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Looking for a good crime read? Our experts recommend these page-turners by writers from Italy, Japan, Israel, New Zealand and Finland.
Crime fiction’s place-specific exploration of justice seems ideally suited to Indigenous authors wanting to explore historical and contemporary issues.
Sus obras de ficción, de las que se vendieron más de 8 millones de ejemplares, bucearon en temas como el secreto y la traición, el peso del pasado y los límites del entendimiento intercultural.
Javier Marías has died at 70. His works of fiction, which sold over 8 million copies, mined themes such as secrecy and betrayal, the weight of the past and the limits of cross cultural understanding.
Many think of crime fiction as a predominantly English and American phenomenon, but the genre is thriving internationally, breaking rules and exploring pressing issues.
A new novel starring Lisbeth Salander has been written, despite creator Stieg Larsson’s death. But is it a continuation, adaption, or pale imitation? What gets lost when authorship changes hands?
Michael Robotham is the second Australian writer to win the Golden Dagger, but is his book Australian? And does it matter?
Not every crime novel needs a Jason Bourne. Mishani eschews the obvious world of Mossad agents and terrorist plots you might expect in an Israeli crime novel – and the results are thrilling.
Dictators dislike detective novels. Both fascist Italy and Nazi Germany outlawed crime fiction in 1941. The crime novel, according to the Italian Ministry of Popular Culture, weakened the health of the…
Crime novel covers are often plastered with endorsements: “A terrific read,” “A real page-turner,” or “Author Y is the next Author X.” It’s far less common to read quotes such as the following from Fairfax…
Detectives don’t walk down just any old mean street. They prefer them well trodden. London, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo are all favoured haunts for crime fiction writers. In Spain, the unchallenged capital…
Before Kurt Wallander, before Harry Hole, and before Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, the lone, towering figure of non-Anglo-American detective fiction was Maigret. Appearing in 75 novels and 28…
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