Reviews for Havana Blue by Leonardo Padura
'Havana Blue (1991) [English 2007], is the first of the Cuban author's Four Seasons Quartet set in Havana in 1989 -- called the Havana Quartet in the English edition. Police... Read More
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Reviews for D.B. by Elwood Reid
'In 1971, a man going by the name of DB Cooper hijacked a plane en route to Seattle. Threatening to blow it up if he didn't receive $200,000, he eventually... Read More
Reviews for Framed by Tonino Benacquista
'On the surface this translation of a French Noir uses typical throwaway gimmicks like phone tips, but those actually serve as satirical devices that enhance this dark amusing crime caper... Read More
Reviews for Havana Black by Leonardo Padura
'HAVANA BLACK, the sequel to the superb HAVANA RED, is an excellent Cuban police procedural that provides readers with a terrific investigation while guiding the audience around Havana three decades... Read More
Reviews for Fever by Friedrich Glauser
'Friedrich Glauser's Fever (from the wonderful Bitter Lemon Press) has to be one of the more interesting books I've read in ages. It's a rather complicated mystery involving some dead... Read More
Reviews for Night Bus by Giampiero Rigosi
'Literary critic Rigosi has set his first crime novel in Bologna; it's a fast-moving thriller that compares favourably with the work of Elmore Leonard and Donald E. Westlake. Andrea Fabbri,... Read More
Reviews for Someone Else by Tonino Benacquista
'Seventeen pages in and Benacquista's perfectly judged opening chapter has set up a fascinating premise. Two strangers play a fiercely competitive tennis game, meeting after for a drink, each confesses... Read More
Reviews for Angelina's Children by Alice Ferney
'Everything Angelina does is in the interest of genetic survival; she would, she admits, let her husband starve if it were the only way she could feed her children. It... Read More
Reviews for The Mannequin Man by Luca Di Fulvio
'Di Fulvio exposes souls with the skills of a surgeon. It's like turning the pages of something forbidden-seductive, elegant and dangerous.' - Alan Rickman 'The book, originally published as L'Impagliatore... Read More
Reviews for Havana Red by Leonardo Padura
'Called on to solve the murder of a transvestite found strangled in the Havana woods, Lieutenant Mario Conde is thrown into the thick of a tangled web of mysticism, politics... Read More
Reviews for Black Ice by Hans Werner Kettenbach
'The New Noir Comes from Europe: Hans Werner Kettenbach's Black Ice: One mystery of literary noir fiction is the why of it's disappearance in America after the mid-Sixties. The genre... Read More
Reviews for In Matto's Realm by Friedrich Glauser
'The Spirit of Madness. After reading Friedrich Glauser's dark tour de force In Matto's Realm (Bitter Lemon; paperback, $13.95), it's easy to see why the German equivalent of the Edgar... Read More