the Seine, faultlessly translated from the French by Rosie Eyre, Guillaume Musso takes the reader on a surprising journey full of apparently unrelated ideas, and creates a mystery that becomes murkier and darker as the book progresses, and changes from an unusual
Since the first Stella Blómkvist book was published in 2007 there have been twelve novels, as well as a popular television series featuring the author-protagonist. Nonetheless, the identity of the Icelandic author has remained an enigma, and continues to be so with the introduction of the straight-
Rummaging around for her keys, Andrada Vasiliu wishes she’d put them in the zippered pocket of her handbag. It turns out to be a fatal mistake, and her murder the start of a killing spree centred around the Carpathian city of Brașov with seemingly no connection between the victims. Gigi, the fore
