‘Argentine novelist Claudia Piñeiro's new book (published by Bitter Lemon Press and translated by Miranda France) shares some common ground with her previously translated All Yours (a death that may be accidental, a feuding couple, their troubled daughter) but A Crack in the Wall is a fuller and more interesting...

'If you read only one crime book in translation this year, make it this one, a book that grabs you from the start and whips along at pace - and in which the twists, unlike those in so many crime books, are credible. This is what people would do, you...