New Reviews: Kirino, Larsson, Navarro, Tallis

The following reviews have been added to the review archive over on the main Euro Crime website:

New Reviews:

Going slightly farther afield, Rik Shepherd reviews Japan's Natsuo Kirino's Real World;

Maxine Clarke reviews the long awaited follow-up to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played With Fire;

Terry Halligan reviews Julia Navarro's The Bible of Clay which he found to be one of his favourite reads of 2008

and Norman Price was similarly enamoured of Frank Tallis's Darkness Rising which is the fourth outing for Vienna's Dr Max Liebermann.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here plus for those still thinking about their favourite books of 2008, there's a list (generated from my database) of British/European crime novels (written by British/Europeans) published in the UK in 2008, here. (I haven't yet updated it to include non-Europeans writing about Europe).

The competition is back - go here to see how you can win a copy of The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri.

Japanese crime fiction - some links

I've just finished Real World by Natsuo Kirino. This is her third book to be translated into English following on from Grotesque and Out. I certainly found it interesting if a little dark for my tastes. The narrators are teenagers and as it's an American English translation they do sound as if they're, like, totally from California.

In Catherine Sampson's top 10 Asian Crime Fiction she lists, Out plus some more Japanese crime titles including Murder At Mount Fuji by Shizuko Natsuki which I have had on my to be read pile since 1996...

More on Japanese crime fiction can be found at the Japan Visitor site.