This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. An author with a Nordic name and a certain style is automatically of interest to publishers of translations. Inevitably, these unpredictable tides rise and fall. The similarities of any form can become too familiar or the quality diminish as more peripheral writers and imitators exploit its popularity.
8 Must-Read Japanese Mystery Novels | Books and Bao
They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again. Yoshinobu Mikami, a former detective who was involved in the original case and who is now himself the father of a missing daughter—is forced to revisit the botched investigation. Mikami is hoping to help finally put the notorious case to rest. But what he uncovers are secrets that he never could have imagined. When you read a lot of mystery, crime, and thrillers, being surprised starts to get rarer and rarer.
The Asian Detective Novel: from Racist Caricature to Authentic Representation
Funny how things work sometimes. So it was only fitting when I turned to writing fiction that my Jim Brodie series was set, in part, in the city I love. No quick whirlwind visit, then home to whip out a story.
Here she chooses her top 10 crime novels set in Asia. Catherine Sampson's latest novel, The Pool of Unease, is set in Beijing, where the author has lived for many years. The book also introduces private detective Song Ren, who is miserably staking out a brothel when he hears a blood-curdling scream, and goes to investigate In China, politics adds a thick layer of complication. To write about crime in China - however fictional - is to advertise the fact that Chinese society is not an entirely harmonious and benign thing.