The celebrated Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulić has never been afraid to tackle convoluted subjects, break taboos and explore uncomfortable truths.…

February 2019
Sometimes a very slim volume of prose has a huge impact, not only on its contemporary readers but also on…
On a cold and wintry February day twenty-four soberly suited men gather in the glittering surroundings of an official residence…
In the seclusion of a cloistered location in the Italian Alps, bloody violence is being done. Profiler and police inspector…
Hundreds of anonymous corpses are found every year along the Spanish motorways. They belong to those who have sought and…
The international footprint of the Czech Decadent movement is vanishingly indistinct, its phantasmagorical offerings a subject of interest mainly among…
This is Katja Ivar’s first book – and the first in a projected series featurinh police sergeant Hella Mauzer. So…
In his last novel (A Fine Line, see my review of May 2016), we left Carofiglio’s lawyer-hero Guido Guerrieri musing…
The Queen of Icelandic crime, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, once acknowledged to this writer that she realised her imposing name did not…
It’s difficult to name a single ‘calling card’ novel for Bernard Minier, so consistently accomplished is his work, but a…
We’re back after our hiatus, during which we celebrated our winter festivals and spread the love about all things #LiterallySwiss…