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In Norway, present and WWII, with The Redbreast. Off to Norway with The Redbreast. ... interesting) and Garnethill by Denise Mina which I really enjoyed and will continue with the series. Currently reading The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo which so far is a real page turner that I am loving. I am in Oslo, Norway in the late 90's (and on the Eastern Front in the mid 40's) in The Redbreast. Jeg ved ikke hvad der er oversat til norsk, men af skandinaviske krimiforfattere ville jeg anbefale:
Jo Nesbø Harry Hole serie - Norsk
Åsa Larsson Rebecka Martinsson serie - Svensk
Håkan Nesser Skyggerne og regnen - Svensk - jeg har også hørt meget godt om hans nye ... >>>>>5 & 18. Ohhhh. This is good news. I picked up Nesbo's The Redbreast from a clearance shelf without knowing anything about it. Now I'm eager to read it! ... books set in Asia (I won't repeat my previous post) I have been waiting (im)patiently for the next English translation in Jo Nesbo's series set in Oslo. These have been released in a non-linear sequence which I found slightly bewildering at the time. But I rush to add that it never detracted ... ... and naturally we stopped by the bookstore. I picked up the following:
The Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
Gone With the Windsors by Laurie Graham
Lone Star Rising by Elmer Kelton
Then when I got home the following books had arrived at my ... ... grain of wheat today I'm going on to J. G. Ballard's Crash. Among those hopefully I will get to this month Jo Nesbo's Redbreast, Jane Urquhart's The stone carvers, Assia Djebar's Fantasia and Halldor Laxness's The great weaver from Kashmir. ... the good word for Jo Nesbo as well. I've read, in English (because that's all I can read besides a smattering of Spanish), The Redbreast, Nemesis, and The Devil's Star.
I've also read the late Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which I really enjoyed, and I just finished ... ... version of Het dwaallicht. Reading #6 Jazzhelden, interviews by Koen Schouten for my music category and started with De roodborst by Jo Nesbø for my Scandinavian thrillers category. ... Saviano--an LT early reviewers copy so I'll probably get to it pretty soon.
Jar City--Arnaldur Indridason.
The Redbreast--Jo Nesbo
All of them fit into noir, crime fiction or true crime categorization.
Finishing up on A. Louise Staman's With the stroke of a pen--also a ... ... Last Rituals--Yrsa Sigurdardottir
16. The stone carvers--Jane Urquhart
17. The lavender way--Papalazarou
18. Redbreast--Jo Nesbo
19. Indignation--Philip Roth
20. Water-blue eyes --Domingo Villar
21. American Rust--Philipp Meyer
22. Fireworks--Angela Carter
... ... the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Shogun by James Clavell
5. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
6. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
7. Emma by Jane Austen
8. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
9. Anna Karenina by Leo To ... ... was perked after reading a early reviewers copy of Johan Thoerin's Echoes from the dead. On our radar is Jo Nesbo's The Redbreast. Other writers being preliminarily mentioned include Arnaldur Indridason, Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum, Stieg Larsson and a Scot Denise Mina. VIII. Cold cases (Scandinavian crime novels)
1. The redbreast - Jo Nesbø
2. De commissaris en het zwijgen - Håkan Nesser
3. Poortwachter - Kristian Lundberg
4. De vijfde vrouw - Henning Mankell
5. Maandagskinderen - Arnaldur Indriðason
6. Gerechtigheid - Stieg Larsson
7. Schad ... Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series is excellent. Set in Oslo, Norway, they are outstanding thrillers. This Harry, like Bosch, is a bit of a renegade in the Oslo Police force. So now you'll have 2 Harrys to keep tabs on! The problem here is not when the next book is going to be published, but when the ... My purchases over the long weekend were:
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
Suttree by Cormac McC ... ... Waters
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
Time Out London Eating and Drinking Guide for 2008
were added to the Library. ... you pick it up.
Also check out my colleague Don Bartlett's translations of Jo Nesbø: The Devil's Star and The Redbreast are available in the US.
I love Andrea Camilleri too, and at least 7 or 8 of them have been translated to English by the excellent Stephen Sartarelli ... ... complex relationships were very cleanly presented, without any telling needed.
Right now I am reading the 3. book in the Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbø. Probably the first crime novel I've read by a Norwegian writer. I'm only halfway through, but Rødhals seems like a very good book so ... ... the second book, Dead at Daybreak, is the best of the three; they're all worthy of a read, though.
Now, I just read The Redbreast and The Devil's Star, both by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo, and I am greatly impressed. I'll let the Washington Post* tell you about The Redbreast here: ... There's a book called The Redbreast that will be published this December. It's a mystery set in Norway, partly during WWII and partly in the last years of the twentieth century. The Norwegian edition has already won awards.
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