TOP READS 2010

You can see my 2010 top Eurocrime reads here at the website.

They were:

Hypothermia: Arnaldur Indridason translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.

Three Seconds: Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom translated from the Swedish by Kari Dickson.

Murder at the Savoy: Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate

The Snowman: Jo Nesbo translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

The Woman from Bratislava: Leif Davidsen translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland

and just missing out were.

Red Wolf: Liza Marklund translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith

Bad Intentions: Karin Fossum translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund

No surprises there as they are all translated Nordic crime fiction.

But my top non-European reads during 2010 were more varied in location as they were set across the globe in Australia, Brazil,, South Africa and Argentina:

Truth: Peter Temple

Every Bitter Thing: Leighton Gage

Blood Safari: Deon Meyer translated from the Afrikaans by K.L.Seegers

Needle in Haystack: Ernesto Mallo translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar

My top reads set in England were:

Blue Rondo: John Lawton

The Arsenic Labyrinth: Martin Edwards

and the most surprisingly enjoyable book of the year, Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, which had so much more characterization and social commentary than I expected.