Pretty Sinister Books

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten translated from Swedish by Marlaine Delargy Soho Press ISBN: 978-1-64129-011-1 185 p...

Horror enthusiasts, whether of the written word or the cinematic variety, may recognize the title I'm about to discuss.  Unless you...

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi Penguin Books ISBN: 978-0143128793 281 pp. $16 Publication date: January 23, 2018 For the ...

Quick! Give me the name of a Finnish novelist. Or any  writer from Finland. Aha! I thought so. Somehow Finland gets overlooked in the w...

The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker translated from the French by Sam Taylor Penguin Books ISBN: 978-0-14-3122668-...

While the first book the French writing team calling themselves Jacquemard-Sénécal wrote was in fact the second book they had published ( ...

"The John Dickson Carr of Sweden" proclaims the dust jacket of the first UK edition of Ättestupan (1975) translated as The Ance...

The paperback cover of this excellent crime novel from the "Agatha Christie of Japan" proclaims that it "recalls Stranger on ...

My knowledge of Japanese detective novel is limited, but if I am to believe what is written on the jacket blurbs of every Japanese mystery...

Final stop is Turkey on the whirlwind tour of crime fiction throughout Europe. I have selected Mehmet Murat Somer, a Turkish writer whose hi...

We’re in Italy this week as part of the Crime Fiction on EuroPass Challenge and I’ve picked a writer who has been described as "one of ...

Poul Ørum's intriguing book focuses on a Danish police investigation into the brutal murder of a nurse in the country side of West Jutla...

Hideous cover art! As you will learn from our good friend TomCat at his blog Detection by Moonlight A.C. Baantjer died one year ago t...