tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post6171803731478458625..comments2023-10-10T10:00:06.367+01:00Comments on DJ´s krimiblog: Helene Tursten, Manden med det lille ansigt (2007)Dorte Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14535044092722418173noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post-37203494786837697412009-05-10T12:50:00.000+01:002009-05-10T12:50:00.000+01:00Lauren, I have probably only come across the good ...Lauren, I have probably only come across the good ones so far. At least I don´t recall having been disappointed with her before. <br /><br />And you are quite right that her private life is not a problem in the books. She is just a modern woman who has to cope somehow, and that part of it usually works quite well. Helene Tursten doesn´t fell sorry for herself all the time either (which is what I am so tired of in Liza Marklund´s otherwise good novels).Dorte Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14535044092722418173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post-17829358856775246232009-05-10T12:46:00.000+01:002009-05-10T12:46:00.000+01:00Cathy, as far as I remember The Glass Devil was re...Cathy, as far as I remember The Glass Devil was really good!<br /><br />Julia, when women write really well, and remember that they also have a crime plot to think about, many men enjoy their books. It seems that men don´t mind that female detectives are human (with husband & kids), but if 75 % of the book centres around cooking & chatting with girlfriends, some men give it up. I think that is fair enought if the books are marketed as crime, not chick-lit.Dorte Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14535044092722418173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post-58933826657824143562009-05-10T12:39:00.000+01:002009-05-10T12:39:00.000+01:00This is on my 'to-read' list (the German title is,...This is on my 'to-read' list (the German title is, bizzarely, Die Tote im Keller). I like Tursten's books, but she's quite variable - The Torso was brilliant, as was whatever the first chronological book's called in English, but some of the other ones are duller. Or in parts, slightly ridiculous. <br /><br />Maxine, you may have a point - in another untranslated book Irene and a colleague go to Paris, although their unsavoury experiences are rather more Copenhagen than London as far as tourism in Tursten books goes. (And the local policeman isn't nearly as nice...) <br /><br />Julia, one of the things I always find interesting about Tursten as an author is that even though she covers family dynamics well, if sparingly, the overall tone of her books isn't all that feminine. There's a neutrality of narrative voice that I think lends itself to readers of both genders, and the style is much less overtly female than someone like, say, Camilla Lackberg. (Whom I also enjoy reading, but who has more elements which I think the average male reader would find offputting.)Laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03905529307987104069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post-47942108458752531232009-05-09T21:18:00.000+01:002009-05-09T21:18:00.000+01:00Funny to realize that crime solving detectives hav...Funny to realize that crime solving detectives have to juggle two-income parenting challenges, teenagers almost past worrying about just when grandma needs care. I love that aspect of this story (which I obviously haven't read.) I think the family dynamics part is very much what gives a feminine perspective on the crime genre. And perhaps the very thing male readers are disinterested in?Julia Phillips Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15392455413201190775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post-91161921026446763052009-05-09T19:53:00.000+01:002009-05-09T19:53:00.000+01:00Thanks for reminding me that I have The Glass Devi...Thanks for reminding me that I have The Glass Devil sitting on my TBR shelves!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01774383554326288663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post-30144950727744469752009-05-09T19:04:00.000+01:002009-05-09T19:04:00.000+01:00Maxine, I have probably read four or five before t...Maxine, I have probably read four or five before this one, and on the whole seen them as first class crime fiction. So I was a bit disappointed. Max three stars of five, I´d say. And - no further spoilers - but I don´t think it has been sponsored by the tourist association of Tenerife! I can see one might call it exotic, though :ODorte Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14535044092722418173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725252734697392575.post-1988069657925388862009-05-09T17:50:00.000+01:002009-05-09T17:50:00.000+01:00Interesting to read this review, having enjoyed th...Interesting to read this review, having enjoyed the three that are (so far) translated into English very much. Unfortunately I gather there are no active plans to translate any more so we may never be able to read this one. I'm also interested in what you say about Tenerife - in the Glass Devil there is a long section when Irene goes to England (very touristic), and in The Torso she goes to Denmark. I wonder if part of the angle of this series is that the main character gets to go to a different country in each, so that readers can get a flavour of these exotic places like England and Denmark ;-) ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com