This month’s picks include Nazis on the run in South America, a new Swedish-style Sherlock story, an action-packed Japanese thriller, a brooding Lebanese detective story, and a Kafkaesque take on the mid-century Japanese legal system, all beautifully translated and most from small presses
“The title is misleading, as this one takes place in Lebanon, where a newly returned prodigal son is found murdered. Did his cousins kill him to rob him of a valuable painting, or is the answer more complicated? The investigator assigned to the case is not so sure, and perhaps more interested in solving the riddle of the murdered man’s life than the mystery of his death. Moody, poetic, and intellectual, The King of India is the perfect introspective read for early fall.”
— LitHub’s CrimeReads
