A Man by Keiichirō Hirano
It all makes for a rather melancholy and -- in its complicated investigations and its details -- oddly wending-all-over-the-place novel, but also an interesting...
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The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
I think this is the sort of book you have to be in the mood for. The humor just didn't resonate with me and none of the characters really struck me.
A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier
What an odd little book. Bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. It is French so perhaps I should have expected weird … :-)
Job: A New Translation by Edward L. Greenstein
Greenstein’s Job is a bold, highly original challenge to centuries, if not millenniums, of scholarship and theology. It is a no-holds-barred assertion of a new...
The Great and the Good by Michel Deon
The book is intriguing because it almost feels like a classic. A classic in the sense that it captures the time period perfectly - 1950's America as an industri...
The Eskimo Solution by Pascal Garnier
I usually stray away from noir-themed books due to their very nature, but this book intrigued me based on the plot. Like all noir novels, this is a bleak and de...
The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstol
Those interested in Scandanavia crime novels and/or the Great Lakes Region will surely want to check this one out (unless you can read Norwegian and have alread...
The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstol
Those interested in Scandanavia crime novels and/or the Great Lakes Region will surely want to check this one out (unless you can read Norwegian and have alread...