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Nordic Noir November: Spotlight on Danish Crime Fiction

November 15, 2020

Happy Sunday, readers, and welcome back to our weekly spotlight on Scandinavian crime fiction! If you’re new to CBTB, every Sunday this November, I’ll be spotlighting crime fiction from a particular Nordic country. We’ve already explored Norwegian crime fiction and Swedish crime fiction, and this weekend, it’s Denmark’s turn! Denmark is home to two bestselling crime writers whose work helped introduce me to the Scandinavian crime fiction genre, writers who remain some of my favorites to this day,, and it’s also home to a number of up-and-coming crime writers whose novels are shaking up the genre, and delivering truly gripping and inventive stories. Today I’ll be walking you through my personal favorite Danish crime writers, and giving you tips for where to start with their work! I’ll add the same disclaimer here that I’ve had on my last couple Nordic Noir blog posts: this list is by no means an exhaustive rundown of all the Danish crime writers out there, simply a guide to my personal favorites, which I hope will help you embark on your own journey discovering their work!

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In Book Recommendation, Reading List, Scandinavian Crime Tags Nordic Noir November, Nordic Noir, Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Danish Crime Fiction, Sara Blaedel, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Katrine Engberg, Soren Sveistrup
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Nordic Noir November: Spotlight on Swedish Crime Fiction

November 8, 2020

Happy Sunday, readers, and welcome back to our weekly spotlight on Scandinavian crime fiction! If you’re new to CBTB, every Sunday this November, I’ll be spotlighting crime fiction from a particular Nordic country. Last Sunday, I shared a rundown of my personal favorite Norwegian crime writers, and this week, it’s Sweden’s turn! From iconic bestselling series to under-the-radar books, from serial killer thrillers to psychological thrillers and a whole lot more, there is so much fantastic crime fiction coming out of Sweden. Today I’ll be walking you through a rundown of my personal favorite Swedish crime writers, and giving you tips on where to start with their work. I’ll add the same disclaimer here that I did on last week’s blog post: this is by no means an exhaustive list of all the incredible Swedish crime writers out there (this list could go on and on if I didn’t cut it off somewhere!). Instead, this list is intended to give you a guide to my personal favorite (and most-recommended) Swedish crime writers!

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In Book Recommendation, Reading List, Scandinavian Crime Tags Nordic Noir, Nordic Noir November, Swedish Crime Fiction
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Nordic Noir November: Spotlight on Norwegian Crime Fiction

November 1, 2020

Happy Sunday, readers, and welcome to our first #NordicNoirNovember feature! If you’ve been around Crime by the Book for a while, you’ll know that I’m always looking for a reason to talk about my favorite crime fiction subgenre: Nordic Noir, aka Scandinavian Crime Fiction. This year, we’re celebrating Nordic Noir November here on CBTB! Every Sunday this November, I’ll be spotlighting a different Nordic country and my personal favorite crime writers from that country here on my blog, and on my Instagram account. To kick off our Nordic Noir November celebration, we’re starting with my personal favorite Nordic country to visit: Norway. From my favorite city, Oslo, to the country’s beautiful fjords and mountains, to smaller (and no less beautiful!) cities and towns in between, Norway is a country filled with stunning locations to visit, and since most of us have to stay home for the time being, now is the perfect time to “armchair travel” to this incredible part of the world. The authors highlighted in today’s blog post will take you from the streets of Oslo to the stunning and remote landscape of northern Norway and beyond, in some of my personal favorite crime books I’ve ever read.

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In Scandinavian Crime, Reading List Tags Nordic Noir November, Norwegian Crime Fiction, Norway, Jo Nesbo, Jorn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger, Samuel Bjork, Heine Bakkeid, Alex Dahl, Karin Fossum
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CBTB's Halloween 2020 Reading List

October 6, 2020

Friends, it’s the most wonderful time of year: spooky season!! Halloween is my favorite time of year (yes, I consider it a time of year—not just a single day!), and it’s the perfect time to cozy up with an extra-chilling crime, suspense, or thriller read. I’m so excited to share with you a blog post that has been quite a while in the making: my Halloween 2020 Reading List! While many (if not most!) of the books I read and cover here on Crime by the Book could fit on a Halloween reading list, the books I’ve chosen for this blog post have that little something extra that will make each of them perfect for Halloween reading (think: ghosts, supernatural sightings, extra-creepy villains, and more!). Dive on in and find your perfect Halloween read!

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In Reading List Tags Halloween Books, Halloween Reading, Riley Sager, Home Before Dark, The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware, C.J. Tudor, Kill Creek, Scott Thomas, Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel, Final Girls, Halloween 2020, Rachel Harrison, The Sandman, Lars Kepler, Birdman, Mo Hayder, The Nesting, C.J. Cooke, The Craftsman, Sharon Bolton, The Silence of the White City, Catherine House, Elisabeth Thomas, In the Vines, Shannon Kirk
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CBTB's Most-Anticipated Fall 2020 Crime Fiction Releases

September 1, 2020

The best time of year is upon us! As we head into the chillier months of the year, now is the perfect moment to start stocking up on some equally-chilling reads. In today’s blog post, I’m rounding up my personal most-anticipated releases of Fall 2020! This list by no means encompasses all of the thrilling new crime books that will be published this fall, but it does highlight the books I’m personally most excited to read, and most excited to talk about with you! For ease of reference, I’ve organized this blog post in order of publication date. Some of these books I’ve already been lucky enough to read, others are still on my fall TBR list—but all of them look poised to deliver some truly outstanding crime fiction storytelling. Dive into this blog post and start building your own Fall 2020 crime fiction reading list!

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In Reading List, Most Anticipated 2020 Tags Jo Nesbo, The Kingdom, One By One, Ruth Ware, Don't Look For Me, Wendy Walker, And Now She's Gone, Rachel Howzell Hall, To Tell You The Truth, Gilly Macmillan, The Nesting, C.J. Cooke, Confessions on the 7:45, Lisa Unger, Dear Child, Romy Hausmann, Invisible Girl, Lisa Jewell, The Witch Hunter, Max Seeck, Little Cruelties, Liz Nugent, Lazarus, Lars Kepler, Shed No Tears, Caz Frear, Snowdrift, Helene Tursten, The Dead Season, Tessa Wegert
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