Writing the World
Writing the World

Tales of international crime.  Because, crikey, even a dummkopf knows every barrio and prefecture has its own je nais sais quoi, right? (Somebody call the keisatsu!)

May 12 2013
Fresh Meat: The Healer by Antti Tuomainen
Kristin Centorcelli
April 18 2013
Fresh Meat: Mumbai Confidential Book 1: Good Cop, Bad Cop by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde
Doreen Sheridan
March 12 2013
Fresh Meat: The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
Cindy Kerschner
February 28 2013
Fresh Meat: Baksheesh by Esmahan Aykol
Leslie Gilbert Elman
February 26 2013
Evil In All Its Disguises: New Excerpt
Hilary Davidson
February 21 2013
Fresh Meat: The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Leslie Gilbert Elman
February 18 2013
Fresh Meat: Killer’s Art by Mari Jungstedt
Leslie Gilbert Elman
February 17 2013
Fresh Meat: A Good Death by Christopher R. Cox
Kristin Centorcelli
January 14 2013
Fresh Meat: Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus
Katherine Tomlinson
January 13 2013
Fresh Meat: The Russian Donation by Christoph Spielberg
Leigh Neely
January 6 2013
Scene of the Crime in Reykjavík
Crime HQ
January 4 2013
Fresh Meat: A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Leslie Gilbert Elman
December 31 2012
Fresh Meat: Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson
Victoria Janssen
December 25 2012
Snow White Must Die: New Excerpt
Nele Neuhaus
November 24 2012
Mandarin Gate: New Excerpt
Eliot Pattison
September 20 2012
Fresh Meat: The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
Victoria Janssen
September 9 2012
The Troubled... Fan?: For the Love of Wallander
Dorothy Hayes
September 1 2012
Fresh Meat: Outrage by Arnaldur Indriðason
Leslie Gilbert Elman
August 25 2012
Fresh Meat: Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski
Leslie Gilbert Elman
August 6 2012
Fresh Meat: The Viper by Håkan Östlundh
Jordan Foster
June 21 2012
Petros Markaris: The Greek Master of Crime Fiction
Lakis Fourouklas
June 5 2012
Fresh Meat: Carin Gerhardsen’s The Gingerbread House
Jordan Foster
May 29 2012
Fresh Meat: Killer’s Island by Anna Jansson
Clare Toohey
May 15 2012
Fresh Meat: The Dead of Summer by Mari Jungstedt
Jordan Foster
May 6 2012
Don’t Cry, Tai Lake: New Excerpt
Qiu Xiaolong
May 1 2012
Getaway: New Excerpt
Lisa Brackmann
April 29 2012
Sherlock Goes to Bollywood
Jennifer Proffitt
April 26 2012
Fresh Meat: Lynn Shepherd’s The Solitary House
Victoria Janssen
April 25 2012
Love and Crime Italian-Style: Andrea Camilleri
Leslie Gilbert Elman
March 29 2012
Fresh Meat: Beastly Things by Donna Leon
Susan Amper
March 25 2012
The Nordic Invasion Takes New York: Yrsa Sigurdardóttir and Elizabeth Hand
Crime HQ
March 19 2012
Fresh Meat: Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Leslie Gilbert Elman
March 8 2012
International (Crime Writing) Women’s Day!
Crime HQ
February 6 2012
Available Dark: New Excerpt
Elizabeth Hand
February 2 2012
Fresh Meat: Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand
Victoria Janssen
January 23 2012
Happy Year of the Dragon! Gong Xi Fa Ca!
Crime HQ
January 17 2012
Bloodland: New Excerpt
Alan Glynn
January 11 2012
Those Who Love Night: New Excerpt
Wessel Ebersohn
December 20 2011
Christmas Is for Happy People: Arnaldur Indridason’s Voices
Peggy Ehrhart
November 17 2011
Vengeance in Botswana: Michael Stanley’s The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu
Peggy Ehrhart
September 9 2011
Judge Ooka in the East and West
Ho-Ling Wong
September 6 2011
Fresh Meat: Nairobi Heat by Mukoma wa Ngugi
Victoria Janssen
August 13 2011
Welcome to Ghana, Mystery Lovers: Kwei Quartey’s Wife of the Gods
Peggy Ehrhart
August 12 2011
Japanese Fictional Crimes and Criminal Fictions
Ho-Ling Wong
August 5 2011
The Existential World of Hakan Nesser: Life is What You Make It
Peggy Ehrhart
July 16 2011
Crimes in Writing and Writings in Crime
Ho-Ling Wong
July 10 2011
Held for Murder in Kuwait- Part 2
Tony Hays
July 9 2011
Held for Murder in Kuwait- Part 1
Tony Hays
June 30 2011
Deon Meyer’s South Africa and the Bliss of Gritty Procedurals
Amy Dalton
June 28 2011
World’s Longest Detective Story: The Terror of Werewolf Castle
Ho-Ling Wong
June 18 2011
Fred Vargas: History Behind Paris’s Curious Thrills?
Peggy Ehrhart
June 15 2011
Detective Conan: Smartest Modern Detective in Asia?
Ho-Ling Wong
June 7 2011
Truffaut’s Sexy French Female Sleuth
Peggy Ehrhart
June 6 2011
The Photographic Noir: Criminal Portraits from Sydney Police 1912-1948
Cathy Zhu Chen
June 1 2011
Crime Fiction is the New Travel Writing
Jason Goodwin
May 28 2011
Ellery Queen is Alive and Well and Living in Japan
Ho-Ling Wong
May 25 2011
A Touch of Dutch
Leslie Gilbert Elman
May 24 2011
Bicycles, Umbrellas and Love Hotels: Crime Japanese Style
Tony Hays
May 21 2011
One Scotland, Different Universes: Lads of Crime
Dirk Robertson
May 20 2011
One Scotland, Different Universes: Lasses of Crime
Dirk Robertson
May 16 2011
Censorship and Chinese Crime Fiction: The Party Has Only Begun
Cathy Zhu Chen
May 12 2011
Irresistible Itineraries: Crime Fiction as Travelogue
Elyse Dinh-McCrillis
May 8 2011
Chaotic Steps in Japanese Crime Fiction: A Brief History From the 1920s-1940s
Ho-Ling Wong
May 7 2011
Africa, India, and Alexander the Great
Leslie Gilbert Elman
May 6 2011
Trouble’s Aftermath: Northern Ireland’s Crime Fiction
Peter Rozovsky
May 4 2011
Higashino’s Suspect X: Love and Obligation
Naomi Hirahara
May 2 2011
The Wire: An English Cop’s Perspective
Colin Campbell
April 30 2011
The Only Honest Cop in Thailand?
Amy Dalton
April 25 2011
Exploring Japanese Detective Stories: A Primer
Ho-Ling Wong
April 24 2011
Meet the Swedes: Henning Mankell and Wallander
Dirk Robertson