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Tokyo Zangyo by Michael Pronko

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9 September, 2021

Zangyo – or overtime – is what keeps the corporate wheels turning in Japan, and American author Michael Pronko’s newest novel, the fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series, examines the cost of this pressure to succeed. When a top-level manager at Senden Central is found…

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The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider

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30 July, 2021

Translated by Mike Mitchell — Basel is an icy city during the winter, situated in a corner of Switzerland just spitting distance from both France and Germany. It’s a different Switzerland to the ski slopes, Swiss watches and secretive banks; Basel is a snowbound city…

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Lady Joker, Volume 1 by Kaoru Takamura

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14 May, 2021

Translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida — Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura’s 1997 epic and the first of her novels to be translated into English, is part crime fiction and part social commentary. The publication in Japan came at a turning point in the…

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The Forger and the Thief by Kirsten McKenzie

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13 November, 2020

Set in Florence, Italy in the lead up the 1966 floods, The Forger and the Thief by Kirsten McKenzie sees five strangers in the Tuscan city, each loosely connected to an expert forger. World War II ended two decades ago, but it still seems fresh…

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The Pyramid by Henning Mankell – the real young Wallander

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4 September, 2020

Translated by Ebba Segerberg and Laurie Thompson — The Pyramid is Henning Mankell revisiting Wallander’s flawed past. In this collection of short stories, written over several years in the 1990s, Mankell fills in Wallander’s past, explains how he became the meticulous and dedicated detective we…

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Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko

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8 July, 2020

Tokyo is a city like any other, except much much bigger. By some counts it ranks as the world’s largest city, and it’s a place Michael Pronko knows well, as proven by his writing on the subject, which includes his detective Hiroshi mystery books. Tokyo…

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Snog, Marry, Murder by Zac Colbert

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26 May, 2020

Snog Marry Murder by Zac Colbert is a short punch of a crime novella that doesn’t take itself seriously, by an author who knows a lot about the occasionally overlapping worlds of crime fiction and television. And we should know because, full disclosure, he used…

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Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

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25 April, 2020

It was supposed to be a quiet weekend away for Jodie and her three friends, time away from their children, their husbands, their jobs, their whole lives back in the city. But it didn’t take long before everything started going wrong for Jodie and the…

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Tokyo Zangyo by Michael Pronko

The Basel Killings by Hansjörg Schneider

Lady Joker, Volume 1 by Kaoru Takamura

The Forger and the Thief by Kirsten McKenzie

The Pyramid by Henning Mankell – the real young Wallander

Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko

Snog, Marry, Murder by Zac Colbert

Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

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