The series of Detective Kurt Wallander books by the late Henning Mankell are notable for a variety of elements, apart…
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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…
An inexplicable pattern of vandalism is happening across the German city of Hamburg. Every night, vehicles are being torched. Is…
When I met the Swedish master Henning Mankell shortly before his death, the subject of his mortality came up, as…
In Ormberg, Hanne Lagerlind-Schön practises as a psychological profiler and has proved adept at disinterring cold cases. Her most profound…
There are few crime fiction aficionados who would deny that one of the most significant German crime writers was a…
For the alert follower of crime novelists writing in languages other than English, the name Guillaume Musso has been on…
As someone who has written several books on the subject, one of the questions I am most frequently asked is:…
The title may be cheekily borrowed from Strindberg, but The Dance of Death is (as usual with Bottini) a wholly…
I have to confess that I was a little unsure at first how my meeting with Leonardo Padura might go.…
