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Arnaldur Indridason–HYPOTHERMIA
Note: This novel was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Decade in England and was #2 on France’s bestseller list. Indridason was also WINNER of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel in...
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Manuel de Lope–THE WRONG BLOOD
“He had left his golden wedding ring, his wristwatch, his field glasses, and the folded sheet of untrimmed paper, the unenveloped letter that began with the words My Dear Love, with a request that they...
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Julia Franck–THE BLINDNESS OF THE HEART
Note: This novel was WINNER of the German Book Prize in 2007. “[Helene] liked the sweet scent of violets and their delicate appearance, but she admired the upright growth of roses at least as much,...
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Massimo Carlotto–BANDIT LOVE
“Your problem these days is getting information, and the cops are the best source available. They gather information, collect it in a central location, and it’s always for sale…Plus, all these...
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James Church–THE MAN WITH THE BALTIC STARE
“Major Kim had extraordinary authority, he was from the South, and Pyongyang had the indefinable feel of a tiny planet beginning to wobble on its axis. There were more babies, more children being...
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Howard Jacobson–THE FINKLER QUESTION
Note: This novel was WINNER of the Man Booker Prize for 2010. “Before he met Finkler [as a schoolboy], Treslove had never met a Jew. Not knowingly at least. He supposed a Jew would be like the word...
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Llwyd Owen–FAITH, HOPE & LOVE
Note: This novel was WINNER of the Welsh Language Book of the Year Prize in 2007. Author Llwyd Owen did the English translation himself. “Everything and everyone I ever had has gone up in smoke, but...
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Stuart Neville–COLLUSION
“Look, collusion worked all ways, all directions…Loyalists supplying Republicans with fake DVDs and Ecstasy tablets. Republicans wholesaling laundered diesel and bootleg vodka to Loyalists…And the...
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Bernhard Schlink–THE WEEKEND
“Did you ever imagine having to go to prison? I mean, the way an employee imagines being fired or a doctor imagines contracting an illness? A professional risk? Or did you think you’d keep going and...
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Mollie Panter-Downes–ONE FINE DAY
“Wealding [was] the perfect village in aspic, at the sight of which motorists applied their brakes, artists happily set up easels, cyclists dismounted and purchased picture postcards to send to their...
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