Our authors of crime fiction, thrillers and mysteries, detective books, crime stories and page-turning books.
Iain Levison has worked as a truck driver and an Alaskan crab fisherman, and kept down a number of other wage-slave jobs before settling down to write dark, funny crime novels with a social bite. Bitter Lemon Press published his noir thriller Dog Eats Dog in 2008. Three of his novels were adapted into films in France, including Dog Eats Dog, which was released in 2022 as “Canailles”. Iain Levison currently resides in Southampton (UK).
Ernesto Mallo, a former anti-junta militant in Argentina, has written his first novel...
Matsumoto (1909-1992) is a ‘Japanese immortal’, considered to have written the best Japanese mystery novels of the 20th century. The Japanese Simenon many say.
Patricia Melo is Brazil's best selling crime writer.
Zygmunt Miłoszewski, born in Warsaw in 1975, is a rising star of Polish fiction. This is his first novel published in English...
Gianluca Morozzi was born in Bologna in 1971, where he lives today. His most recent titles include "L'era del porco" and "Blackout", his first roman noir...
Quentin Mouron is a poet and a novelist. He was born in Lausanne in 1989 and is Swiss and Canadian. He has written three other highly acclaimed novels before Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine.
Anita Nair is one of India’s most acclaimed authors whose oeuvre ranges from literary fiction to noir to poetry to children’s literature. Her
books have been translated into thirty-two languages around the world
and have been adapted for audio, the stage and the screen.
Saskia Noort is a best selling author.'The Dinner Club', published in English by Bitter Lemon Press in 2007, has sold over 500,000 copies in the Netherlands. 'Back to the Coast' sold over 250,000 copies.
Sergio Olguín was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and was a journalist before turning to fiction. Olguín has won a number of awards, among others the Premio Tusquets 2009.
Riku Onda, born in 1964, won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders. This was her first crime novel and the first time she was translated into English. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2020.
'Nights of Awe' features Ariel Kafka, Helsinki's only Jewish homicide cop. First of a series by Harri Nykanen.