Monthly Summary (April 2014)

What I Read in April 2014

• The City of Shadows (Avon, 2012) by Michael Russell (A+)
• La luna de papel (Ediciones Salamandra, 2007) Traducción de Maria Antonio Menini Pagés. Título original: La luna di carta (The Paper Moon), de Andrea Camilleri (A)
• Death Can’t Take a Joke (The Friday Project, 2014) by Anya Lipska (A)
• The Pledge (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Translated by Joel Agee. Originally published as Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman, 1958, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (A+)
• The Concrete Blonde (Orion, 1998) Reissued 2009. First published in 1994, by Michael Connelly (A)
• Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Editorial Bruguera, 1981) by Gabriel García Márquez. English title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (A+)
• In The Morning I’ll Be Gone (Serpent’s Tail, 2014) by Adrian McKinty (A)

Pick of the Month

A tough one. I have very much enjoyed all the books I read this month. Three of them got the highest mark in my book. Therefore I’ll just leave it there and I’ll recommend any one of all the books I read, depending on your mood at the time.

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Books Bought Last Month

• Los milaneses matan en sábado de Giorgio Scerbanenco,
• Dead Line by Chris Ewan
• La mala dona de Marc Pastor
• SHETLAND: Dead Water by Ann Cleeves
• In the Morning I’ll be Gone by Adrian McKinty
• Sacrifices by Roger Smith
• The Reversal by Michael Connelly
• Clavos en el corazón by Danielle Thiéry

Currently Reading

• Graveland (Faber & Faber, 2013) by Alan Glynn

Wish List (10)

• The A26 by Pascal Garnier
• The City of Strangers by Michael Russell
• I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
• Someone to Watch Over Me by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
• Entry Island by Peter May
• The Sudden Arrival of Violence by Malcolm Mackay
• Dead Lions by Mick Herron
• Strange Shores (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries 9) by Arnaldur Indridason
• The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer
• Free Falling, As If in a Dream: The Story of a Crime by Leif Gw Persson

Eagerly Awaited

• Cobra by Deon Meyer
• The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum
• Euro Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Euroean Crime Fiction, Film & TV (Pocket Essential Series) by Barry Forshaw