Authors

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

Seicho Matsumoto

Seicho Matsumoto

Matsumoto (1909-1992) is a ‘Japanese immortal’, considered to have written the best Japanese mystery novels of the 20th century. The Japanese Simenon many say.

Patricia Melo

Patricia Melo

Patricia Melo is Brazil's best selling crime writer.

Zygmunt Miłoszewski

Zygmunt Miłoszewski

Zygmunt Miłoszewski, born in Warsaw in 1975, is a rising star of Polish fiction. This is his first novel published in English...

Gianluca Morozzi

Gianluca Morozzi

Gianluca Morozzi was born in Bologna in 1971, where he lives today. His most recent titles include "L'era del porco" and "Blackout", his first roman noir...

Quentin Mouron

Quentin Mouron

Quentin Mouron is a poet and a novelist. He was born in Lausanne in 1989 and is Swiss and Canadian. He has written three other highly acclaimed novels before Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine.

Anita Nair

Anita Nair

Anita Nair is one of India’s most acclaimed authors whose oeuvre ranges from literary fiction to noir to poetry to children’s literature. Her
books have been translated into thirty-two languages around the world
and have been adapted for audio, the stage and the screen.

 

Saskia Noort

Saskia Noort

Saskia Noort is a best selling author.'The Dinner Club', published in English by Bitter Lemon Press in 2007, has sold over 500,000 copies in the Netherlands. 'Back to the Coast' sold over 250,000 copies.

Sergio Olguin

Sergio Olguin

Sergio Olguín was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and was a journalist before turning to fiction. Olguín has won a number of awards, among others the Premio Tusquets 2009.

Riku Onda

Riku Onda

Riku Onda, born in 1964, won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel for The Aosawa Murders. This was her first crime novel and the first time she was translated into English. It was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of 2020.

Harri Nykanen

Harri Nykanen

'Nights of Awe' features Ariel Kafka, Helsinki's only Jewish homicide cop. First of a series by Harri Nykanen.

Günter Ohnemus

Günter Ohnemus

Günter Ohnemus, born in 1946, lives in Munich and writes novels, essays and translations. He has written three collections of short stories and a best-seller for teenagers. This is his first novel to be translated...

Leonardo Padura

Leonardo Padura

Leonardo Padura was born in 1955 in Havana and lives in Cuba. He has won many literary prizes, including the prestigious Princess de Asturias Prize in 2015 and the 2023 Pepe Carvalho Prize. He published THE MAN WHO LOVED DOGS, his masterpiece about the assassination of Trotsky.