![]() ![]() My favourite of the crime novels in this collection is an easy one, Babylon by Camilla Ceder.įor other bloggers’ choices of books of the month for October, see Mysteries in Paradise.Īlthough I didn’t post any reviews here on Petrona during September, three of my pieces came out at Euro Crime: Vanishing Point by Val McDermid, “an excellent mixture of media-inspired, over-the-top drama and intense suspense as the hunt for Jimmy seems to be doomed to fail. ![]() Of the crime novels I read, two are Swedish, one Finnish, one Norwegian, one Irish, one Scottish and one from the USA. I read one non-crime novel, The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling, a depressing and bleak account of modern social hypocrisy and the misery of families (some of them with the veneer of social respectability, some not). My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen – review submitted to Euro CrimeĪutumn Killing by Mons Kallentoft – review submitted to Euro Crime, book courtesy of Sarah Ward ![]() Other than that, I read a few other crime novels: The other two reviews are of novels: Too Close for Comfort by Niamh O’Connor and Babylon by Camilla Ceder, translated (from the Swedish) by Marlaine Delargy. One of them is of a non-fiction book, Andrea Camilleri: the Companion to the Mystery Fiction, by Lucia Rinaldi, which will fulfil anyone’s curiosity about the Montalbano oeuvre in book and screen form. At Euro Crime during October, three of my reviews appeared. ![]()
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