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:
Winning the CWA International Dagger (ahead of Stieg Larsson) isn't enough of a pull apparently.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:
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´?
ReplyDeleteKaren - I must admit, those comparisons sometimes completely baffle me. I understand, I suppose, why a publisher might encourage such a thing, but.....
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteI ran into one of those Larsson stickers here in the US on the rerelease mass market of Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers.
ReplyDelete