Fiction in Translation

This novel tells the story of Daniel Stein, a Polish Jew who miraculously survives the Holocaust by working for the Gestapo as an interpreter. This charade not only allows him to save himself, but to help hundreds of others by sharing vital information with those in peril.

Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family living room. The cause of death is instantly apparent - she has been brutally decapitated. Halvorsrud immediately falls under suspicion. Then a journalist at one of Oslo's largest newspapers is found b...

Meet Erik Winter: a bachelor gourmand with a palate for obscure jazz and Lagavulin - and Sweden's youngest Chief Inspector. Despite his new promotion, it's been a tough year - on the heels of losing a childhood friend to AIDS, he now must contend with he parallel murders of youn British and Swedi...

Death in Venice is the story of Aschenbach, an elderly and renowned writer who loses his dignity and carefully structured way of life when he suddenly and unexpectedly falls in love.

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death N...

In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents' moods, their neighbours' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon ...

Detective Ann Lindell finds that one of her leading suspects in a brutal murder investigation owns half of a fancy restaurant named Dakar. His partner has been killed, and everyone who works at the restaurant is under suspicion.

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...

A summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food, the conversation remains a gentle hum. Yet behind the empty words terrible things need to be said and with every forced smile the knives are being sharpened.

It is 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate the murder of two Latvian criminals. Wallander travels to Riga, where he is plunged into a nightmare world of police surveillance, veiled threats and lies.