KindleReviews

NTN: Dead White by Gwen Parrot

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There is a thriving interest in crime fiction translated from Swedish, Danish, Nowegian and Icelandic too. From the French and Japanese, we say ‘more please.’ But what about from British languages like Welsh and Gaelic? After all, with its storytelling traditions Celtic culture is full…
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Book Club

The Decagon House Murders

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Author Yukito Ayatsuji is part of a group that advocates the use of SS Van Dine’s set of ‘rules’ when it comes to writing crime novels. They’re not followed much by English writers anymore, but Japanese readers have a taste for Golden Age-style crime. Consequently,…
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Features

Classics in September 2015 - a recap

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It’s been a nice autumn so far, and hopefully we’ve managed to make it even more glorious for you with our theme month, Classics in September. Each September, we like to remember the finest crime fiction books and authors of years gone by and celebrate…
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Features

CIS: June Wright, Australia's queen of crime

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“Our very own Agatha Christie,” claims a quote from the Sydney Morning Herald on the cover of June Wright’s Duck Season Death, written in 1955 but only just published. In post-war Australia, June Wright’s mystery novels famously outsold even Christie’s, and yet by Wright’s death…
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Book Club

Snowblind

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Our thirst for Scandinavian gloom, death and despair remains unquenched. Ragnar Jónasson takes us to the bleak and suitably isolated town of Siglufjörđur, about as far north-west as it is possible to go in Iceland without falling into the icy waters of the Denmark Strait….
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