Ballistic by Frank Gardner
Well respected BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner is a man with his finger on the geopolitical pulse. His Luke Carlton thrillers have traversed issues and regions around the world and now with the fifth in the series, Ballistic, he is as topical as ever. The…
The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder by Erlander Arason
Translated by Quentin Bates — The Hotel Manager’s Guide to Murder is the first in a trilogy featuring detectives Hauker and Dagný. You may be familiar with the stories of the big London hotels that discreetly take care of everything for their guests, even the…
Skyring Water by Louis and Beau L’Amour
Before his death in 1988, Louis L’Amour was a legend in the Western genre for decades with bestsellers such as Last of the Breed, Hondo and Shalako. Many of his novels became films, some of them classics. While Westerns where what he was known for,…
Unemployed Killers Support Group by Rio
Translated by Vanessa Liu — Rio is a Taiwanese writer and artist and this is the first in her very successful manga series, which has already won awards across Europe and Asia. Curiously, Rio says there is no support group culture in Taiwan, so the…
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami
Translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio — There has been a small but rich vein of Japanese crime fiction translated into English for decades but it has grown in popularity recently. Some examples reflect classic the Golden Age of mystery reimagined for a Japanese…
The Murder Pool by Stella Blómkvist
Translated by Quentin Bates — Amazingly, the pseudonymous author Stella Blómkvist’s real identity remains a closely guarded secret. It’s a mystery that has lasted nearly three decades in Iceland and in all that time the character Stella has thrilled and delighted local readers. There even…