East-European Crime and Mystery Fiction in French

For more than three decades, the genre centered on social dysfunction has offered a representation of Central and Eastern European cultures that are quite diverse but which are all reacting to the political trauma of occasioned by the fall of the Eastern block. An overview of more than 460 crime novels. For the reader, the importation and translation of titles from these countries constitutes a system - including novels from the East before the fall of the Berlin Wall as well as those by Western authors published in French or in French translation.