Their influence on crime novels and cinema has been prodigious – so why isn’t the critical stock of Boileau &…
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To say that Michel Bussi’s After the Crash made a considerable mark is to understate the case. The highly original…
Literary success stories can have strange beginnings. After Eugen Chirovici came to England from his native Romania, it took only…
The remarkable success Sébastien Japrisot achieved with his highly engaging crime novels in his native France (where he was called…
How easy is it to reinvigorate a shopworn formula? One way is to shoot each familiar effect full of adrenalin.…
First of all: don’t trust the name. Fred Vargas, one of the most acclaimed of all current European crime writers,…
Those who read Scandinavian crime fiction have not been surprised at the revelations of violent neo-Nazi movements in the Nordic…
Åsa Larsson is a markedly different writer from her fellow Swede Camilla Läckberg (discussed elsewhere on this site), with her…
The series of Detective Kurt Wallander books by the late Henning Mankell are notable for a variety of elements, apart…
The Norwegian writer Kjell Ola Dahl deserves attention – as strong novels such as The Last Fix (2000) have amply…
Those who enjoyed the compelling and astringent Mercy will be pleased to know that we are back in the lively…
The once-invisible, pseudonymous couple who together comprise ‘Lars Kepler’ are no longer a mystery. After the immense success of their…
