Mention the name Georges Simenon and it will instantly flash up another name: Maigret. And there, for many of us,…
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The sun beats down, and cold-hearted murder is done. The very individual, and more laid-back, approach to crime fiction in…
In Finnish writer Antti Tuomainen’s much-acclaimed third novel The Healer (2011), Helsinki is almost submerged under torrential rain, and the…
Just when Simenon aficionados were adding to their shelves the last couple of volumes of Penguin’s very welcome new translations…
Who can write about sex like Émile Zola these days, as in his carnal and edgy Thérèse Raquin of 1867,…
A frequently reiterated question (as this writer can attest) is: ‘When will the Nordic Noir boom be over?’ The answer…