12 crime, mystery and detective novels in translation to read this summer
The list spotlights translated titles that bring fresh settings and new voices to crime fiction, with several already published by major presses.
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12 crime, mystery and detective novels in translation to read this summer
There’s no mystery here: We all love a good detective novel. The genre, which arguably began with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” has since launched a worldwide crime wave. And while there are many great mysteries…
Last year, Heine Bakkeid moved the crime back home to Harstad and Kvæfjord. In this year's Vintergrav, he goes even closer to his home region – and lets the main character Lars get worse and worse.
Books are for the summer, especially fictional novels, to be enjoyed in readings without haste, in the sun or in the shade. Traveling through books is always a good choice and destino almost never disappoints. The novel is many times a good way to know remote places. Thus, in this proposal of titles for what is left of summer, you go from the wildest Iceland to an idyllic English neighborhood or fascist Italy to the current Madrid of museums and…
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