The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Leif GW Persson's He Who Kills the Dragon.
This came out in the UK in 2013 but has just been published in the US -- as Bäckström: He Who Kills the Dragon. Why ? Because the series -- it's part of a series -- is the (very, very loose) basis for the new Fox Television series, Backstrom. Which, however, doesn't quite explain why the US publishers went with the second in the series to introduce it to American audiences.
I suspect American editors have been trained to refuse to publish series-in-translation in their proper sequence unless it is really, really unavoidable -- Stieg Larsson's The Girl ...-trilogy, or Persson's earlier Olof Palme-trilogy.
This came out in the UK in 2013 but has just been published in the US -- as Bäckström: He Who Kills the Dragon. Why ? Because the series -- it's part of a series -- is the (very, very loose) basis for the new Fox Television series, Backstrom. Which, however, doesn't quite explain why the US publishers went with the second in the series to introduce it to American audiences.
I suspect American editors have been trained to refuse to publish series-in-translation in their proper sequence unless it is really, really unavoidable -- Stieg Larsson's The Girl ...-trilogy, or Persson's earlier Olof Palme-trilogy.