Fiction in Translation

Inspector Ann Lindell hasn't had much time to enjoy her new relationship with journalist Anders Brant before he disappears without a trace and a homeless man's body is found with Anders' phone number in his pocket.

In 1942, Daniel, a soldier legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the end of the cent...

Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to 25. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case.

It's a hot summer in Oslo when a young woman is found murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off, & beneath her eyelid is a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five pointed star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with Tom Waaler - a colleague Harry suspects of running an arms smu...

In a crumbling colonial mansion besieged by slums in the old quarter of Algiers, Lamia lives a life of isolation, communing only with her ghosts by day, working as a paediatrician by day. Her family are dead, but for her beloved brother Sofiane. Lamia's tranquil existence is turned upside-down wh...

Picking up where 'The Bridges of Constantine' ended, Mosteghanemi's second novel begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high-ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on...

'Where Pigeons Don't Fly' follows Fahd, a boy growing up in Riyadh, from early childhood to the point where he flees Saudi Arabia to Britain in search of greater personal freedom.

When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead. Theories are rife. Was it an argument? Was it drugs, revenge or madness? At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together....

Germany, World War II. Two English pilots are shot down and crash land behind enemy lines. The area swarming with German troops, they have only minutes to crawl from the wreckage and make their escape. Boarding a train reserved for wounded SS men on the way home from the eastern front, they ditch...

This psychological thriller is set in the winter snows of a Swedish hamlet. A strange young woman inveigles herself into the life of an elderly children's illustrator who lives alone in the woods. But why is she doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? By the time the snow thaws both the...