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Chennai: Crime Writing in a South Indian Megalopolis
The megalopolis of Chennai Formerly known as Madras, and capital of Tamil-Nadu, the most southerly state of India on the Coromandel Coast. India’s sixth biggest city with over 12 million people. Home...
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Writing with a Mask: Language and Authenticity In Literature
Authenticity is a big issue in literature. Who wants to read a fake? Nadie. Nobody! Now, when discussing English texts, the topic of authenticity tends to focus on how to express in this language...
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Bordeaux, City of Wine and Crime Fiction
Sitting majestically on the Garonne River in southwestern France, capital of the country’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, with approximately a million “Bordelais” (masculine) or “Bordelaises” (feminine) in...
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The Highlands Noir of Inverness
The city of the Highlands, located on Scotland’s dramatic northeast coast, where the River Ness meets the Moray Firth. 65,000 or so folk but apparently one of northern Europe’s fastest growing cities...
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Nassau and the Bahamas: Death in Paradise
Funky Nassau – capital of the Bahamas, beauty spot of the Caribbean, a British colony until 1973. Officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, it is comprised of around 700 islands (though only 30 are...
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Tijuana: Crime Fiction in the Borderlands
Seems things can be fun in Tijuana, Mexico – TJ to the initiated – but things can also go very, very wrong. Of course a popular destination being right on the US-Mexico border, with two million people,...
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Ken Bruen, the Dark Soul of Irish Crime Fiction
Over the course of seventeen Jack Taylor novels, Ken Bruen’s most celebrated creation has endured the following (small sample size, too): extreme hangovers, numerous beatings, the deaths of close...
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The Best International Fiction of March 2024
Crime novels in translation were few and far between for the first two months of 2024, but March brings with it a deluge of mysteries and thrillers from across the globe. Below, you’ll find five...
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Teresa Dovalpage On Capturing Havana’s Past and Present Through Fiction
Last Seen in Havana, a suspenseful addition to Teresa Dovalpage’s Havana Mystery series, was released by Soho Press in February 2024. The novel, which takes place in Havana poignantly captures the...
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The Best International Crime Fiction of April 2024
Each month, CrimeReads/me celebrates the art of the translated novel with a roundup of the best new international crime fiction releases. The list below is divided between horror, thrillers, dystopia,...
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G’day, From An Apparently Terrifying Continent
Would the real Australia please stand up? Are you a tropical paradise of blue skies and golden beaches, the Great Barrier Reef, koalas and kangaroos? Or are you the perilous continent of venomous...
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The Exploits and Exploitation of Indian Street Magic, Jadoo
From ancient times, India has had a rich tradition of magic, active and thriving even today. Lord Indra, Hindu God of the heavens, who wields the power to control thunder and lightning, is also...
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The Best International Crime Fiction of May 2024
I should really have titled this column “The Best International Crime Fiction of May Plus One From April and One From Last Year”: mistakes were made in my reading preparations, and when you read...
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Crime and the City: Adelaide and South Australia
The first time I went to Adelaide the first thing everybody told me about the city was its specifically non-criminal antecedents. Adelaide, I was repeatedly told, is the major Australian city not...
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June’s Best International Crime Fiction
There’s only one truly new novel in this month’s crop of international crime fiction—the others are all reissues, some translated for the first time, and others back in print for the first time in...
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Great Novels of Subtle Espionage
I recently read an old handbook from the Metropolitan Police that advises its undercover officers to avoid suspicion by entering into “fleeting, disastrous relationships.” I have so many questions...
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The Crime Fiction of Montevideo
Montevideo – the capital and largest city of Uruguay. Home to a million and a half people – about a third of Uruguay’s total population. Sitting majestically on the southern coast of the country, on...
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Turin: The Dark and Foggy Crimes of the Po Valley
If there’s an all-business town in Italy then it’s Turin. Capital of Piedmont, northern Italy, it sits impressively on the Po River. Just under two million inhabitants in the wider urban area. Like...
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Ibiza: Crime, Mystery, and Hedonism on the ‘White Island’
Summer’s here and if you’re young, fun and into banging tunes then the isle of Ibiza, “the White Island”, in the Spanish Balearic Islands, may be the holiday destination for you. From sleepy...
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Crime Fiction in Sweden’s Fastest Growing City: Malmö
Malmö is Sweden’s third largest city and the sixth largest Nordic conurbation, but also Sweden’s fastest growing city right now, partly due to immigration and its bustling port city atmosphere. And...
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