The celebrated Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulić has never been afraid to tackle convoluted subjects, break taboos and explore uncomfortable truths. Her latest novel, the third ab
Sometimes a very slim volume of prose has a huge impact, not only on its contemporary readers but also on a nation’s conscience in the ensuing years. This is especially true when
In the seclusion of a cloistered location in the Italian Alps, bloody violence is being done. Profiler and police inspector Theresa Battaglia finds herself drawn from her customary
Hundreds of anonymous corpses are found every year along the Spanish motorways. They belong to those who have sought and failed to find a better life in Europe. In his heartrending
The international footprint of the Czech Decadent movement is vanishingly indistinct, its phantasmagorical offerings a subject of interest mainly among academics. Even sophisticate
This is Katja Ivar’s first book – and the first in a projected series featurinh police sergeant Hella Mauzer. So far, so ordinary: but Evil Things is set in Finnish Lapland in
In his last novel (A Fine Line, see my review of May 2016), we left Carofiglio’s lawyer-hero Guido Guerrieri musing ruefully and bitterly on the ethics of the legal profession, a
The Queen of Icelandic crime, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, once acknowledged to this writer that she realised her imposing name did not readily roll off the tongues of English speakers, a
It’s difficult to name a single ‘calling card’ novel for Bernard Minier, so consistently accomplished is his work, but a strong entry point might be The Frozen Dead, with its
