The novels in the Black Spring Crime Series—many of them their authors’ debuts—push the boundaries of genre and illuminate the expressive power of the genre’s bounds in the process. They foreground survivors and outsiders, antiheroes and unreliable narrators. Luca Veste writes in his new foreword to one of the editions that it’s “like nothing you’ve read before.” When we met with the Black Spring Press Group team at London Book Fair in 2023, the meeting already had a sense of gravitas and exc...

The novels in the Black Spring Crime Series—many of them their authors’ debuts—push the boundaries of genre and illuminate the expressive power of the genre’s bounds in the process. They foreground survivors and outsiders, antiheroes and unreliable narrators. Luca Veste writes in his new foreword to one of the editions that it’s “like nothing you’ve read before.” When we met with the Black Spring Press Group team at London Book Fair in 2023, the meeting already had a sense of gravitas and exc...