Reviews for Rage by Sergio Bizzio
'A slow descent into the mind of a stalker is a great way to Sergio Bizzio's RAGE, from Bittler Lemon Press. José Maria is a 40-year-old man infatuated with a... Read More
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Reviews for David's Revenge by Hans Werner Kettenbach
'German school teacher Christian Kestner is shocked to receive a letter from Tbilisi with the civil war going on even though it took four weeks to arrive. David Ninoshvili asks... Read More
Reviews for The Public Prosecutor by Jef Geeraerts
'Eleven years after its original publication, Jef Geeraerts' THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR hits our shores in translated form. The novel is steeped in the world of political intrigue, with blackmail taking... Read More
Reviews for Back to the Coast by Saskia Noort
'Two bestselling novels from Holland, both about women threatened by stalkers, suggest that Dutch crime writing is enjoying a renaissance. Saskia Noort's first novel, Back to the Coast (translated by... Read More
Reviews for Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura
2009's bumper crop of crime fiction. 'Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura (Bitter Lemon Press) Mario Conde has retired from the Havana police department and is buying and selling old books.... Read More
Reviews for A Not So Perfect Crime by Teresa Solana
'Murder and mayhem in Barcelona' is an understatement. Teresa Solana's book A Not So Perfect Crime may be full of murder and mayhem, but it's also packed full of humour,... Read More
Reviews for The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex
'I get a special kick out of that authorial magic that updates an old genre while remaining chillingly true to its time-honored form. In Jacques Chessex's The Vampire of Ropraz,... Read More
Reviews for Crimini by Niccolo Ammaniti and others
'This is a gem of a book. An anthology of nine contemporary short stories written by a selection of Italy's leading modern crime writers. The collection contains a huge diversity... Read More
Reviews for Blackout by Gianluca Morozzi
'Anyone suffering from claustrophobia is likely to find Blackout by Gianluca Morozzi a disturbing read. Three people get into a lift in a building on the outskirts of Bologna. Sixteen-year-old... Read More
Reviews for Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher
'Kittyhawk Down, the second in the Hal Challis/Ellen Destry series of police procedurals set in the fictional Old Peninsula district in southern Victoria, Australia, is even better than the first,... Read More
Reviews for Dog Eats Dog by Iain Levison
'In New Jersey Phil Dixon thought the bank robbery would go over smooth so how he wonders why did it go so wrong. He flees the Garden State with a... Read More
Reviews for Havana Gold by Leonardo Padura
'Cuban police detective Mario "The Count " Conde still feels "solidarity with writers, crazy people, and drunkards, " but his melancholy seems to be seeping even deeper into his soul... Read More