TOP TRANSLATED READS OF 2009

You can see all the Euro Crime reviewers Top Reads of 2009 here.

My own translated crime fiction choices had a distinctly Northern European bias.

Best translated crime fiction read in 2009:

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest: Stieg Larsson translated by Reg Keeland

The Return: Hakan Nesser translated by Laurie Thompson and here

The Darkest Room: Johan Theorin translated by Marlaine Delargy

End of the World in Breslau: Marek Krajewsk translated by Danusia Stok

The Redeemer: Jo Nesbo translated by Don Bartlett

I also read an exceptional book about the lives of ordinary people living in Nazi Germany:

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada translated by Michael Hofmann.

This masterpiece written in 1947 while not strictly crime fiction was by far the most moving book I read this year and deserves a special mention.