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ATDrake · 10-30-2017, 02:11 PM

Bargain @ $1.99 each from Amazon's exclusive AmazonCrossing translation imprint in Canada & the US:

The Last Pilgrim & Hell is Open by Norwegian author Gard Sveen (Wikipedia), 1st & 2nd in his Tommy Bergmann series starring a policeman in Oslo.

The 1st book won four prizes, including the prestigious Glass Key and Riverton prizes for Scandinavian crime writing. I've read the 1st one, and thought that overall it was a pretty good modern murder/cold case mystery/thriller of the sort that ties in a present-day and historical case (the obligatory WWII mystery, of course), and the 2nd was on my wishlist and this is the first time I've seen it pricedrop.

Icelandic author Árni Thórarinsson's (SYKM, Wikipedia) Season of the Witch, which I read and quite liked, is also on sale again. It's the 4th in his Einar series starring a newspaper journalist (and contains some entertaining skewering of the media, if you're into that sort of thing), but apparently the only one which will be translated into English, sadly (all but the first 3 or so are available in French). The case, which is set in the mildly unusual location of Akureyri, Iceland's 2nd largest city (with a tiny population of less than 20,000, IIRC), is self-contained and the story can be read perfectly well standalone, and was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize.

Also, The Seventh Child (also a Glass Key + 3 other awards) & The Man in the Lighthouse from prize-winning Danish author Erik Valeur (Wikipedia DK), two standalones.

T7C is more of a psychological suspense about identity, which I read at the same time as SOTW, and IMHO, was nicely atmospheric about that, but the mystery/whodunnit portions were only so-so and overly drawn out for my taste. That said, overall the writing was strong enough that I'm more than willing to give Valeur's other books a try while on sale. YMMV.

A bunch of other AmazonCrossing mysteries and literary/other-genre fiction is also on sale at the $0.99 and up mark: linkage for the lot, sorted by price.

Notable mystery/thriller authors with works on sale at $1.99 and below include Polish author Zygmunt Miłoszewski (SYKM, Wikipedia; High Caliber Prize for Best Polish Crime Novel), Danish author Jesper Bugge Kold (Wikipedia DK; nominated for a BogForums Debutantpris for newer authors), French author Amélie Antoine (prize-winner of some sort, according to her bio-blurb), Spanish author Antonio Garrido (Wikipedia ES, Pris des Lecteurs Sélection + 3 nominations for the title offered), German author Thomas Meinecke (Wikipedia DE), Swedish author Caroline Eriksson (Wikipedia SV), plus a bunch of other novels by less-established writers (who seem to be mainly translations from bestselling self-published KDP works in other countries).

10-30-2017, 02:11 PM	#1362
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ $1.99 each from Amazon's exclusive AmazonCrossing translation imprint in Canada & the US: The Last Pilgrim & Hell is Open by Norwegian author Gard Sveen (Wikipedia), 1st & 2nd in his Tommy Bergmann series starring a policeman in Oslo. The 1st book won four prizes, including the prestigious Glass Key and Riverton prizes for Scandinavian crime writing. I've read the 1st one, and thought that overall it was a pretty good modern murder/cold case mystery/thriller of the sort that ties in a present-day and historical case (the obligatory WWII mystery, of course), and the 2nd was on my wishlist and this is the first time I've seen it pricedrop. Icelandic author Árni Thórarinsson's (SYKM, Wikipedia) Season of the Witch, which I read and quite liked, is also on sale again. It's the 4th in his Einar series starring a newspaper journalist (and contains some entertaining skewering of the media, if you're into that sort of thing), but apparently the only one which will be translated into English, sadly (all but the first 3 or so are available in French). The case, which is set in the mildly unusual location of Akureyri, Iceland's 2nd largest city (with a tiny population of less than 20,000, IIRC), is self-contained and the story can be read perfectly well standalone, and was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. Also, The Seventh Child (also a Glass Key + 3 other awards) & The Man in the Lighthouse from prize-winning Danish author Erik Valeur (Wikipedia DK), two standalones. T7C is more of a psychological suspense about identity, which I read at the same time as SOTW, and IMHO, was nicely atmospheric about that, but the mystery/whodunnit portions were only so-so and overly drawn out for my taste. That said, overall the writing was strong enough that I'm more than willing to give Valeur's other books a try while on sale. YMMV. A bunch of other AmazonCrossing mysteries and literary/other-genre fiction is also on sale at the $0.99 and up mark: linkage for the lot, sorted by price. Notable mystery/thriller authors with works on sale at $1.99 and below include Polish author Zygmunt Miłoszewski (SYKM, Wikipedia; High Caliber Prize for Best Polish Crime Novel), Danish author Jesper Bugge Kold (Wikipedia DK; nominated for a BogForums Debutantpris for newer authors), French author Amélie Antoine (prize-winner of some sort, according to her bio-blurb), Spanish author Antonio Garrido (Wikipedia ES, Pris des Lecteurs Sélection + 3 nominations for the title offered), German author Thomas Meinecke (Wikipedia DE), Swedish author Caroline Eriksson (Wikipedia SV), plus a bunch of other novels by less-established writers (who seem to be mainly translations from bestselling self-published KDP works in other countries). Last edited by ATDrake; 10-30-2017 at 02:21 PM.