A question from Peter Rozovsky at Detectives Beyond Borders
Whom have you read for the first time in 2010?
In my case I’ve read this year 45 new-to-me authors. In my list I’ve only included the first book read. In some cases I’ve read two or more. I’m also highlighting with *** my ten favourite authors from this list, although, if I have read two or more, it might not be his/her best book (e. g.: I would have picked Indridason’s Hypothermia and Villar’s Death on a Galician Shore). My preferences, as always, are capricious, change over time and only reflect my taste. My rating at goodreads might not necessarily be the highest.
Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road ***
Alicia Giménez Bartlett – Death Rites (Spain)
Ann Cleeves – Raven Black
Annamaria Alfieri – City of Silver
Anthony Berkeley – The Poisoned Chocolates Case***
Arnaldur Indridason – Tainted Blood (aka Jar City) ***
Asa Larsson – The Savage Altar
Barbara Vine – The Birthday Present
Bob Reiss – Purgatory Road
Carlo Lucarelli – Carte Blanche
Claudia Piñeiro – Thursday Night Widows
Deon Meyer – Thirteen Hours ***
Domingo Villar – Water-Blue Eyes (Spain) ***
Dominique Manotti – Affairs of State ***
Ernesto Mallo – Needle in a Haystack ***
Franciso Ortiz – Last Night in Granada (Spain)
Guillermo Arriaga – A Sweet Scent of Death ***
Hakan Nesser – The Mind’s Eye
Jacques Chessek – A Jew Must Die
Johan Theorin – The Darkest Room ***
Karin Alvtegen – Missing ***
Karin Fossum – Don’t Look Back
Laura Lippman – What the Dead Know
Leighton Gage – Blood of the Wicked
Leonardo Padura – Havana Gold
Léo Malet – 120 Rue de la Gare
Lorenzo Silva – The Queen without Mirror
Margie Orford – Like Clockwork
Martin Edwards – The Coffin Trail
Mehmet Murat Somer – The Gigolo Murder
Michael Stanley – A Carrion Death
Natsuo Kirino – Out
Neil Cross – Burial
Nick Brownlee – Bait
Peter Temple – Dead Point
Petros Markaris – Basic Shareholder
Qiu Xiaolong – Death of a Red Heroine
Ramón Díez Eterovic – The City is Sad
Rob Kitchin – The Rule Book
Santiago Roncagliolo – Red April
Sarah Andrews – In Cold Pursuit
Simon Beckett – Written in Bone
Teresa Solana – A Shortcut to Paradise
Tonino Benacquista – Badfellas
Vanda Symon – Overkill
You can also check Bernadette’s blog post at Reactions to Reading on the same subject.
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