Welcome to what I hope you will agree is another Christmas feast of #RivetingReviews! This is the time of year when reading something new and original can be the antidote to overin
Following on from his prize-winning debut in English, Red Water, this is the second novel by Jurica Pavičić from Bitter Lemon Press (once again admirably translated by Matt Robin
Joseph Incardona is a Swiss author, born in Italy and writing in French. He’s produced not only fifteen successful novels, but also scripts for theatre and cinema. Several of his
Marc Levy lives in New York City but writes in French – copiously! According to his website, he has sold fifty million books over the past twenty-six years, and he claims to be t
As I have remarked before in #RivetingReviews, one of the great pleasures of Italian crime novels in particular is the ability of their authors to reflect on issues that seem to ha
When I reviewed Karin Smirnoff’s first contribution to the post-Stieg Larsson Millennium novels starring Lisbeth Salander (The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons, #RivetingReviews, Dec
This is the fourth novel by Argentine writer Sergio Olguín to feature investigative journalist Verónica Rosenthal – all of them have been published in the UK by Bitter Lemon Pr
Jurica Pavičić lives in Split, where parts of this novel are set. He is known in Croatia for ‘his unorthodox thrillers … social analysis with deep insights into morally compl
The saying goes that “old soldiers never die – they merely fade away” and the same might well be said about old policemen: a sleuth will always be a sleuth, even if o
One of the pleasures of reading Italian crime novels is the ‘extras’ that their authors frequently drop into the text: little anecdotes about a person or place or time, which a
