Category Archives: Jussi Adler-Olsen

Can I expect more from undemanding books?

Posted on October 3, 2015 by bernadetteinoz

I have recently finished two books about which the most polite thing I can think of to say is that they were undemanding. I baulked for a while at putting this in writing because it sounds like the very definition … Continue reading →

Posted in Jussi Adler-Olsen, musings, Sue Grafton | 23 Comments

Review: REDEMPTION by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Posted on August 29, 2013 by bernadetteinoz

I occasionally wonder if I’ve simply read too much crime fiction. REDEMPTION (published as A CONSPIRACY OF FAITH in the US) is Jussi Adler-Olsen’s third novel to feature Carl Mørck and his team of well meaning misfits in Department Q: … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Denmark, Jussi Adler-Olsen | 15 Comments

Review: DISGRACE by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Posted on July 10, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

In Adler-Olsen’s second novel to be translated into English we meet a very unsavoury group of criminals who, since they were teenagers together at boarding school, have loved nothing better than fuelling themselves up on illicit drugs then violently attacking … Continue reading →

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Books of the Month – October 2011

Posted on November 3, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

I didn’t manage a lot of reviewing in October but was lucky enough to have a couple of 5-star reads which means Book of the month is a difficult choice so I’m not going to make it. Tom Franklin‘s Crooked Letter, Crooked … Continue reading →

Posted in Alice LaPlante, Arnaldur Indriðason, Barry Maitland (Aus), books of the month, Camilla Lackberg, Carolyn Morwood (Aus), Dan Waddell, Daphne Du Maurier, Denise Mina, John Lawton, Jussi Adler-Olsen, list, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Nicole Watson (Aus), Ruth Rendell, S J Bolton, Tom Franklin, Yrsa Sigurdardottir | 9 Comments

Review: Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Posted on October 9, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

Note: this book is published in the US as The Keeper of Lost Causes and is referred to at the author’s website as The Woman in the Cage. Given that everyone in the world has already read this book (refer … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Denmark, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Nordic Challenge 2011 | 14 Comments