Who can write about sex like Émile Zola these days, as in his carnal and edgy Thérèse Raquin of 1867,…
barry forshaw
A frequently reiterated question (as this writer can attest) is: ‘When will the Nordic Noir boom be over?’ The answer…
Where to start with Dutch crime fiction? It’s a very rich and wide-ranging field – although largely unknown to English-speaking…
A toothsome slices of Nordic Noir, Fallen Angels by Gunnar Staalesen (translated by the matchless Don Bartlett) is proof positive…
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…
