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It seems like there's getting to be a bit less lag time between the publications of translated series items? We've gotten 4 Leena Lehtolainen Maria Kallio books since 2012 which is a rate of better than once a year from the same translator, and about the same from Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson (though it looks like he's got a few different ones).
OTOH, Tara Chace who translates the Martin Jensen books looks to be pretty busy, as she also does the increasingly popular Jo Nesbø's children's titles.
To be honest, I'm really liking the many of the translated offerings from the AmazonCrossing imprint. I haven't been very impressed by Amazon's other house imprints for the established author new publications/backlist genre stuff that they grabbed and view the ensuing exclusivity as no great loss, but there's often interesting-looking storylines/settings for their AC books.
I hope it does well enough that they'll keep doing more (apparently the overall sales for their house exclusives aren't all that great, according to Wikipedia, and perhaps thus why they keep popping up at $1.99 per in the daily deals, monthly genre, and Big Deal sales), or at least keep on with the translations from their established series, which should at least have some kind of guaranteed readership, even if it starts going into diminishing returns territory.
And I'm certainly willing to toss $1.99 a pop or less at the promising-looking ones when they go on sale, to encourage them to this end.
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