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Dark As My Heart by Antti Tuomainen

23 October, 2015

Translated by Lola Rogers — This is the second novel Finnish author and poet Antti Tuomainen has seen translated into English. His first was the hauntingly ambiguous mystery The Healer, in which a man went searching for his missing wife in a near-future Helsinki on the verge of…

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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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Oblivion

By DavidPrestidge

6 October, 2015

As titles go, Arnaldur Indridason’s Oblivion is pretty downbeat, but this is an enthralling look at the younger days of the glum Icelandic Detective Erlendur. Fans of the mature Elendur will know that one of his chief fixations is about missing persons, and this is…

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Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason

By crimefictionlover

13 July, 2015

Translated by Victoria Cribb — Released in Iceland as Kamp Knox last November, Oblivion is the second of Arnaldur Indridason’s ‘young Erlendur‘ books. Similar to the way in which ITV gave us Endeavour – a look at Morse before he became a dour, old detective – here…

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Taking Pity by David Mark

By DeathBecomesHer

10 July, 2015

We’ve followed the careers of Hull author David Mark and his police detective Aector McAvoy since the writer’s debut novel back in 2012. Aector McAvoy’s journey began in The Dark Winter, where we met the detective sergeant and his son as they enjoyed a hot chocolate in a cafe…

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In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward

By crimefictionlover

26 June, 2015

Family history is a remarkable obsession shared by millions of people in Britain and around the world. They say it’s a pastime more popular than fishing. And it has some remarkable similarities with crime fiction. There are so many mysteries to be solved as you…

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Prey by James Carol

By Raven

24 February, 2015

The third in James Carol‘s serial killer series follows the very successful Broken Dolls and Watch Me, and features ex-FBI psychological profiler Jefferson Winter. The hook of the series is that Winter himself is the son of a convicted serial killer, and he’s in a…

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Vanished by Elizabeth Hester

By DavidPrestidge

17 January, 2015

Evelyn Baine is a top profiler with the FBI. Her speciality is human behaviour, but her own personal story informs everything she does. She is of mixed race, and after a childhood where she was rescued from a drunken mother and her abusive boyfriend, then…

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Dark As My Heart by Antti Tuomainen

The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Oblivion

Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason

Taking Pity by David Mark

In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward

Prey by James Carol

Vanished by Elizabeth Hester

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