Authors

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

Ben Pastor

Ben Pastor

BEN PASTOR lived for thirty years in the United States, working as a university professor, before returning to Italy to write historical thrillers. She has published threw novels in the Martin Bora series in English so far and a number of prize winning novels such as the The Water Thief.

Jurica Pavicic

Jurica Pavicic

Jurica Pavičić (born 1965) is a Croatian writer, scriptwriter, and journalist, living in Split. He has written seven novels, two collections of short stories and essays. His work has been translated into five languages. Red Water is his first novel to be translated into English.
Chantal Pelletier

Chantal Pelletier

Chantal Pelletier, born in Lyon, began her career as an actor. She founded a theatre company in Paris and is the author of novels, essays, plays and film scripts. It is not unusual to find her engaged simultaneously...

Robin Ravilious

Robin Ravilious

Robin Ravilious is the widow of photographer James Ravilious and was closely involved in his work from the start, often travelling with him, and working on his books and exhibitions.  She... Read More
James Ravilious

James Ravilious

James Ravilious (1939-1999) trained as an artist, like his father Eric, but a Cartier-Bresson exhibition converted him to photography, which he taught himself. In 1972, a move to his wife... Read More
Claudia Pineiro

Claudia Pineiro

Claudia Pineiro was a journalist and playwright but is now fully dedicated to fiction. She is Argentina's bestselling crime writer.

Giampiero Rigosi

Giampiero Rigosi

Giampiero Rigosi, born in 1962, lives and works in Bologna. He is a much acclaimed literary critic, short-story and song writer as well as a producer of radio programmes on cinema noir and crime literature. Night Bus is his first crime novel.

Elwood Reid

Elwood Reid

Elwood Reid is the author of the novels If I Don't Six and Midnight Sun, and the story collection What Salmon Know. He has written for GQ and is a frequent contributor to Outside Magazine. He lives in Montana.

Mercedes Rosende

Mercedes Rosende

Mercedes Rosende was born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 2005 she won the Premio Municipal de Narrativa für ‘Demasiados Blues’, in 2008 the National Literature Prize for ‘La Muerte Tendrá tus Ojos’ and in 2019 the LiBeraturpreis in Germany for ‘Crocodile Tears’.

Francis Russell

Francis Russell

Author of art guides to Italy and Syria and Deputy Chairman of Christie's.

Joachim B. Schmidt

Joachim B. Schmidt

Joachim B. Schmidt, born in Grisons, Switzerland in 1981, is a journalist and the author of three novels and numerous short stories. 
Hansjörg Schneider

Hansjörg Schneider

Hansjörg Schneider (born 1938) lives in Basel and began his professional career as a journalist and essayist. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed plays and of the bestselling Hunkeler crime series, now with ten titles published. “The Basel Killings”, the first to be published in English, was awarded The Friedrich Glauser Prize.