Browse & Borrow | Crime In Translation
The godmother [France]
Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid French-Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is wedged between the costs of raising her daughters and the nursing home fees for her ageing mother.
The Island [Iceland]
Autumn of 1987 takes a young couple on a romantic trip in the Westfjords holiday — a trip that gets an unexpected ending and has catastrophic consequences. Ten years later a small group of friends go for a weekend in an old hunting lodge in Elliðaey.
The shadow [Germany]
'On February 11 you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm. Of your own free will. And for a good reason.' Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for good when a homeless woman spits these words at her.
The other end of the line [Italy]
In Inspector Montalbano's coastal town of Vigata, migrants have been surging in by boat, and all the town's hands are on deck to help the arrivals.
I will miss you tomorrow [Norway]
"Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever.
The gilded cage [Sweden]
All that glitters... People would kill to have Faye Adelheim's life. She lives in an ultra-swanky apartment in the most exclusive area of Stockholm, she has a gorgeous husband who gives her everything she's ever wanted, and she has an adorable daughter who lights up her world.