Books and Beyond: Crime time
Karen and Alison talk about the joys of reading crime fiction and recommend some favourites, while considering some of today’s tropes on the subject, such as the idea that crime novels by women are more brutal than those by men.
Listen to this episode on the Auckland Libraries podcast and read on for the books mentioned in the show.
Books mentioned in the show:
Tartan noir
- Starting with Report for murder, The Lindsay Gordon series by Val McDermid.
- Starting with Overkill, The Detective Sam Shephard series by Vanda Symon.
- Starting with When the bough breaks, The Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman.
- The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
- Don’t look back by Karin Fossum.
- Starting with The bat, The Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo.
- Jar city by Arnaldur Indridason.
- Starting with Faceless killers, The Kurt Wallender series by Henning Mankell.
- Smilla’s sense of snow by Peter Hoeg.
- The Gone girl trilogy by Gillian Flynn: Gone girl, Dark places, Sharp objects.
- Starting with The shape of water, The Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.
- The plotters by Un-su Kim.
- The good son by You-Jeong Jeong.
- How to shoot friends and influence people by Mark Chopper Read.
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
- The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer.
- Snap by Belinda Bauer.
- Final girls by Riley Sager.
- Dead girls: essays on surviving American obsession by Alice Bolin.
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