Thursday, 5 January 2017
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Police (Harry Hole Series) by Jo Nesbø
Paperback: The police urgently need Harry Hole.
A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.
But this time, Harry cannot help.
For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry is not in a position to protect anyone.
Least of all himself.
Police (2013) is the tenth book in the brilliant Harry Hole series set in Norway. It is translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.
The next and eleventh book in the endlessly twisting Harry Hole series - The Thirst - will be out on 20 April 2017.
About the author and translator: Jo Nesbø is a musician, songwriter, economist and prize-winning author. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson). His bestselling Harry Hole series has been a huge success in the UK and across the world.
Don Bartlett lives in Norfolk and works as a freelance translator of Scandinavian literature. He has translated, or co-translated, Norwegian novels by Lars Saabye Christensen, Roy Jacobsen, Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs, Kjell Ola Dahl, Gunnar Staalesen and Pernille Rygg.
Rating: 7/5
Sunday, 1 January 2017
Deadly Lessons (True Crime) by Ken Englade
Paperback: Twenty-three-year-old Pam Smart used sex, lies and money to coax her young lover into killing her husband.
Newlyweds Pam and Gregg Smart seemed like the ideal American couple. He was a bright, up-and-coming insurance executive who had many friends and loved golfing. She was the beautiful former cheerleader and daughter of an airline pilot who was envied by everyone who knew her.
But on 1 May 1990, their apparently perfect life was shattered when Gregg was murdered in the couple's New Hampshire townhouse - a single shot to his head. Three months later, his grieving widow was arrested and charged with the brutal crime.
In the dramatic trial that followed, a dark portrait of Pam Smart emerged - one of a cold manipulator who called herself 'the Maiden of Metal' and seduced virgin Bill Flynn with a striptease to Van Halen music and erotic scenes from the film Nine and a Half Weeks - until her hooks were so deep into him he was willing to do anything for her.
Including murder.
Deadly Lessons (1993) is the true story of a seductress, a student and a cold-blooded murder. Master of true crime, Ken Englade, paints a portrait of a trial that gripped the nation in its scintillating tale of sex and murder. At its center is a woman who never quite grew up, and the reason why she had her husband murdered is the most stunning twist.
About the author: Kenneth F Englade is a New Mexico-based author and investigative reporter who has published nine books dealing with high profile trials. His latest book, Meltdown in Haditha: The Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians by US Marines and the Failure of Military Justice, was published in 2015 by McFarland & Co. He also published five historical novels dealing with the pre-Civil War West. His books have been published in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
He is a veteran journalist who has worked on newspapers and for fourteen years with United Press International, including three years in Asia where he covered the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon. Beyond Reason, his book about a University of Virginia coed and her German boyfriend who conspired to kill the woman’s parents was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. From 2000-2006, he was a public information officer for the Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency. In 2010, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Louisiana State University School of Mass Communications in recognition of his career achievements.
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