If, like me, you've been addicted to Arne Dahl's BBC4 Intercrime adaptations, as well as The Killing and The Bridge, you've probably already torn through the books and you're hungry for more!
Never fear... I've had a look through the Booktrust archive of books and found these tasty crime thrillers in translation from all around the world to whet your appetite.
These books will take you deep into Scandinavia, to the heady heights of Havana, Cuba to Italy and beyond.
For fans of Arne Dahl
If, like me, you've been addicted to Arne Dahl's BBC4 Intercrime adaptations, as well as The Killing and The Bridge, you've probably already torn through the books and you're hungry for more!
Never fear... I've had a look through the Booktrust archive of books and found these tasty crime thrillers in translation from all around the world to whet your appetite.
These books will take you deep into Scandinavia, to the heady heights of Havana, Cuba to Italy and beyond.
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A Walk in the Dark
Bitter Lemon PressGuido Guerreri is getting himself in trouble again: this time risking the wrath of all the vested interests and violent machismo of the southern Italian city in which he works, in order to help a woman battered by her well-connected... -
No Sale
Bitter Lemon PressSet in Antwerp and translated from Flemish, No Sale is a nifty little thriller that manages to both capture the essence of classic crime fiction and be strikingly original. -
The Water's Edge
VintageThe Water's Edge is a gripping psychological novel from a highly skilled crime writer, with an outstanding translation by Charlotte Barslund. -
Jar City
VintageA man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl's grave. -
The Stonecutter
Harper CollinsThe remote resort of Fjallbacka has seen its share of tragedy, though perhaps none worse than that of the little girl found in a fisherman's net. But the post-mortem reveals that this is no accidental drowning! -
The Cutting Season
Serpent's TailContemporary Louisiana can't escape its slave trade past in Orange Prize-shortlisted author Attica Locke's second novel. -
Havana Red
Bitter Lemon PressOn 6 August 1989 the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration, the body of a strangled transvestite is discovered in the humid undergrowth of the Havana Woods. -
A Shortcut to Paradise
Bitter Lemon PressIt’s perfect tabloid fodder right from the start in this wickedly funny and scathingly brilliant Catalonian crime novel. -
The Chalk Circle Man
VintageJean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme.
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