World Mysterious
Mystery & Suspense Fiction in Translation

Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel*
Boris Akunin (Russian)

Arctic Chill*
Arnaldur Indriðason (Icelandic)

DeKok and the Mask of Death*
A.C. Baantjer (Dutch)

Framed
Tonino Benacquista (French)

The Streets of Babylon: A London Mystery
Carina Burman (Swedish)

August Heat*
Andrea Camilleri (Italian)

Reasonable Doubts*
Gianrico Carofiglio (Italian)

Brodeck
Philippe Claudel (French)

The House of Paper
Carlos María Domínguez (Spanish)

Never End: An Erik Winter Novel
Åke Edwardson (Swedish)

The Demon of Dakar*
Kjell Eriksson (Swedish)

The Water’s Edge*
Karin Fossum (Norwegian)

The Stranger
Max Frei (or Maksim Fraï, Russian)

Berlin
Pierre Frei (German)

The Shadow in the Water
Inger Frimansson (Swedish)

Alone in the Crowd: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery*
L. A. Garciá-Roza (Portuguese)

Death Rites*
Alicia Giménez-Bartlett (Spanish)

The Spoke*
Friedrich Glauser (German)

Murder in Jerusalem: A Michael Ohayon Mystery*
Batya Gur (Hebrew)

What is Mine
Ann Holt (Norwegian)

Solea*
Jean-Claude Izzo (French)

The Successor
Ismail Kadare (Albanian)

The Disappearance at Père-Lachaise: A Victor Legris Mystery*
Claude Izner (French)

Black Ice
Hans Werner Kettenbach (German)

Dead Man’s Share
Yasmina Khadra (French)

Real World*
Natsuo Kirino (Japanese)

Murder in Byzantium
Julia Kristeva (French)

The Black Path*
Åsa Larsson (Swedish)

The Angel’s Promise
Frédéric Lenoir (French)

The Mosaic Crimes
Giulio Leoni (Italian)

The Damned Season*
Carlo Lucarelli (Italian)

The Messengers of Death*
Pierre Magnan (French)

The Man from Beijing*
Henning Mankell (Swedish)

Deadline in Athens
Petros Markaris (Greek)

The Book of Murder
Guillermo Martínez (Spanish

Devil’s Peak
Deon Meyer (Afrikaans)

The Sleeping Dragon*
Miyuki Miyabe (Japanese)

Missing Person
Patrick Modiano (French)

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Julia Navarro (Spanish)

Nemesis*
Jo Nesbø

Woman with Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery*
Håkan Nesser (Swedish)

The Hunter: A Detective Takako Otomichi Mystery
Asa Nonami (Japanese)

The Russian Passenger
Günter Ohnemus (German)

Havana Fever*
Leonardo Padura (Spanish)

My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk (Turkish)

Thursday Night Widows
Claudia Piñeiro (Spanish)

Child’s Play*
Carmen Posadas (Spanish)

Night Bus
Giampiero Rigosi (Italian)

Red April
Santiago Roncagliolo (Spanish)

The Paris Enigma
Pablo de Santis (Spanish)

Death and the Devil
Frank Schätzing (German)

A Not So Perfect Crime
Teresa Solana (Spanish)

The Gigolo Murder*
Mehmet Murat Somer (Turkish)

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
Leonie Swann (German, set in Ireland)

The Darkest Room*
Johan Theorin (Swedish)

The Torso *
Helene Tursten (Swedish)

The Chalk Circle Man*
Fred Vargas (French)

Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
Luís Fernando Veríssimo (Portuguese)

Beyond Suspicion
Tanguy Viel (French)

Ice Moon
Jan Costin Wagner (German, set in Finland)

My Soul To Take: A Novel of Iceland
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (Icelandic)

The Angel’s Game*
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spanish)

*part of a series

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