Category: crime thriller
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October is a Great Month for Nordic Noir
Often I will put books on hold with the library and they all tend to come in at once – or in a very short time period. This is what is happening right now. I’ve had many items on hold for months which have started to arrive. First I got Phantom by Jo Nesbø. I…
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Gone Girl
By Gillian Flynn Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Crown Publishers, 2012 This book has had over eight hundred holds on it in my library system for the past couple of months. It is the must read of 2012. I think I first became aware of it through EarlyWord, but it wasn’t until I put…
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
By Jussi Adler-Olsen; translated by Lisa Hartford Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Dutton, 2011 Genres: Mystery, police procedural, Scandinavian noir, suspense, thriller, crime thriller Series: Department Q; 1 ISBN: 9780525952480 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 396 Setting: Copenhagen, Denmark Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide…
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Caught Stealing
By Charlie Huston Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ballantine Books, 2004 Genres: Thriller, crime thriller, suspense Series: Hank Thompson series; 1 ISBN: 9780345464774 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 240 Setting: Lower East Side, NYC (Manhattan) Time period: 2002 or 2003 Plot summary: Hank Thompson has had a really bad day which has stretched…
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