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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Feyre Archeron is nineteen years old and barely keeping her family alive. She hunts in the woods outside their decaying village not because she has any great love of it, but because someone has to, and her father is broken and her sisters are helpless and the alternative is watching all of them starve. One…
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Death
Kwei Quartey’s Death by His Grace is the fourth novel in his Inspector Darko Dawson series, published in 2017. Set in Accra, Ghana, the book opens with a violent murder that sends Dawson into a world of evangelical churches, Pentecostal fervor, and the complex social dynamics of a modern West African city navigating tradition and…
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Snowdrift
Helene Tursten has spent two decades building one of Scandinavian crime fiction’s most durable and quietly remarkable careers, and Snowdrift, published in Swedish in 2019 and in English translation by Marlaine Delargy in 2020, represents a late addition to her catalog that demonstrates exactly why she has earned that reputation. The novel is set during…
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For Time and All Eternities
Robert Repino’s For Time and All Eternities sits at an unusual intersection: it is, on its surface, a mystery novel, but it operates in the territory between crime fiction, science fiction, and social satire. Published in 2017 by Soho Crime, the book is a standalone departure from Repino’s War with No Name series and follows…
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The Sleeping Nymph
Ilaria Tuti’s The Sleeping Nymph, published in Italian in 2019 and in English translation in 2020, is the third novel in her Teresa Battaglia series, and it finds the series at the height of its powers. Teresa Battaglia is one of the most distinctive protagonists in contemporary European crime fiction: a criminal profiler in her…
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A Disappearance in Fiji
Nilima Rao’s debut novel A Disappearance in Fiji, published by Soho Crime in 2024, is an unusual and compelling entry in the tradition of historical crime fiction. Set in colonial Fiji in 1914, the book follows Sergeant Akal Singh, a Sikh policeman serving under British colonial administration, who is sent to a remote sugar plantation…
