The Butterfly HouseTeresa Solana, translated by Peter Bush, Corylus Books, £9.99THERE are several kinds of crime novel. The bourgeois “English country-house mystery novel” (Raymond Chandler’s phrase), typified in Agatha Christie, has a great mind (Poirot) solving the murder. Peaceful village life then continues with the rotten apple in the barrel disposed of. These novels flourished in the 1930s, when insecurity, fear of communism and anxiety about fascism assailed the middle class.

MICHAEL EAUDE recommends an original writer, bending the normal boundaries of the crime genre to include social realities

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