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CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2017

28 December, 2017

Is it too negative to say that 2017 was not a sizzler for crime fiction? The much anticipated film version of Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman arrived on the silver screen and didn’t quite capture the thrilling edge that the books convey. Murder on the Orient…

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Top 10 Nordic noir novels of 2017

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18 December, 2017

They’ve been saying it wouldn’t last for a while now. And that tells you everything you need to know about Nordic noir. Although this year’s crop of books doesn’t have quite the same level of electric spark as last year – when we featured the…

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30 July, 2017

Written by Peter Hoeg, translated by Martin Aitken — Susan Svendsen and her family are away in India. Not together, mind you. Her husband, Laban, and twin boy and girl Harald and Thit, are there separately, and yet each member of the family is in…

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The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter, and more...

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28 July, 2017

On the Radar — We’ve been waiting for years for Karin Slaughter to write a book with ‘daughter’ in the title so that we could deploy an Iron Maiden pun, and she’s finally done it. However, just as it’s happened we can think of one….

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First look: The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg

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3 June, 2017

Long-term fans of Scandinavian crime fiction will know the name Peter Hoeg. He’s not a prolific author, but he wrote one of the defining books in this sub-genre of crime fiction in the early 90s – Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, or Frk Smillas fornemmelse for…

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The Susan Effect

CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2017

Top 10 Nordic noir novels of 2017

The Susan Effect

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter, and more...

First look: The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg

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