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November's Best New International Crime Fiction

A French speculative thriller, a gritty Colombian noir, and so many Scandinavian suspense novels...

Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend? November 2021

Brand new Korean thrillers and not so new but still very worthwhile Gabriel Byrne slow-burns.

A Crime Novelist's Mea Culpa

"I confess that in my novel there is a beautiful corpse, and that she is female. I may have chosen not to creepily linger on the details of her body as she lays on the slab at the morgue, but she is still there."

Harare, Zimbabwe: Writing Crime in a Tough Town

An African capital with turbulent politics and an impressive literary output.

October's Best International Crime Fiction

Nordic noir, French gothic, and a South Korean thriller

Switzerland: A Crime Writing Tradition Full of Holes?

When it comes to crime fiction set in Switzerland, it's all about secrecy.

We Know You Remember

Tove Alsterdal, translated by Alice Menzies

September's Best New International Crime Fiction

Scandinavian serial killers, French asylums, and Italian missed connections

Andrea Camilleri: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

A tour through Inspector Salvo Montalbano's Sicily and the life and works of an Italian mystery icon.

In Praise of the Slow-Burn Suspense of South and East Asian Thrillers

There's a new wave of thrillers coming out of South and East Asia, and they're radically different from their Western counterparts.

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