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Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

23 November, 2021

In our first ever – and hopefully annual – Crime Fiction Lover Awards, we bring you our shortlist for the Best Crime Novel in Translation for 2021. Have you read any of them? Which one is best? Have your say by voting via our online…

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Cold as Hell by Lilja Sigardardóttir

By Paul Burke

16 September, 2021

Translated by Quentin Bates — Multi-award winning Icelandic author and playwright Lilja Sigardardóttir really grabbed our attention with her Reykjavik Noir trilogy. Snare, Trap and Cage are perfectly encapsulated noir stories about ordinary people caught up in the underbelly of Icelandic society. Yet when you…

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On the Radar: Does it get any colder?

By crimefictionlover

31 August, 2021

The last couple of weeks have been light on new books, so we took a break from On the Radar, but we’re back with six killer reads for the end of August. Our lead is something new from ice queen Lilja Sigurdardottir, who starts a…

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Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

16 November, 2020

Translated by Quentin Bates — With her new standalone novel, Betrayal, Icelandic crime author Lilja Sigurdardottir returns to themes such as misogyny and abuse. What’s new is that the backdrop is not the world of drug trafficking as it was in books like Snare and…

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On the Radar: Five new crime novels – discover your next read

By crimefictionlover

8 October, 2020

From historical crime fiction through to psychological thrillers, adventuresome crime solving and even a puzzle novel, this week’s new books will hopefully tide you over – especially if you’re pinned down by the latest COVID restrictions. Crime fiction is certainly infectious, but we think it’s…

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Six Icelandic crime authors you should be reading

By crimefictionlover

30 September, 2020

Ironic, isn’t it? Iceland has the lowest murder rate in the world and yet it seems to have the highest density of top crime authors. By our calculations, about one in every 50,000 Icelanders is producing better than average crime novels, which are being translated…

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Three, two, one...

By crimefictionlover

2 August, 2019

On the Radar — This week our new books column brings you five new ways to get your crime fiction mojo going. Starting off in Sweden we have the first of two Nordic noir thrillers, plus two contemporary American authors and some historical crime fiction…

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The top eight Nordic noir novels of 2018

By crimefictionlover

20 December, 2018

Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. They were the domain of the Northmen, the dreaded pagan hordes that swept through Europe around the end of the first millennia with their crazy, one-eyed gods, war hammers and long blonde hair. A similar though altogether more pleasant…

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Best crime novel in translation 2021 shortlist

Cold as Hell by Lilja Sigardardóttir

On the Radar: Does it get any colder?

Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

On the Radar: Five new crime novels – discover your next read

Six Icelandic crime authors you should be reading

Three, two, one...

The top eight Nordic noir novels of 2018

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