>I have participated in – and finished – my first reading challenge ever!
The challenge is hosted by Kay of J.Kay´s book blog. The main rule is: read twelve different sub-genres of thrillers in 2009. And here you have my twelve books including links to each review. Thanks Kay for a wonderful challenge.
My Thriller Dozen:
1) Anne Holt, What Never Happens/Det som aldrig sker – serial killer thriller
2) Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi/A for alibi – private detective mystery
3)Kerstin Ekman, Blackwater/Hændelser ved vand – psychological thriller.
4) Ingrid Hedström, The Schoolmistress of Villette/Lærerinden fra Villette – legal thriller.
5) Inger Frimansson, The Shadow in the Water/Skyggen i vandet – inverted mystery.
6) Ann Cleeves, The Crow Trap – eco thriller.
7) Mark Billingham, The Burning Girl/Den brændende pige – hard-boiled mystery.
8) Kjell Ole Dahl, The Fourth Man/Den fjerde røver – art crime/literary thriller.
9) Martin Edwards, The Coffin Trail – police procedural thriller.
10) Donna Moore, Go to Helena Handbasket – comic thriller.
11) Tana French, In the Woods/Skoven – murder mystery.
12) Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend/Vor Fælles Ven – historical thriller.
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>Congratulations on fulfilling the challenge in less than 3 months – what variety!
>Thank you, Steph. Variety was exactly what I tried to achieve – I bothered less with the question if it could really be called thriller or was just another crime novel (but don´t tell anyone ;)) I enjoyed most of them thoroughly, but 4, 5 and 8 are nothing special in my opinion.
>Congrats! I don’t join a lot of reading challenges, so I’ve actually never completed one. I did a blogging challenge one time, but that’s it. So I’m totally impressed 🙂
>Kim, I had certainly not expected that I would complete it so soon. But my blog is my own, and I enjoyed it, so why wait. I don´t know if I´ll have to make my own crime fiction challenge now to get some excitement and challenge in life. The good idea of a challenge is that it forces you to read books you wouldn´t have picked yourself – and many of these were really fine reading experiences.
>Way to go! I think I have only completed one book for this challenge, so I’d better get busy!
>That is quite a list, and some of those are lengthy books. Well done! I have read only 5 of those authors so I am very impressed..
>Thanks, Kay. I hope you are going to enjoy it – it was a good one 🙂 I´ll be there next year if you come up with something similar. Thanks, Norman. 4 and 5 are not translated, but as they were not very interesting anyway, there is no need to envy me those two. The others should be accessible, and generally really good books.
>Wow! You’re done already? That’s crazy. Good for you though, you have some great titles on this list.
>Lilly, you are welcome to ´borrow´ any of them you like 🙂 In the beginning I thought it might be difficult to come up with 12 different genres, but it wasn´t at all.