Every story in this handsomely packaged book is written by a Nordic author whether they’re from the likes of Norway, Sweden and Iceland or all the way over in the Faroe Islands.
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An arresting new crime series sounds off with Emma Viskic’s novel Resurrection Bay
If you’re looking for one of the most promising debuts in Australian crime fiction take a trip to Resurrection Bay
Probing Friedrich Durrenmatt’s nightmare detective novel Suspicion
Durrenmatt often turns the detective genre on its head. Sometimes the crimes just don’t get solved.
The Judge and His Hangman: When the reader becomes a pawn in a crime writer’s wicked game
The Judge and His Hangman could be devoured in a single sitting, its haunting contents continuing to unspool for days after the backcover folds over.
A desert trip to cherish: Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Sand is an oasis of literary ideas
As if Graham Greene took The Comedians and got Hunter S Thompson to take it out the brain-boiling wilderness for a spot of fear and loathing.
The Executioner Weeps: A heady tale of memory loss and dread by Frederic Dard
Reading The Executioner Weeps is reminder of how direct and well-paced a crime novel can be.

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