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Crime

Time-Travelers, Fisherwomen, and Sleuths: Arabic Young Adult Literature

By Elisabeth Jaquette

While Arabic publishing has historically focused on literature for adults and young children, recent years have seen an increasing number of titles aimed at a young adult readership.

Black Saturday

By Djamila Morani

“Soothsayers tell the truth even when they’re lying.”

Translated from Arabic by Sawad Hussain

Forced Confessions: On True Crime Writing

By Susan Harris

The pieces here map the translation of event into prose—the creation of true crime writing.

The Sixth Victim

By Shōko Egawa

It all began about the time that the men and women were finishing their first drinks.

Translated from Japanese by David Boyd

St. Barbara

By Marek Šindelka, Vojtěch Mašek & Marek Pokorný

It’s not your job to solve this case.

Translated from Czech by Julia Sherwood & Peter Sherwood

Multimedia

I Found Out I Was Dead

By João Paulo Cuenca

She’s the one who identified the body with your name, address, and document number.

Translated from Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe

Factproof

Like most gruesome crimes, the case also reveals something of society's ills.

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

Multimedia

The Pain of Others

By Miguel Ángel Hernández

Twenty years ago, one Christmas Eve, my best friend killed his sister and threw himself off a cliff.

Translated from Spanish by Anna Milsom

Lusia Murdered

By Cezary Łazarewicz

“Must you put on a fur when someone shouts ‘murder'?

Translated from Polish by Sean Gasper Bye

A picture of a choppy ocean

Photo by John Towner on Unsplash

Massacre in the Pacific: A Personal Account

It's not a crime to kill someone on the high seas, you know.

Translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman & Emily Jones

Partners in Crime: Bitter Lemon Press

By Laurence Colchester & François von Hurter

Astonishing as it may seem, we haven’t published any crime novels from Scandinavia.

The Killer’s Monologue

Do I feel remorse? Of course not.

Translated from French by David Ball & Nicole Ball

Multilingual

Belle

By Rubem Fonseca

I don’t enjoy popping anybody, but it's my job.

Translated from Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers

Multilingual

False Faces: An Imagined Life of the Wig Gang

By David B. & Hervé Tanquerelle

“Remember that safe I carried off with Adjaj and Bernard and opened at my dad’s?”

Translated by Edward Gauvin

The Shades who Periscope Through Flowers to the Sky

“If you don’t go home, there’ll be bloodshed.”

Translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman

from “Butterfly Skin”

By Sergey Kuznetsov

It is good to kill in spring.

Translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield

Confession

Aficionados of morbid details, you will be asking yourselves what method I used.

Translated from Spanish by Megan Berkobien

Multilingual

Defiled Woman

By Washington Cucurto

My two homies from Africa spent the whole damn day lying in bed or drinking mate in the fountained patio of the house.

Translated from Spanish by Gabriel Saxton-Ruiz

from “Horses of God”

By Mahi Binebine

The spurting blood only excited him more.

Translated from French by Lulu Norman

from “Nanga”

I was surprised when he was the first one who came and tried to blackmail me.

Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

from “You Don’t Know: A Mafia Dictionary”

By Andrea Camilleri

When it comes to adultery, however, sometimes you have to turn a blind eye.

Translated from Italian by Elizabeth Harris

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