Cited on Sausage Hall & The Ghosts of Altona

I'll soon be posting the Euro Crime review team's favourite discoveries of 2015, and their favourite reads of 2015 will appear in early 2016. In the meantime here are a couple of recent quotes from reviews that have made it onto the back of the (next) book.

1. Rich Westwood on Christina James's Sausage Hall:

2. Ewa Sherman on Craig Russell's The Ghosts of Altona:

Cover Reveal: Gunnar Staalesen's Cold Hearts (& more)

Arcadia have spiffing new covers for their Gunnar Staalesen books. The eagerly awaited new Varg Veum novel, Cold Hearts, translated by Don Bartlett, is scheduled for July...

... along with a reissue of Yours Until Death translated by Margaret Amassian.

A reissue of The Writing on the Wall, translated by Hal Sutcliffe, is currently scheduled for early Autumn but this may change. A quote from Maxine's review of The Consorts of Death is on the back cover.

Cited on Stolen Souls

The paperback release of Stuart Neville's Stolen Souls is out on 14 February complete with a quote on the back from Lynn Harvey's review for Euro Crime (read it here):

Cited on The Winter of the Lions

The paperback release of Jan Costin Wagner's The Winter of the Lions, translated by Anthea Bell, has just been published and my local library was very swift to get it. There is a quote from Maxine's review of the trade paperback edition on the back:

You can read her full review here.

BSP: Cited in White Death

Spotted this today in the paperback edition of White Death by Tobias Jones, a quote from Laura's review:

More Euro Crime citations can be found here.

Cited on The Outsiders

A quote from Terry's review for Euro Crime of Gerald Seymour's A Deniable Death appears on the back of his new book,The Outsiders:

Cited on Ashes by Sergios Gakas

I am very fond of Ashes by Sergios Gakas so I was very chuffed to see a quote from my review on the reverse of the paperback edition which came out on 5 July.

My review in full.

I've been keeping a record of quotes from Euro Crime used on books, though it's not comprehensive, here.

Euro Crime Cited on The Black Path

A quote from Maxine's review of Asa Larsson's Until Thy Wrath Be Past has been used on the back of the hardback release of The Black Path which is published 7 June by MacLehose Press.Here are Maxine's reviews of Until Thy Wrath Be Past and The Black Path (US Edition).

Cited on To Tell The Truth

I've had sight of an early copy of Anna Smith's To Tell The Truth which is published by Quercus on 2 February and on the reverse is a quote from Amanda Gillies' review of The Dead Won't Sleep, the first in the Rosie Gilmour series.

Cited on Cold Cruel Winter

Chris Nickson, author of Broken Token, the first in a series featuring Constable of Leeds Richard Nottingham in the 1730s, kindly let me know that a Euro Crime review was quoted on the back cover of his next book, Cold Cruel Winter. As we'd been sent the pdf to review I hadn't realised. He kindly sent me a photo but I'd already checked it out of the library (another 3p? PLR for Chris):



The Euro Crime review by Geoff of Cold Cruel Winter will be uploaded very soon. The review by Michelle of Broken Token is here.

After reading the review, if you fancy getting hold of Broken Token then the author has a few copies left at a bargain £3 plus postage (see here.) This is due to Creme de la Crime now forming part of Severn House which does mean (from my experience working in a community library) that new books in the Creme de la Crime imprint will be more widely available in libraries and in larger quantities.

Cited in The Leopard

I confess to jumping up and down a little when a review copy of the paperback edition of The Leopard by Jo Nesbo, tr. Don Bartlett arrived yesterday. Not just because there is no mention of Stieg Larsson on the front cover but also look what's inside (click on it to make it readable!):





..yes a quote from my review of the hardback edition. As Jo Nesbo/Don Bartlett conspire to make Harry Hole one of my favourite series, I am doubly chuffed.

Euro Crime Quote in Following the Detectives

I've had a few minutes to peruse a library copy of Following the Detectives, which I mentioned last year and was pleased and surprised to see a quote from Maxine's review of Arctic Chill in the Arnaldur Indridason section:




The photo is taken with my phone, hence the poor quality.

More Euro Crime Reviews Quoted

Another two quotes from Euro Crime reviews have appeared on recent publications.

Craig Sisterson's review of Lennox by Craig Russell is quoted on the front page of the paperback:


and Amanda Gillies's review of Sarah Rayne's Ghost Song is quoted on the back of the upcoming paperback release of House of the Lost.




More citations can be found here.

Euro Crime quoted on Hunt for the Bear

I received a review copy of the paperback release of Derek Haas's Hunt for the Bear and on the back cover there is a quote from "EUROCRIME"!

The quote is taken from Michelle Peckham's review of the trade paperback edition.


I have been cataloguing (some of) Euro Crime's citations on the blog.

Euro Crime quoted on Close-Up

One of Maxine at Petrona's recent posts alerted me to the fact that her review is quoted on the first page of the paperback edition of Esther Verhoef's Close-Up. I popped into the library on the way back from collecting my new glasses this morning and there it was on the quick pick stand:



Interestingly, the library has classed it as "adventure" rather than thriller or crime and Waterstone's shelves it in the fiction not crime section.

Read all of Maxine's review here.

ExCitations

I am always really pleased when eurocrime reviews get quoted in books and here's some I've spotted in the last few days:

Inside the rejacketed paperback of Ann Cleeves's Raven Black there is a quote from Maxine's review of White Nights

















Open up the cover of the forthcoming paperback of The End of the World in Breslau by Marek Krajewski, tr. Danusia Stok and you'll see a quote from Fiona's review:














and finally, turn to the back cover of the new paperback edition of Karin Alvtegen's Shadow, tr. McKinley Burnett, where there's is a quote from Maxine's review:





[Click on the images to get a closer look.]

The Crossing Places - Euro Crime review quote

Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places has recently come out in paperback and I was delighted to spot a quote from a Euro Crime review inside a library copy:


The whole review, written by Pat Austin, can be read here.
(NB. At the time the review was posted it was not widely known that the author also writes as Domenica de Rosa.)

The sequel, The Janus Stone, will be published in February 2010. here's the synopsis:
Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway - minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out - and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey tells him that two children did go missing from the home forty years before - a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the scent by frightening her half to death...

Euro Crime website mentioned in the Washington Post

A few weeks ago I was contacted by journalist Malin Rising who was asking questions about Scandinavian crime fiction in translation. I passed the questions onto Euro Crime's Scandinavian experts Crime Scraps and Petrona who of course replied swiftly and informatively (for which I thank them most heartedly). The resulting article has now been published in the Washington Post (I've bolded the Euro Crime reference!):

[Stieg]Larsson is the latest of many Swedish crime writers to win international acclaim, from the team of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo in the 1960s to the more recent Henning Mankell, creator of the gloomy detective Kurt Wallander in such books as "Faceless Killers," "Sidetracked," "Firewall" and "Before the Frost."

The Scandinavian crime writing tradition also includes Denmark's Peter Hoeg, whose "Smilla's Sense of Snow" became an international best seller in the 1990s and a movie starring Julia Ormond, Vanessa Redgrave and Gabriel Byrne.

Set in a scenic Nordic landscape of serene lakes and lonely red cabins, Larsson's trilogy follows computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomqvist as they get entangled in a series of murder mysteries. Like Mankell, Larsson weaves in social commentary, with democracy and women's rights as prominent themes.

That, the exotic setting and an introspective streak are what set apart Swedish crime writing in a genre dominated by U.S. and British novelists, says Maxine Clarke, a critic at the Britain-based Web site Euro Crime, which specializes in European crime literature.

In Swedish crime novels, Clarke says, "one gets to know the characters' domestic lives and concerns as background to the plots, one feels they are real people rather than, in some other thriller genres, characters who only seem to exist to take part in the novel's main story."

The whole article can be found, here.

Euro Crime cited on The Outcast

It's long been a secret hope of mine that a quote from a review written for Euro Crime will be used on the front/back/inside of a book and very excitingly, it has come to pass. The new book by Michael Walters, The Outcast, the third in the Inspector Nergui series, features a quote from Maxine's review of The Adversary on the back of the jacket. (Read the rest of her review, here.)




Synopsis: Ulaan Bataar bakes in the heat of an unseasonably hot summer as it prepares to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Mongol Empire. But the city is facing a series of unexpected crises - an apparent suicide bomber shot down by police in Suuk Bataar Square, a dead body in the City Museum re-enacting an incident from ancient Mongolian history, an explosion at a political rally, and yet another body found murdered nearby. For Doripalam, now boss of the Serious Crime Team, the crises are growing increasingly personal. As he struggles to keep control of his own personal and professional life, one of his own team is arrested.Solongo, Doripalam's wife is facing her own challenges and finds herself entangled with murder and with the fugitive officer. Worst of all, Nergui, now an influential figure in the Ministry of Security, appears to be pursuing an agenda all of his own. The roots of all this trouble lie in the past - in the history of the Mongol nation, as well as in the more recent legacies of the communist state. As the sun beats down, a chilling figure emerges - a figure from Nergui's past, an outcast, who has returned to exact revenge, both on Nergui himself and on the nation that rejected him.

An excerpt of The Outcast can be read on Michael Walters' website.