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Today I’m taking part in a blog tour for Corylus Books, a lovely indie publisher with a focus on translated crime fiction. I really enjoyed Black Storms, the first in Teresa Solana’s stories featur…

Read "Historical Value" by Quentin Bates available from Rakuten Kobo. Old bones comes to light on a remote farm in the north of Iceland. Detective Helgi Svavarsson is reluctant to get involv...

The Spy Who Stole a Trawler: (And Other Forgotten Fishing Stories) eBook : W. Lavery, Brian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

No money, no future – a motive for murder? By Teresa Solana Translated by Peter Bush Published by Corylus Books 223 pages ISBN 978-1917586283 Publication date 12 September 2026 I was sent an electr…

Source: Review copy from Corylus Books – thank you ! Translated by Peter Bush I loved the first of Catatan author Teresa Solana’s Barcelona Nights series of novels from Corylus Books, B…

The Butterfly House (Barcelona Nights, 2) Teresa Solana (trans Peter Bush) Corylus Books, 12 September 2026 Available as: e    Source: Advan...

Coming soon from Iceland is The Hotel Manager's Guide to Murder. Today we're joined by its author, Erlendur Arason, to learn more about this noir-ish new caper.

Twelve outstanding crime fiction novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have made the longlist for the 2026 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. They are: Snæbj…

Embargoed until 8am 27 August 2026 (UK time).   OUTSTANDING CRIME FICTION FROM FINLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PETRONA AWARD Twelve crime novels from Finland, Icel…

Over time, there has been a tendency to place all Nordic Crime Fiction under an umbrella of sameness, largely because the early successes in the subgenre were indeed dark, brooding pieces dripping …

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Global Noir: featuring acclaimed crime fiction authors and stories from around the world, plus pitch to a literary agent one-to-one.

When Torfi is mistakenly promoted to manage the Hotel Bristol, he gets drawn into dark schemes and digs a hole he can't get out of in Erlendur Arason's novel

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Erlendur has written a gripping mystery infused with dark wit, relatable circumstances, and sympathetic characters. He uses one simple sentence, "But I know...everything" as a jumping off point for a ...

Erlendur has written a gripping mystery infused with dark wit, relatable circumstances, and sympathetic characters. He uses one simple sentence, "But I know...everything" as a jumping off point for a ...

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