A few comments and thoughts about crime books set on the mainland of Europe, with titbits about real eurocrime. We hear so much about crime in the USA that many people imagine that Europe is a crime free zone. In crime fiction Europe has become a real challenger to the Americans, but unfortunately real life crime especially in Britain is increasing as well.
As we don´t have an Armistice Day in Denmark, your poppies mainly remind me of some fine British crime novels. There is a Lord Peter Wimsey story (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club), and the first of Andrew Taylor´s Lydmouth mysteries (An Air that Kills).
Yes, of course, but we could have had something corresponding to it. It is not until this year we have had a national remembrance day for soldiers dying in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most Danes seem to ignore or forget that we are in fact a war-faring nation so soldiers who return home, wounded or traumatized, must feel alienated indeed.
As we don´t have an Armistice Day in Denmark, your poppies mainly remind me of some fine British crime novels. There is a Lord Peter Wimsey story (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club), and the first of Andrew Taylor´s Lydmouth mysteries (An Air that Kills).
ReplyDeleteDorte, you were neutral in World War I so probably that is the reason for no Armistice Day?
ReplyDeleteYes, of course, but we could have had something corresponding to it. It is not until this year we have had a national remembrance day for soldiers dying in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most Danes seem to ignore or forget that we are in fact a war-faring nation so soldiers who return home, wounded or traumatized, must feel alienated indeed.
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