There are few crime fiction aficionados who would deny that one of the most significant German crime writers was a…
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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.…
Filiberto Garcia is a worried man. He has successfully maintained his reputation as a ruthless assassin for many years, but…
Crime in translation may be achieving massive breakthroughs in the twenty-first century, but long before this trend, one writer was…
In I Remember You, Yrsa Sigurđardóttir drew on the heritage of Icelandic literature, channelling ancient folk tales and ghost stories…
I wonder how many British readers remember a time (as does this writer) when Ragnar Jónasson was an Icelandic writer…
The fact that Olivier Barde-Cabuçon’s Casanova and the Faceless Woman has been the recipient of France’s prestigious Prix Sangre d’Encre…
The influence of the late British Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, continues to this day – and in countries other…
The ascent of Thomas Enger – both in terms of critical approbation and sales – has been swift, but it…
