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Closer inspection reveals the expansion of the sticker range on the theme of "the next Stieg Larsson" which is on Jo Nesbo's books, with these two offerings:
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And there's no comparison between Lackberg and Nesbo, Harry Hole would eat Patrick Hedstrom for breakfast.
Here's another baffling comparison - for The Day is Dark, which is published in July:
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4 comments:
The other day I saw that a literary agent encouraged prospective clients to ´sell their works in one sentence´ - perhaps I should try ´the new Yrsa Sigurdardottir´?
Karen - I must admit, those comparisons sometimes completely baffle me. I understand, I suppose, why a publisher might encourage such a thing, but.....
It was a lovely day, but as you say, those stickers! It was nice to see that Karin Altvegen has been re-released with new covers (without any stickers!) - One of her books, "Missing", covers similar themes to The Girl Who Played With Fire but is much shorter, and possibly even better...certainly as good! So I recommend that to anyone who wants a Stieg Larsson-like fix. Altvegen's other books are also very good, and different from each other.
I ran into one of those Larsson stickers here in the US on the rerelease mass market of Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers.
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