Bitter Lemon bring you high quality, award-winning contemporary crime fiction and eclectic non-fiction books. These are gripping crime books that expose the darker side of foreign places. From mystery books to psychological thriller books, they explore what lies just beneath the surface of the bustling life of countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Belgium, France and Italy. From Argentina to Australia, these crime fiction books are for your travels - whether real or imaginary.
Wilmington Square Books are a collection of non-fiction books about culture and society, chosen for their originality, their quality and their contribution to knowledge and debate.
Daylight is No Shield: Katja Ivar Interview in PW--December 2022
In Trouble, Ivar’s third outing for Hella Mauzer, set in the early 1950s, the Finnish PI seeks the truth about some deaths in her family’s past.
What about Cold War Finland intrigued you? The era is fascinating, because that’s when our contemporary world took shape, really. And Finland was such an interesting place, because it had a very long border with the Soviet Union that’s very hard to monitor. I wanted the tension from that geopolitical context, which plays a big role.
Join the thrilling world of suspense with this eclectic collection of mystery books and crime books from Bitter Lemon Press. Discover gripping crime fiction, thrillers and mysteries, detective books, crime stories and page-turning books you simply won’t be able to stop reading. From the famous "The Sinner" dramatised in the US and the UK as a TV series of the same name starring Jessica Biel, by way of suspense espionage thrillers like "Beside the Syrian Sea" by James Wolff, to subtle psychological thrillers like "Summer of Reckoning"by Marion Brunet, there’s something for every crime book and mystery book reader.