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A selection of recent and must-read translated crime fiction
Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray (trans.)
From Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino, who has sold over a million copies in Japan, The Final Curtain is the fourth and final instalment in the Detective Kaga series
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Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa (trans.)
Good father or good assassin? Can he be both?: From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train.
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Hideo Yokoyama, Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)
The new title from the author of Six Four, in which a down-at-heel architect must solve a beguiling mystery
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Maud Ventura, Emma Ramadan (trans.)
A dangerously charming French thriller about a woman's obsession for her husband
Javier Cercas, Anne McLean (trans.)
The second Terra Alta Investigation - a new crime series by one of Europe's leading writers
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Un-su Kim, Sora Kim-Russell (trans.)
A darkly funny noir thriller and a fascinating moral tale about power and corruption in Korean society, filled with betrayals, power struggles and effortlessly smooth assassinations
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Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (trans.)
A classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House Murders
Jo Nesbo, Sean Kinsella (trans.)
He'll get inside your head. You've never seen a killer like this. Neither have the police. And for Detective Harry Hole, this time it's personal.
Yun Ko-Eun, Lizzie Buehler (trans.)
A satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility.
Lars Kepler, Alice Menzies (trans.)
If you see his reflection it's already too late … The gripping new crime novel from global thriller writing phenomenon, Lars Kepler.
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Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith (trans.)
A bank robber chased by the police ran into a company that had many customers coming to buy and sell houses. All customers have become hostages. Before the death, the…
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Jorn Lier Horst, Anne Bruce (trans.)
The Night Man, the inspiration for the second series of BBC Four's Wisting, sees the detective return to face a terrifying killer with a horrifying calling card...
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Victoria Cribb (trans.)
Detective Huldar and psychologist Freyja are once again working together to solve a mysterious case in this incredible new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of The Doll and Gallows…
Olga Tokarczukm Antonia Lloyd-Jones (trans.)
A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
Kevin Chen, Darryl Sterk (trans.)
A mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures.
Seicho Matsumoto, Jesse Kirkwood (trans.)
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast’s wind and cold, the police see nothing…
Their mission is murder. His is revenge.
Hakan Nesser, Sarah Death (trans.)
A dysfunctional family go into meltdown when two members go missing one snowy night.
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The Lonely Ones follows the mystery of two couples who die thirty-five years apart in the exact same spot.
Kaoru Takamura, Allison Mark Powell (trans.), Marie Iida (trans.)
One of Japan's great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura's breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusion.
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Seishi Yokomizo, Yumiko Yamazaki (trans.)
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan’s greatest crime writers.
Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boehm (trans.)
Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder?
Anne Mette Hancock, Tara Chace (trans.)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this internationally bestselling thriller, for fans of Jo Nesbo and Henning Mankell.
Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (trans.)
The fourth novel in Andrea Camilleri’s savagely funny, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano
Zijin Chen, Michelle Deeter (trans.)
A dark Chinese suspense thriller about teenage accountability, where no one is innocent, for fans of Keigo Higashino.
Herve le Tellier, Adriana Hunter (trans.)
If there are two of you, and just one life - who gets to live it?
Hideo Yokoyama, Jonathan Lloyd-Davies (trans.)
The million-selling Japanese crime sensation, now in paperback.
Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-Young Kim (trans.)
A whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness
A Terra Alta novel. Winner of Spain’s biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta
Seishi Yokomizo, Bryan Karetnyk (trans.)
Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the sixteenth century eight samurai, who had taken refuge there along…
Fuminori Nakamura, Sam Bett (trans.)
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?
Laurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker (trans.)
Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party is a gripping tale of…
Arnaldur Indridason, Victoria Cribb (trans.)
A spin-off from international bestseller Indridason’s critically acclaimed Reykjavic-set novel, The Shadow District.
Ragnar Jonasson, Victoria Cribb (trans.)
Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive …
Keigo Higashino. Giles Murray (trans.)
The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino - a twisty, compelling and satisfying mystery with a vivid sense of…
Five killers find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Kimura’s young son is in a coma thanks to Satoshi, and he’s tracked…
Riku Onda, Alison Watts (trans.)
A desolate apartment in a Japanese city, a man and a woman about to spend their last night together. Each believes the other to be a killer, and is determined…
A classic Japanese murder mystery inspired by the golden age of British crimewriting.
Arnaldur Indridason, Philip Roughton (trans.)
An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she’s been smuggling drugs, and now she’s gone missing.
Seishi Yokomizo, Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)
Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the fiendish Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of all the great Seishi Yokomizo's classic Japanese mysteries.
Soji Shimada, Ross Mackenzie (trans.)
A bestselling and internationally-acclaimed masterpiece of the locked-room mystery genre
Barbara Abel, Susan Pickford (trans.)
Mothers’ Instinct is a dark, twisty domestic thriller in which the bond between two couples — best friends and next-door neighbors — mutates in dangerous and deadly ways in the…
Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (trans.)
From the bestselling Japanese author of The Devotion of Suspect X comes Malice, the most acclaimed novel in Higashino’s outstanding Detective Kaga series.
Ranpo Edogawa, Ian Hughes (trans.)
A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction
A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind…
Juan Gomez-Jurado, Nick Caistor (trans.)
Red Queen is the launch of Juan Gomez-Jurado’s internationally bestselling serial killer thriller trilogy which has become a literary phenomenon in Spain
Soji Shimada, Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)
The sequel to the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders - a fiendish locked room mystery from the Japanese master of the genre
One of Japan’s great modern writers, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with Lady Joker, the million copy bestselling Japanese phenomenon.
Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder (trans.)
Vintage Japanese Classics - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list
