Authors

Our authors of crime fiction, thrillers and mysteries, detective books, crime stories and page-turning books.

Niccolo Ammaniti and others

Niccolo Ammaniti and others

Authors include Italy's best crime writers Ammaniti, Carlotto, Camilleri, Lucarelli, Fois and others. De Cataldo is the editor of the 'Crimini' anthology, a best selling crime writer and an essayist and playwright.
Esmahan Aykol

Esmahan Aykol

Esmahan Aykol was born in 1970 in Edirne, Turkey. She lives in Istanbul and Berlin.She has written four Kati Hirschel mystery novels. 'Hotel Bosphorus' and 'Baksheesh' are the first two and have been published in eight languages.

Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista, born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, a train guard on the Paris-Rome line...

Frei Betto

Frei Betto

Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, liberation theologian and Dominican friar.He has written 56 books, published in 23 languages. 'Hotel Brasil' is his first novel available in English.

Sergio Bizzio

Sergio Bizzio

Novelist, playwright, poet, and screenwriter, the Argentinian writer Sergio Bizzio has already made his own debut as a film director with "Animals". "Rage" is his sixth novel and is a bestseller soon to be a film.

Marion Brunet

Marion Brunet

Marion Brunet, born in 1976 in the Vaucluse, is a well-known novelist in France. Summer of Reckoning won the prestigious French mystery prize 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature policière and was selected by Paris-Match as one of the best five crime novels of 2018

 

 

Gianrico Carofiglio

Gianrico Carofiglio

Gianrico Carofiglio is one of Italy's bestselling authors. He was an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Bari, a port on the coast of Puglia. He has been involved with trials concerning corruption, organized crime and the traffic in human beings. Carofiglio is best known for the Guido Guerrieri crime series. 

Jacques Chessex

Jacques Chessex

Jacques Chessex is one of Switzerland's great contemporary authors. He is revered in France and won the Prix Goncourt in 1973 for L'Ogre...

Elliott Colla

Elliott Colla

Elliott Colla divides his time between Washington DC and the Middle East. He is a professor and translator of Arabic literature. 'Baghdad Central' is his first novel.

Patrick Conrad

Patrick Conrad

Patrick Conrad is one of Belgium's most famous thriller writers and film makers.This is his second novel to be published in English.

Harriet Crawley

Harriet Crawley

Harriet Crawley has been a journalist, writer, and art dealer, worked in television and radio, and she stood for the Westminster and European Parliaments. She speaks five languages and The Translator is her fifth book.

Keir Davidson

Keir Davidson

Keir Davidson is a landscape historian and a landscape planner. He has written on Japanese gardens and is the author of ‘Woburn Abbey: the Park and Gardens’.