Ms. Wordopolis Reads

Category: Translated

  • Hour of the Wolf by Håkan Nesser

    Hour of the Wolf by Håkan Nesser, translated by Laurie Thompson Originally published as Carambole, 1999 Disclosure: I received a review copy from the publisher. It’s been a few years since I’ve read Nesser, and I was happy to skip to book 7 in the series, Hour of the Wolf. I know I missed a…

  • The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin

    The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin, translated by Marlaine Delargy Doubleday, 2009 Originally published as Nattfåk, 2008 I bought my copy of this book. I’ve read more Swedish books than books set any other country this year besides the United States. This is book 7, and my second Theorin novel, and also this is the second…

  • Icarus by Deon Meyer

    Icarus by Deon Meyer, translated by K.L. Seegers Atlantic Monthly Press, October 2015 Disclosure: I received a review copy from the publisher. I’ve hopped around the Benny Griessel series by Deon Meyer– a couple early ones in the series, a couple of the most recent stories, and I liked this one a great deal though…

  • Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

    Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen Dalkey Archive Press, 2005 Originally published as Tchernobylskaia Moltiva, 1997 I borrowed this book from the library. I’m one of those readers that tries to sample award-winning books/ authors from time to time, and it usually takes me several tries before I find something that…

  • Fear Not by Anne Holt

    Fear Not by Anne Holt, translated by Marlaine Delargy Originally published as Pengemannen, 2009 Vik/Stubo book 4 I borrowed this book from the library. Anne Holt writes a couple intersecting series set in Oslo as well as standalones, and they are one of my current favorite series even though I can’t point to an individual book…

  • Linda, as in the Linda Murder by Leif GW Persson

    Linda, as in the Linda Murder by Leif GW Persson Translated by Neil Smith Doubleday, 2013 Originally published as Linda — som i Lindamordet, 2005 Evert Bäckström book 1 I borrowed this book from the library. I’ve been mulling over this book for over a week now: in part that’s a sign that there’s much…

  • The Fire Engine That Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

    The Fire Engine That Disappeared by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö Originally published as Brandbilen som försvann, 1969 Sphere Books, 1973 I bought my copy of the book Martin Beck book 5 I’ve arrived at the halfway point in the Martin Beck series and I’m still surprised by the books. They feel contemporary, despite the…

  • Eva’s Eye by Karin Fossum

    Eva’s Eye by Karin Fossum, translated by James Anderson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 Originally published as Evas øye, 1995 Inspector Sejer, book 2 I bought my copy of the book. I backtracked in my reading of the Inspector Sejer series to read the first installment, Eva’s Eye, also published as In the Darkness, and I…

  • Death in Oslo by Anne Holt

    Death in Oslo by Anne Holt, translated by Kari Dickson Vik and Stubo book 3 Sphere, 2009 Originally published as Presidentens valg, 2006 I bought my copy of the book. Death in Oslo is kind of a misleading title: this book is about the disappearance of the United States’s first female president during her first state…

  • To the Top of the Mountain by Arne Dahl

    To the Top of the Mountain by Arne Dahl, translated by Alice Menzies Originally published as Upp till toppen av berget (2000) Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, August 2015 Intercrime book 3 Disclosure: I received a review copy from the publisher I’m a fan of this book about a big, major, complicated set of crimes that sees the…