International Crime Month 2014

Held every year in June, International Crime Month is a celebration of crime fiction from foreign shores. Four of America’s most prominent independent publishers—Grove Atlantic, Akashic Books, Melville House, and Europa Editions—have joined forces to bring this vital and socially significant genre to a wider American audience.

International Crime Month 2014 highlights new titles from Akashic’s city-based “Noir” series, Europa’s World Noir imprint, Grove Atlantic's Mysterious Press and Atlantic Monthly Press imprints, and Melville House’s International Crime series.

A free ICM Journal will soon be available at participating bookstores, at BEA and ALA with original short fiction, interviews, conversations and profiles from authors featured in this year’s Crime Month: William McIlvanney, Marco Malvaldi, Mark Billingham, Christopher Brookmyre, Didier Daeninckx, Giorgio Scerbanenco, Edwidge Danticut, and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.

The month-long initiative will kick-off in New York at the very end of May at the annual book industry expo, Book Expo America, with events open to the public at the Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn Public Library.