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Best Nordic Noir & European Crime
Department Q Copenhagen, Erast Fandorin Moscow, John Madden interwar England. Six picks from the most patient and most psychologically careful European crime fiction in print.
6 books on this list.
The Keeper of Lost Causesby Jussi Adler-Olsen
5.0“The first Department Q novel. Detective Carl Morck goes down to the basement and finds a five-year-old missing-politician case. The series begins here.”
A Conspiracy of Faithby Jussi Adler-Olsen
5.0“The third Department Q novel. Carl Morck investigates a message in a bottle written in blood. The best book in a great series.”
The Purity of Vengeanceby Jussi Adler-Olsen
5.0“The fourth Department Q novel. The Danish eugenics program at Sprogo, four decades on. Adler-Olsen at his most morally serious.”
The Winter Queenby Boris Akunin
5.0“The first Erast Fandorin novel. A young clerk in 1876 Moscow investigates an apparent suicide and falls down a labyrinth.”
River Of Darknessby Rennie Airth
5.0“The first John Madden mystery. Post-WWI English countryside, a returning detective, and a serial killer whose methods come straight from the trenches.”
Flash Pointby Paul Adam
4.0“Flash Point by Paul Adam 2006 review. A Glasgow journalist investigates the death of a young African violinist competing in the Tchaikovsky Competition and stumbles into a missing-instrument scandal.”