Magnificent Octopus

Prague Kafka gets a Google doodle on his 130th birthday. Poland Wisława Szymborska got a Google doodle on her 90th birthday yesterda...

There's an interesting piece by Mark Lawson in The Guardian about the long and popular tradition of European crime fiction and introduc...

Mock got up from his chair and cast his eye over the assembled men. This was what he had been missing for the past three years. Briefings, f...

Brenner and God I read Brenner and God , by Wolf Haas, earlier this summer and thoroughly enjoyed the story and the fresh manner of its tel...

The winners of this year's Best Translated Book Award were announced last Friday, with the fiction award going to Wiesław Myśliwski...

Four browned goose necks landed on Mock's plate. He cut this delicacy into strips and arranged them on round, crunchy slices of potato. ...

Mock looked up at his colleague, Herbert Domagalla, who was clattering on the platen of a Torpedo typewriter, transforming the statements gi...

Which cover do you like better? Would you pay a premium (of, say, 50% more) to have the book with your preferred cover? Have you ever ins...

Eberhard Mock, Criminal Councillor investigating the serial killings that occur in The End of the World in Breslau (by Marek Krajewski), ad...

Standing room only again in the metro the other morning. I'm used to it. I pull out my novel. I feel someone's eyes on me. A middl...

It's been a few years since I followed along with Carl's annual autumnal Halloween-mood-based challenge, Readers Imbibing Peril (RI...

So many I thought I'd be over and done with. So many I had planned. But there just isn't enough time. Martin Chuzzlewit , Charles ...

Marek Krajewski was a wonderful discovery and Death in Breslau is full of, in my opinion, fantastic story elements . I won't repeat mys...

The patient Herbert Anwaldt had survived "the house of torture", as he called the psychiatric clinic on Marien-Allee in Dresden, f...