Breaking up is never easy, but when you suspect your partner of murder, it becomes a safety issue. In Riku Onda’s atmospheric novel "Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight", a... Read More

A suspect’s hobby, an overheard word, and a bottle cap knocked eschew: everything is a clue in Riku Onda’s riveting novel "The Aosawa Murders", whose terrible central crime... Read More

Ben Pastor’s Martin Bora series mixes historical fact with fiction and is told from the perspective of Bora, a World War II German officer and master detective. The... Read More

Teresa Solana’s short story collection The First Prehistoric Serial Killer is darkly amusing and always entertaining. Its depictions of various criminal schemes and instances... Read More

Gritty and graphic, this mystery probes sex-trafficking rings, with empathy to their victims. Anita Nair’s "Chain of Custody" is a gripping mystery set against the backdrop of... Read More

Writing can be an act of creation—or destruction. In Janet Todd’s "A Man of Genius", Ann St. Clair is a successful nineteenth century novelist of cheap gothic novels whose... Read More

Gritty and raw, Patrícia Melo’s "The Body Snatcher" pushes the limits of acceptable behavior as one man’s impulsive action leads to a chain of events that quickly spirals... Read More

Pastor’s portrait of Nazi-occupied Rome is nuanced and colored with unique characters and their fascinating circumstances. In the third book of the Martin Bora series, Ben... Read More

An atmospheric, Hitchcockian maze reveals architect Pablo Simó’s entanglement in a crime set in contemporary Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro—Argentine journalist,... Read More

An under-stimulated housewife and her philandering husband breed mayhem in this crime novel by best-selling Argentinean author Claudia Pineiro. Pineiro weaves a tale of intrigue... Read More

"Hotel Bosphorus" is light and flaky as Turkish baklava. It features a heroine who is “not the sort of woman to spend [her] time gazing at wrinkles and cellulite” when there... Read More

The best crime stories are those in which everyone is flawed, both the good guys and the bad guys, the dead and the living. The good guys populating "Entanglement" are weak,... Read More