Dutch Treats: A New Book by Josh Pachter Coming September 1
Now that the Scandinavian Wave has pretty much run its course, what’s next for fans of international crime fiction? Editor Josh Pachter and Genius Book Publishing invite you to catch the Dutch Wave!
In Dutch Treats, Pachter collects twenty-one tales of mischief, misdemeanor, malfeasance, and murder by a Who’s Who of award-winning contemporary Dutch and Flemish crime-fiction writers, including: René Appel (two-time winner of the Golden Noose, Holland’s equivalent of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award), Michael Berg (Golden Noose), Dominique Biebau (Golden Noose and Hercule Poirot Prize, which is Belgium’s Edgar), Bram Dehouck (Shadow Prize for Best Debut Mystery and Golden Noose), Bavo Dhooge (Shadow and Hercule Poirot prizes), Marion Pauw (Golden Noose twice), Bob Van Laerhoven (Hercule Poirot Prize), Hilde Vandermeeren (Hercule Poirot Prize), and a baker’s dozen more.
Translated by the editor, fourteen of the stories were originally published in the “Passport to Crime” department of the internationally acclaimed Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and the others appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere.
In addition to translating fiction from Dutch to English and editing anthologies, Josh Pachter is himself the author of more than a hundred and thirty short crime stories and the 2020 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. His novel Dutch Threat (Genius) was a finalist for the Agatha, Lefty, and Macavity awards, and he was the co-editor (with René Appel) of the anthology Amsterdam Noir (Akashic) and the translator of Appel’s novel The Amsterdam Lawyer (Genius).
The next big crime wave will be Dutch. Treat yourself and catch the wave!
