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Jakob Arjouni has been hailed – mainly in Germany – as the successor to American crime fiction masters Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) and Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye) since the release of his first novel, Happy Birthday, Turk! in 1987.
Arjouni picks up the tradition [...]

Bruce Murkoff’s writing gives the impression he thinks in sepia tones. Such is the clarity of the prose in his second novel, Red Rain.
Set during the Civil War in the Hudson River Valley town of Roundout, New York, Red Rain begins just after the Union Army defeat at Cold Harbor, one of the bloodiest battles of the [...]

Jean-Christophe Valtat thinks in French. Generally, he writes in French. Three previous works of literary fiction: Album, Exes, and 03 being proof of this. Aurorarama, his latest novel, a steampunk tale of revolution and frostbite, is his first book written in English. And while Valtat may borrow the Queen’s English for 400 pages, the ideas [...]