Euro Crime News

Lackberg, Mankell & Larsson - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

You know you have turned into a curmudgeon when...you won't read an article in a major English-language newspaper that discusses an author called STIG LARSON. - Bernadette

"Laura Wilson on Lost World by Patricia Melo, Cold to the Touch by Frances Fyfield, The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell and Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn" - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo. - Karen Meek

The Night Following by Morag Joss. - Karen Meek

This is the 13th of Staalesen's 16 books about Veum. Arcadia pledges to publish them all; let's hope in Don Bartlett's customarily flawless translation. - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

Excellent! - Maxine

via cfr - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

"The $13 million pic, the first in the "Millennium" trilogy based on Stieg Larsson's international bestsellers, is slated for U.S. release early next year." - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

"But this is a strong and satisfying conclusion to a massively ambitious, richly textured trilogy." - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

Well, but to be fair, it is not easy to write anything about the plot of book 3 without spoiling book 2. - Dorte Jakobsen

"speed, surprise, sensation, "underground stream of fury & hurt" " - Maxine

Lots of crime novels on the list. - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

While pleased to see so much crime fiction in there, the cynical side of me wonders how much of this is to do with marketing and how much to do with "best".....these novels are of course now being promoted via Times/WHS tie-ins etc. - Maxine

As with Norman's review at Crime Scraps, v positive. "What also impresses is Kerr's examination of how a man changes – and how he stays the same – over 20 years, when those two decades are so desperate and blood-spattered. And the way that, despite a casual attitude to murder, a murky war record and the bitterness of life torn asunder by war, Gunther remains a sympathetic character despite his methods of survival. " - Maxine

Joan Smith's review of the book in the same issue of the Sunday Times as this profile is here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol... . As usual could not find it via the Times website itself but got it through a Google search, then going via that to a blog which provided a link. Newspaper websites! The profile you link to states "review on p 49" (or whatever) but no direct link. - Maxine

Also an interesting comment at the Times profile about Stieg's nutty politics (in the commenter's view.) - Maxine

(graphic novel) - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

I think this quote from the review is very apt: "His phenomenal, if sadly posthumous, success comes from a combination of moral clarity and narrative skill rather than descriptive ability." - Maxine

via cfr - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

"This is visceral stuff: not, perhaps, Brookmyre on top form, but brimming with the scabrous inventiveness that is his métier." - Karen Meek from Bookmarklet

Not my cup of tea, based on the one by him I tried (and did not finish). - Maxine