The latest news about our gripping crime fiction, thrillers and mysteries, detective books, crime stories and page-turning books.
Our Christmas Newsletter is out. Katja Ivar's trilogy about the headstrong Finnish detective Hella Mauzer is featured. Finland in the 1950s engaged in a precarious high-wire act, playing off the Western victors of WWII and the Soviet Union hunkered down on its eastern border: whodunnits and political thrillers of the highest order.
The End of the Sahara by Said Khatibi, translated from the Arabic by Alexander Elinson, selected as one of '10 Noir Novels to Kill For' by The Markaz Review. Available from Bitter Lemon Press in February 2026.
Times/ Sunday Times picks Red Water by Croatian novelist Jurica Pavicic as the crime novel of the year.
News about Red Water by Jurica Pavicic. A new international multi-award winning thriller. See LINK
Tune in to Cold Summer – airing on Channel 4 at midnight on Sundays for eight weeks from 13 April, and available to stream on Walter Presents. But don’t expect sunny beaches and azure waters. In the shadows of the city a mafia war is brewing. Standing in the way of the gangsters is Pietro Fenoglio played by Alessio Boni. The LINK
Crime Fiction Lover publishes an interview with Jurica Pavicic, author of the prize-winning novel Red Water, out this month. See LINK.
French author Marion Brunet has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s biggest international children’s and young adult literature prize. In a joint announcement LINK from Stockholm and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, judges praised Brunet for her “shimmering and crystal-clear prose". Brunet has had only two titles translated into English – Vanda and Summer of Reckoning, both published by Bitter Lemon Press in Katherine Gregor’s translation. The latter title was shortlisted for the 2020 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger.
See the LINK to our March newsletter. Veronica Rosenthal, the intrepid Buenos Aires investigative reporter, is back in another international murder mystery. The Best Enemy, by Sergio Olguin, is just out. "After tearing through The Best Enemy, I know I’ll be reading the three earlier instalments immediately." Sarah Weinman, New York Times
In this interview Sergio talks to CFL about his latest novel The Best Enemy, its protagonist Veronica and more. Like the book, this piece was translated by Miranda France.
Runaway Horses by Fruttero & Lucentini. Out Now: LINK
