Maxim Jakubowski

About The Author

Maxim Jakubowski is a highly regarded translator from French and Italian. An ex-publisher, and one-time owner of the Murder One bookstore, he is also a writer and editor of crime, mystery and erotic fiction, and has published nearly one hundred books. A regular broadcaster on TV and radio, Maxim Jukubowski reviews crime fiction for The Guardian. He also contributes to The Times, the Bookseller and the Evening Standard and is the literary director of the Crime Scene Film and Book Festival, held annually in London. For many years, he has edited anthologies of the best British mystery stories of the year and the world’s best erotica, which have become bestsellers in the UK and America.

Books by Maxim Jakubowski

Keeper
By Johana Gustawsson
Translated by Maxim Jakubowski

An abduction in London and the discovery of a body on the west coast of Sweden lead criminal profiler Emily Roys and true-crime writer Alexis Castells back to Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel, as they hunt a serial killer. Book two in the explosive, award-winning Roy & Castells series....

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Block 46
By Johana Gustawsson
Translated by Maxim Jakubowski

The hunt for a serial killer takes criminal profiler Emily Roys and true-crime writer Alexis Castells from London to Sweden, and back into the past, to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, in the first instalment an addictive, award-winning new series from the Queen of French Noir

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