A toothsome slices of Nordic Noir, Fallen Angels by Gunnar Staalesen (translated by the matchless Don Bartlett) is proof positive…
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Penguin’s Georges Simenon reissue programme put crime aficionados in their debt with such titles as The Man who Watched Trains…
Their influence on crime novels and cinema has been prodigious – so why isn’t the critical stock of Boileau &…
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…
