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The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen

By crimefictionlover

13 October, 2015

Translated by William Frost — Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen is now one of the country’s top literary exports. The jacket of The Hanging Girl – the sixth Department Q novel, featuring Carl Mørck – proclaims sales of 12.5 million copies. The author’s creation of a separate department…

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The Father by Anton Svensson

By Jeremy Megraw

11 October, 2015

The success of Scandinavian television crime shows like Wallander, The Killing, and The Bridge has emboldened some of the region’s seasoned creators to try their hand in the crime fiction market. An interesting new feature we’re seeing in this trend is the emergence of some…

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Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashion

By nagaisayonara

9 October, 2015

Translated by Alexander O Smith — It’s no exaggeration to say that Keigo Higashino is a phenomenon in Japan. Popular and multi-award winning, he’s been putting out books steadily for the past 30 years, which means there’s a rich vein of potential translations to mine. Journey Under…

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Blood and Bone by VM Giambanco

By DavidPrestidge

3 October, 2015

Written by VM Giambanco — The London-based author introduced us to Detective Alice Madison in The Gift of Darkness in 2013 and followed it with The Dark the following year. Madison is a complex and conflicted woman, who fled an abusive home in her teens…

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The Ville Rat by Martin Limon

By RoughJustice

30 September, 2015

This is the 10th novel in the Sergeant George Sueno series that began with Jade Lady Burning in 1998. The author Martin Limon is a US Army veteran who spent a decade in South Korea, where the series is set. The books are narrated by…

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A Taste of Ashes by Tony Blank

By Keith Nixon

29 September, 2015

Detective Inspector Bob Valentine has recently returned to work in the West Scotland town of Ayr after being stabbed in the heart on a previous case. A rare night out with his long suffering and concerned family is interrupted by a murder. A man has been discovered…

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The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

By crimefictionlover

25 September, 2015

Translated by George Goulding — There has been huge anticipation for this book, which carries on the story begun by Stieg Larsson in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and which continued in The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the…

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Tennison by Lynda La Plante

By DavidPrestidge

23 September, 2015

Jane Tennison, a young policewoman fresh out of Hendon Training College, makes the daily journey from her parents’ comfortable flat in Maida Vale to Hackney. It’s a grim place and resolutely working class. Being a woman police constable in 1972 – the gender distinction was…

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The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen

The Father by Anton Svensson

Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashion

Blood and Bone by VM Giambanco

The Ville Rat by Martin Limon

A Taste of Ashes by Tony Blank

The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

Tennison by Lynda La Plante

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