I live in that house you’ve seen on the news. We painted it robin’s-egg blue the summer I turned sixteen, but in your mind it’s white. Two little pink bikes lean against the veranda, and one wall glows blue with the reflected light of a police car. They use the same picture every time there’s…
Setting has always been an important component of the crime genre. From rainswept city streets to country manors, crumbling sidewalks to pristine beaches, setting can enhance the sense of danger, or provide a beautiful contrast to the grim events of the story. In recent years there has been a wealth of stories that use harsh…
While Three Assassins is billed as the follow up to Kotaro Isaka’s bestselling Bullet Train, it was actually written some years before, and has now been ably translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa. If you enjoyed Bullet Train as much as I did, then you mustn’t miss this novel—and not just because of Mr…
