We’re wrapping up the year with a look at crime, non-Scandinavian style. You’ll find no dragon tattoos or icy fjords here, only an abundance of lawlessness from the rest of the world. In two chilling monologues, Umar Timol’s murderer speaks to a dead audience, and Sergey Kuznetsov’s sociopath finds killing is always in season. Rubem Fonseca’s contract killer works both sides, Care Santos’s exasperated writer sends a pesky journalist to his final deadline, and Italian best seller Andrea Camilleri defines a Mafia vocabulary. Washington Cucurto returns to the scene of a Cortazar crime. China’s Sun Yisheng’s police extract an unexpected confession. French graphic superstar David B. and Herve Tanquerelle track a bank heist; Willy Uribe’s fugitive cuts to the chase; Morocco’s Mahi Binebine shows a suicide bomber’s first murder. And Laurence Colchester and François von Hurter talk about publishing all crime, all the time. To skip this issue would be, well, criminal.
