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The latest news about our gripping crime fiction, thrillers and mysteries, detective books, crime stories and page-turning books.

July 2023 The Murder of Anton Livius is Out Now

Hansjörg Schneider - The Murder of Anton Livius
The Murder of Anton Livius is out.  . The third in the Basel Inspector Hunkeler series. Read more

May 2023 The Man in the Corduroy Suit by James Wolff OUT NOW

James Wolff - The Man in the Corduroy Suit
The Man in the Corduroy Suit by James Wolff out now: . The third in the Discipline Files series, after the success of Beside the Syrian Sea and How to Betray Your Country. Read more

March 2023 The Translator by Harriet Crawley OUT NOW

Harriet Crawley - The Translator
The Translator by Harriet Crawley OUT NOW: LINK "A classic thriller of the new Cold War." Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad

January Newsletter and new interview with Katja Ivar

Katja Ivar - Trouble
"Trouble" by Katja Ivar is out and the subject of our January newsletter HERE. It's the third in the Hella Mauzer series and Katja reveals much about the genesis of the book and its context in the INTERVIEW.

Katja Ivar Interview in Publishers Weekly

Katja Ivar - Trouble

Daylight is No Shield:  Katja Ivar Interview in PW--December 2022

In Trouble, Ivar’s third outing for Hella Mauzer, set in the early 1950s, the Finnish PI seeks the truth about some deaths in her family’s past. 

What about Cold War Finland intrigued you? The era is fascinating, because that’s when our contemporary world took shape, really. And Finland was such an interesting place, because it had a very long border with the Soviet Union that’s very hard to monitor. I wanted the tension from that geopolitical context, which plays a big role. 

LoveReading piece about Bitter Lemon 14 December 2022

LoveReading piece about Bitter Lemon 14 December 2022
LoveReading interview about Bitter Lemon Press in its Industry Insights series. The history, the future and recommended books.View more info Read More

September 2022 Newsletter Out

September 2022 Newsletter Out
See LINK.  Our newsletter is out featuring There Are No Happy Loves by Sergio Olguin. Part of the Veronica Rosenthal series, our fearless Buenos Aires investigative journalist. Read More

July 2022 Newsletter Out Now

The July BLP newsletter is out:  LINK Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda is available, to follow on from the success of The Aosawa Murders, a NYTImes Notable Book... Read More

The May Newsletter OUT NOW

The BLP May Newsletter is out today: LINK. The welcome for Kalmann by Joachim B.Schmidt is big. So deserved!

The April Newsletter Out Now

The April newsletter is out: see LINK

February 2022 Newsletter is available

The Bitter Lemon February 2022 is available now on this LINK

The November 2021 Newsletter is out

Here is the LINK to the November 2021 Newsletter.