The Crime Writers’ Association

Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2026

Shortlisted


Jurica Pavičić

tr. Matt Robinson

Red Water

Published by: Bitter Lemon Press

Judges’ comments

The small town disappearance of a young woman in a Croatian village on the eve of the bloody decade that destroyed the old Yugoslavia becomes a case that spans decades and changes the lives, mostly for worse, of all its varied protagonists.

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