Best Crime Reads of 2012

As Mark Lawson observed in the excellent Radio 4 series Foreign Bodies, crime fiction is a splendid vehicle for literary tourism, and in 2012 I visited 15 countries through 25 crime novels. Two made my select list of five star reads.

Three Stars: Worth reading

Divorcing Jack, by Colin Bateman (UK)
Flight of Aquavit, by Anthony Bidulka (Canada)
Death Sentence, Mikkel Birkegaard (Denmark)
No Sale, by Patrick Conrad (Belgium)
The Moving Toyshop, by Edmund Crispin(UK)
Kill the General, by Bogdan Hrib (Romania)
Fairly Dangerous Thing, by Reginal Hill (UK)
Last Will, by Liza Marklund (Sweden)
The Dogs of Riga, by Henning Mankell (Sweden)
The Players and the Game, by Julian Symmons (UK)

Four Stars: Authors worth revisiting

Happy Birthday, Turk by Jakob Arjouni (Germany)
Madame Mephisto, by A. M. Bakalar (Poland)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin (USA)
Dark Angel, by Mari Jungstedt (Sweden)
Murder of Halland, by Pia Juul (Denmark)
The Hidden Child, by Camilla Läckberg (Sweden)
Book of Murder, Guillermo Martinez (Argentina)
Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End, by Leif GW Persson (sweden)
Anger Mode, by Stefan Tegenfalk (Sweden)
The Reunion, by Simone van der Vlugt (Netherlands)
Spies, by Luís Fernando Veríssimo (Brazil)
The Cutting Room, by Louise Welch (UK)
River of Shadows by Valerio Varesi (Italy)

Five Stars: Something Special

Burned, by Thomas Enger (Norway)
An Easy Thing, by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico)

With the benefit of hindsight, I am not quite sure of a couple of these ratings, not last becaue the there is quite a gap between the weaker ones and the top end (Franklin, Persson). 

And I am finding it hard to choose to between Burned and An Easy Thing.... There was something about Héctor Belascoarán Shayne that really appealed to me. 

But I am going to go for Burned.

Thanks to everyone who helped me to these choices through their recommendations.

Comments

[Karen Russell]

Had not heard of Thomas Enger before, but if he's on par with Taibo, I'm going to find a copy. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Anthony Bidulka]

Happy to be on the list! Wishing you more good reading in 2013.

[Philip]

Thanks, Anthony! Great to hear from you. Will definitely be returning to Russell Quant.

[Bill Selnes]

An interesting list. I was in Norway in September visiting my family roots and will be looking in 2013 for some Norwegian crime fiction.

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