Even though easter in the year in many ways will be different for most of us, the traditions could help to provide a sense of normalcy.
Here is an overview with reviews of a handful of this year’s fresh books that fall under an expanded crime category.
“Fallesjuke” by Randi Fuglehaug
FORTELLERTALENT.
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Randi Fuglehaug debuts in years “Fallesjuke”. The main character Agnes Tveit is a new member of staff reporter in the local newspaper at home, and in the middle of a case with a sabotaged parachute. This is a crime of extreme sports and revenge on Vossevangen.
Randi Fuglehaug is an obvious fortellertalent. Large batches of the novel is characterized by linguistic excess and vigour.
“Halvmorderen” by Håkan Features
IN the upper echelon.
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A 73-year-old begins to write down the more or the less trustworthy the story of his life. He must undertake a private investigation to locate a mysterious woman from the past. At the same time he begins to dig into its own memory, to find out where it really was that it all went wrong.
Håkan Technologies is one of Sweden’s most steady suppliers of kvalitetskrim. This year’s novel, “Halvmorderen”, is located entirely in the upper echelon of his extensive production.
< p> “A free agent” by John le CarréYOUTHFUL.
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Nestoren among spionforfatterne, John le Carré (88) is out with a new novel in English, and sounds more youthful and upessimistisk than in a long time. In this year’s novel, it is no longer the communists against the capitalists. The enemy is now defined as nasjonalpopulister and narcissistic diktatorspirer, personified by Putin, Trump and Brexit.
John le Carré is still just as sophisticated, and still just as furious at the political dumskap. It’s nice for readers to come back time and time again.
“Dull horses” by Mick Herron
BRITISH WIT.
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“Dull horses” is the first novel by Mick Herron in a new series about the dysfunctional agents in Slough House in London. Here are collected the losers in the british intelligence – agents who, for one reason or another have ended up in disgrace.
A young boy is kidnapped and threatened with execution by a gang of islamists, or possibly right-wing extremist. When all the stars in the MI5 fails, reservelaget in Slough House to step in to rescue the situation. “Dull horses” is a very british novel, with the typical british wit.
A cleverly agentroman where underdogene shows that they can bite. Compelling and well-written.
“Rebellion” by C. J. Sansom
DRAMATIC HISTORIETIME.
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the Lawyer and the historian C. J. Sansom is out with a new novel from the Tudor era. For the seventh time, he sends London-sakføreren Matthew Shardlake out to resolve complex and delicate issues. Stridens core this time, landowners who fences in public areas to sauebeite, and the people’s revolt against this.
In the “Rebellion” uses Sansom less known, but still very dramatic events from the 1500-century England, and can be nice to fill 750 pages.
As it says in the review: “the Novel works as historietime, krimroman with forviklingar and reflection of the righteousness and rettsinn “.
“Other gods” by Jørgen Brekke
SPARK AND PROFIT.
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At the opposite end of the page numbers-the scale, we find this book.
mystery writer Jørgen Brekke is the first in a new series of ten novels about each of their bids, written by ten Norwegian writers. “Other Gods” is about commandment number one: Thou shalt have no other gods before me
This is a psychological triangle drama about a vekkelsespredikant that meets their personal metoo from the environment around a christian church on the South coast. The novel is only a little under a hundred and fifty pages. Seen this way reminds the about a long, classic krimnovelle.
the Writing is characterized by spare and surplus, with nice flow and good observations.
“Night,” by Bernard Minier
CONJURES the UNCANNY.
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In the opening of this French krimmen we find ourselves in a freezing cold, exotic land, far to the north. Norway. After each makes the story jumped to Toulouse in France.
It is to find a child. The only thing known is a photograph and a name, Gustav. The child underlines the skjebnefellesskapet between the good and the evil power of the darkness of this literary universe
With a starting point in a relatively down-to-earth politikrim, is drawn a further universe that recalls the more about skrekkens, myth is, religion or superheltenes.
Minier is very skilled in to conjure the uncanny. He also has a separate layer to keep the tension at just.
“Spy and traitor” by Ben Macintyre
DOCUMENTARY THRILLER.
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The cold war wakes up to new life in this hybrid of dokumentarbok and edge espionage thriller.
It is a nerve-wracking agenthistorie from reality about the man who revealed Treholt, and almost had to remedy with his life for it.
“Spy and traitor” is a brilliant insight into an era that seems both familiar and bizarre. It is nostalgic and skrekkinngytende .
< p> “My sister is the serial killer” of Oyinkain Braithwaitesoap opera FEEL.
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the Story of the toug sisters in Lagos has received homage from critics in a number of countries. The one sister is in their eyes, ugly as ass, but sensible and practical bent. The other is as beautiful as a goddess, but with a propensity to stick the knife into all the men she meets.
a Little såpeoperaaktig, believe The literary critic, not as impressed as other critics, and think something is “lost in translation”:
“In his original nigerian-English edition is “My Sister, the Serial Killer” quite entertaining. In the Norwegian version appear all viraken around this – strictly speaking, not particularly good debutromanen – as the book’s perhaps the greatest mystery.”
You can consider what you think yourself.
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