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No cover — Smaller and smaller circles (2015)

The 39 Steps (2004, Kessinger Publishing)

No cover — The Manufactured Identity (2009, Tate Publishing & Enterprises)

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Kissing the gunner's daughter (1993, Mysterious Press)

Meditations (Penguin Classics) (2006, Penguin Classics)

Faithful Place (2010, Viking)

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airdog finished reading Eiskaltes Gift by Palsdottir Solveig

Eiskaltes Gift

Eiskaltes Gift by Palsdottir Solveig

Bei Filmaufnahmen in einem isländischen Dorf stirbt der Hauptdarsteller Lárus vor laufender Kamera. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass er vergiftet …

airdog reviewed Eiskaltes Gift by Palsdottir Solveig

Eiskaltes Gift

Bei Filmaufnahmen in einem isländischen Dorf stirbt der Hauptdarsteller Lárus vor laufender Kamera. Alles deutet …

Slow start but the last 2/3 quite gripping

3 stars

It's not aa short work so the reader needs a lot of patience to hang in for more than a hundred pages where absolutely nothing is happening. But after that the pace really picks up and keeps you turning the pages until the end. German translation of an Icelandic author.

airdog reviewed Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson

No cover — Snowblind (2015, Orenda Books)

Siglufjorour: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors …

Painful reading

1 star

Written as by an average student in fifth grade language class. Maybe a bad translation from Icelandic?

airdog finished reading Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson

No cover — Snowblind (2015, Orenda Books)

Siglufjorour: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors …

Written with the style of a fifth grade student in language class, every sentence painfully assembled.

Maybe a bad translation from Icelandic?

airdog finished reading La vraie vie by Adeline Dieudonné

La vraie vie (French language, 2018)

La vraie vie by Adeline Dieudonné

un extrait évoquant le père : « C'était un homme immense, avec des épaules larges, une carrure d'équarrisseur. Des mains …

airdog finished reading One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Lying (AudiobookFormat, Listening Library (Audio))

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

All the secrets of the Bayview Four will be revealed in the TV series soon to be streaming on NBC's …

airdog finished reading All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew

All the Hidden Truths (2015, Hodder & Stoughton Canada)

All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew

In the aftermath of a tragedy, the world needs an explanation.

In Edinburgh, after the Three Rivers College shooting, some …

airdog finished reading downfall by Jeff Abbott

downfall (EBook)

downfall by Jeff Abbott

She is a good mother. She will do what she must to ensure that her daughter Diana has a perfect …

airdog rated Verity: 3 stars

Verity (AudiobookFormat, 2019, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio)

Verity by Amy Landon, Colleen Hoover, Vanessa Johansson

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a …

airdog rated Kissing the gunner's daughter: 3 stars

Kissing the gunner's daughter (1993, Mysterious Press)

Kissing the gunner's daughter by Ruth Rendell

Detective Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford remains cool in the face of massive media attention as he sets out to investigate …

airdog rated The darkness: 3 stars

No cover — The darkness (2018)

The darkness by Ragnar Jónasson

"Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from …

airdog rated Faithful Place: 4 stars

Faithful Place (2010, Viking)

Faithful Place by Tana French

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city and living crammed into a small …

airdog rated The Shape of Water (Inspector Maltalbano Mysteries): 3 stars

The Shape of Water (Inspector Maltalbano Mysteries) (2005, Penguin (Non-Classics))

The Shape of Water (Inspector Maltalbano Mysteries) by Andrea Camilleri

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.

The …

airdog rated Case histories: 2 stars

Case histories (2005, Back Bay Books)

Case histories by Kate Atkinson

"Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never …

airdog rated Devil and the Dark Water: 2 stars

Devil and the Dark Water (2020, Sourcebooks, Incorporated)

Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where …

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