William John Banville, who writes as John Banville and Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist and screenwriter who is recognized for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, and his dark humor. His novel…

Now it's time for a classic from an extremely notable author from Sweden: Kerstin Ekman, the Swedish crime novelist and the author of a string of successful novels ranging from detective to psychological thrillers.…

Thanks to the author and marketing team for the book, we are now giving away 3 copies of the mystery novel "The Flatey Enigma " by the Icelandic author Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson.…

James Rollins is the pen name of American veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski who is a writer of best-selling, adventure-thriller series such as Sigma Force. Thanks to the wild success of his books, he gave up his veterinary practice in…

Norwegian Crime Fictions are not simple copycats of the more well-known Swedish versions; they have the atmosphere and spirits of their own. From Jo Nesbø to Karin Fossum, the country has introduced a long list of high quality writers to the world in the last 30 years.

What comes next is a compilation of 10…

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym for Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written six critically acclaimed literary novels which have been…

Jassy Mackenzie is the South African author of Jade De Jong series, a private eye set of stories centered around the main character Jade.

She was born in Rhodesia (as all ex-Zimbabweans still prefer to call it), and moved to South Africa when she was eight years old.…

The new debut "The Cop With the Pink Pistol " written by broadcast veteran Gray Basnightis now making his mark in print. Published by Ransom Note Press, the novel…

Jonathan Hayes, a veteran forensic pathologist, has been a New York City medical examiner, performing autopsies and testifying in murder trials, since 1990. A former contributing editor at Martha Stewart Living, Hayes has written for the New York Times, GQ, and Food & Wine.…

These days, it's hard to find a crime fiction which doesn't include a serial killer: A single death might seem to boring or insignificant to shape a novel around. But in most of these novels, the character of serial killer is just one element in the story and not the biggest part of the plot.

Therefore we looked at the books we have read during the…

In the case you have not read any Japanese crime fiction or thriller so far, we suggest you take a look at "The Thief " by Fuminori Nakamura. Born in 1977 and graduated…

David Dickinson, the Irish author of Lord Francis Powerscourt series. With a first-class degree in Classics from Cambridge, he worked in British television (BBC) for many years and was the editor of Newsnight and Panorama as well as Monarchy. He now divides his time between Somerset and France writing his…

Stephen Gallagher is the English writer of several novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate (1981) and Terminus (1983).  He is also very active in crime fiction area and…

Alan Glynn is an Irish writer born in 1960 in Dublin and is the author of four novels, from which the first one The Dark Fields (2001) was made into a film in 2011 by Neil Burger as Limitless . Alan’s another notable work is Winterland which was published in 2009 and is a thriller with a compelling story. (Check out…

Andrew Kaplan is best known for his spy thriller novels featuring a former operative code-named Scorpion. He worked as a freelance journalist and war correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and has also served in the army. His new novel…

Although many of the folks who saw "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" featuring Daniel Craig liked the movie; they liked the original Swedish version as much if not more. We guess the same holds with Wallander.

I was fascinated when I watched Henning Mankell struggling detective on TV on PBS channel. Kenneth Branagh did a great job of portraying the character as it…

Deborah Crombie is a familiar name among fans of police procedural novels. A native of Texas, she lived in England for several years and the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series is a result of her British life experience. As a three-time Macavity Award winner and an Edgar Award nominee, her novels have got attention by New York Times and LA Time and one of her books…

Swedish Crime Fiction would not have been what it is today without Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. A common-law wife and husband team of detective writers from Sweden, they conceived and wrote a series of ten novels (police procedurals) about the exploits of detectives from the special homicide commission of the national police in which the character of Martin…

Woman with Birthmark (or in Swedish "Kvinna med födelsemärke") is a 1996 novel by Håkan Nesser, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in the same year.…