The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Charlotte Link's thriller, Die Täuschung.
Link is (and long has been) among the most successful -- sales-wise -- contemporary German writers, and is widely translated (and popular abroad, too); Die Täuschung alone has apparently sold over a million copies in German. Oddly, however, nothing of hers has been published in English yet -- though Orion is apparently bringing out The Other Child later this year (in a translation by slumming And Other Stories publisher Stefan Tobler ...). I'm curious whether she'll catch on in the US/UK; on the basis of this title alone (all I've read of hers), I'd say it's a toss-up: this is about equivalent to middle-of-the-pack of the current flood of Nordic crime novels -- though the fact that she's not a serial thriller writer -- which is what's all the rage, after all -- probably works (strongly) against her.
Link is (and long has been) among the most successful -- sales-wise -- contemporary German writers, and is widely translated (and popular abroad, too); Die Täuschung alone has apparently sold over a million copies in German. Oddly, however, nothing of hers has been published in English yet -- though Orion is apparently bringing out The Other Child later this year (in a translation by slumming And Other Stories publisher Stefan Tobler ...). I'm curious whether she'll catch on in the US/UK; on the basis of this title alone (all I've read of hers), I'd say it's a toss-up: this is about equivalent to middle-of-the-pack of the current flood of Nordic crime novels -- though the fact that she's not a serial thriller writer -- which is what's all the rage, after all -- probably works (strongly) against her.