DJ´s Bait in the Box # 65

This novel is neither the first in a series nor the writer´s first series.

“She turned, mouth open to say something – what? – when she saw the bloody footprint on the floor.

´Emma,´ she whispered, dropping the phone as she looked up the stairs toward her daughter´s bedroom.

She stopped at the top of the stairs, shocked at the broken furniture, the splintered glass on the floor. Her vision tunneled and she saw Emma lying in a bloody heap at the end of the hallway. A man stood over her, a knife in his hand.”

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DJ´s gæt en bog # 65
Denne roman er hverken den første i en serie eller forfatterens første serie.

”Med åben mund vendte hun sig om for at sige noget – hvad? – da hun fik øje på de blodige fodaftryk på gulvet.

´Emma´, hviskede hun og gav slip på telefonen, mens hun sprang op ad trappen til sin datters værelse.

Hun stoppede brat for enden af trappen, rystet over synet af de ødelagte møbler og glasskårene på gulvet. Hendes synsfelt snævrede sig ind, og hun så Emma ligge i en blodig plamage for enden af gangen. En mand stod lænet ind over hende med en kniv i hånden.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 64

A thriller from far away.

“Just then, another wall of ice crumbled behind her and collapsed on itself, crackling like distant thunder. She turned away from the camera and watched as the entire cliff plummeted into the gray-blue water and disappeared in an angry eruption of spray.

Perfect timing, she thought with a glimmer of satisfaction, a brief respite from the solemnity she´d been feeling since she´d arrived on the ship the day before.”

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DJ´s gæt en bog # 63.
En spændingsroman som blandt andet foregår ved verdens ende.

”I samme nu brækkede endnu en isblok af bag hende og knustes under sin egen vægt med en buldren som fjern torden. Hun vendte sig væk fra kameraet og så hele isvæggen styrte ned i det gråblå vand og forsvinde i en voldsom kaskade af vandsprøjt.

Det helt rigtige tidspunkt, tænkte hun med en vis tilfredshed – et lille pusterum fra den dybe alvor, som hun havde følt siden sin ankomst med skibet dagen før.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 60

This crime novel is a debut and the first in a rather short series.

“Douglas was tied into the blue kitchen chair with several strands of rope. His throat had been cut clean across, right back to the vertebra, his head was sitting off centre from his neck. Splashes and spurts of his blood were drying all over the carpet. One long red splatter extended four feet diagonally from the chair, slashing across the arm of the settee and nearly hitting the skirting board on the far wall.”

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Gæt en bog.
Denne krimi er en debut og den første i en forholdsvis kort serie.

“Douglas var bundet til den blå køkkenstol med adskillige længder reb. Hans hals var skåret over helt ind til nakkehvirvlen, så hovedet ikke længere sad helt, som det skulle. Blodet var allerede ved at tørre ind på gulvtæppet. Ét langt stænk strakte sig i en diagonal fra stolen og skar sig tværs over armlænet på sofaen, indtil det næsten ramte fodlisten på den fjerneste væg.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 53

[Julia´s wonderful tin IS a clue - though it may be misleading]

This week the book is sheer gambling, I have no idea whether you read this kind of thriller or not, but let us see – I know that my readers are amazingly well-read and resourceful! And at least the book is out in both English and Danish.

“Harry and the others did not really believe that A…. had disappeared without a trace until the train went through the suburbs of Aberdeen, and it was announced through the loudspeakers that they approached the terminal. They began searching the toilets, but no signs of A…. On the other hand they found his travel bag in the luggage rack where he had put it himself, and brought it along as they tottered out in a gray and cold Aberdeen afternoon.”

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Gæt en bog # 53.
Ugens bog er et sats. Jeg aner ikke, om denne spændingsroman appellerer til mine læsere, men nu får vi se. I det mindste er den udgivet på både engelsk og dansk.

”Harry og de andre troede ikke for alvor på, at A…. var forsvundet sporløst, før toget begyndte at køre igennem Aberdeens forstæder, og det blev meddelt over højttaleranlægget, at de nærmede sig endestationen. De gav sig til at se efter på toiletterne, men der var ingen A…. De fandt til gengæld hans rejsetaske på bagagehylden, hvor han selv havde anbragt den, og tog den med, da de stavrede ud i en grå og kold Aberdeen-eftermiddag.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 52

Do you remember this novel, the first in an excellent series?

“I thought I should call you.”

“Traffic accident?”

“No, not exactly. An elderly farmer called and said his name was Nyström. Lives in Lunnarp. He claimed that the woman next door was tied up on the floor and that someone was dead.”

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Gæt en bog # 52.
Kan du huske romanen her, den første i en førsteklasses serie?

– Jeg syntes, jeg burde ringe til dig.

- En bilulykke?

- Nej, ikke lige det. Der var en gammel mand, der ringede, en gammel landmand, som sagde, at han hed Nyström og boede i Lenarp. Han påstod, at en nabokone sad bundet på gulvet, og at nogen var død.

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 45

[The very appropriate box belongs to Tim Duncan]

This is the first in a series of approximately a handful of novels.

“My little girl has not come home … have looked everywhere… everywhere …”

He calmed her down, and methodically he got the basic details from her. “Are you saying since half past five? Then you should have called earlier, ma´am. But just a second…”

“I have a Mrs Uphill on the phone … Her eight-year-old daughter left Sct Basil Sunday school at half past five and has not come home. The mother is very worried.”

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Gæt en bog # 45.
Denne britiske krimi er den første i en serie på omtrent en håndfuld bøger.

“Min lille pige er ikke kommet hjem … set efter overalt … overalt …”

Han beroligede hende og trak metodisk de grundlæggende detaljer ud af hende. ”Siger De siden 16.30? Så skulle De have ringet før, frue. Men lige et øjeblik …”

Jeg har en mrs Uphill I telefonen… Hendes otteårige datter forlod Skt Basil Søndagsskole klokken 16.30 og er ikke kommet hjem. Moderen er meget bekymret.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 43

This crime novel is not a debut, neither is it the author´s latest book.

“They thought he was about ten years old. He was wearing a grey anorak, unzipped, with a hood, and military-style camouflage trousers. His school bag was on his back. One of his boots had come off and there was a hole in his sock. One toe poked through. The boy was not wearing gloves or a hat. His black hair was already frozen to the ice. He lay on his stomach with one cheek turned up towards them, and they saw his broken eyes staring along the frozen earth. The puddle of blood underneath him had started to freeze.”

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Gæt en bog # 43.
Denne krimi (som jeg læser på svensk, fordi det er billigst) er ikke en debut, og det er heller ikke forfatterens nyeste.

“De trodde han kunde vara ungefär tio år. Han var klädd i en grå jacka med huva, och byxor i grönt och brunt kamouflagemönster, någon sorts militärbyxor. Han hade en skolryggsäck på ryggen. Jackan var uppknäppt, ena foten saknade stövel, och de såg att strumpan hade hål. En tå stack ut. Pojken hade varken vantar eller mössa. Det svarta håret hade redan frusit fast i isen. Han låg på mage och vände ena kinden upp mot dem och de såg den brustna blicken stirra längs den frusna marken. Under honom fanns en blodpöl som även den hade börjat frysa till.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 35

[This charming tin belongs to Elizabeth, Thoughts from an Evil Overlord]

The first in a not quite new British series which was made into a TV series some years ago.

“Minor who has run away from home?” Anna asked resignedly.
“Not so fast, young lady,” Brierly said reproachfully. “No, actually it is not a minor. The daughter in question was 22, and has not disappeared but is dead. And she has been so for a month. She had a car accident late one night and hit a concrete column. At Cranford Lane, near the airport.”

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Gæt en bog # 35.
Den første i en ikke helt ny britisk serie, som blev oversat til dansk og endda vist på dansk TV for nogle år siden.

”Mindreårig der er løbet hjemmefra?” spurgte Anna resigneret.
”Nu ikke så hurtig, unge dame,” sagde Brierly bebrejdende. ”Nej, rent faktisk er der ikke nogen mindreårig. Den datter, det drejer sig om, var 22, og er ikke forsvundet, men død. Og det har hun været en måned. Hun kørte galt en sen aften og ramte en betonpille. På Cranford Lane, ude ved lufthavnen.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box SPECIAL - the answers.

Here are the answers to Wednesday´s Bait in the Box:

1) Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery, British.
Agatha Christie, Det caribiske mysterium, britisk.

2) Inger Frimansson, Island of the Naked Women, Swedish
Inger Frimansson, De nøgne kvinders ø, svensk.
Reviewed later today - anmeldes senere i dag!

3) Megan Abbott, Bury Me Deep, American. Ikke oversat.

4) Jo Nesbø, Nemesis, Norwegian.
Jo Nesbø, Sorgenfri, norsk.

5) Leah Giarratano, Black Ice, Australian. Ikke oversat.

DJ´s Bait in the Box SPECIAL

[The bait box: a variety of Danish ´cookies´ from DJ´s kitchen]

First, a warm welcome to a handful of new followers! My Bait in the Box has been a weekly feature (a guessing game) since January. Some weeks the quotation has been very easy, other weeks even addicted crime fiction fans have torn their hair out in sheer desperation.

So to give as many readers as possible a fair chance this week, here are five different quotations: an Australian, a British, an American, a Swedish and a Norwegian – all from crime novels (but not necessarily in this order). On Friday, I am going to post the correct answers and review one of the books.

1) Though really rural life was far from idyllic. People like Raymond were so ignorant. In the course of her duties in a country parish, NN had acquired quite a comprehensive knowledge of the facts of rural life. She had no urge to talk about them, far less to write about them – but she knew them. Plenty of sex, natural and unnatural. Rape, incest, perversions of all kinds. (Some kinds, indeed, that even the clever young men from Oxford who wrote books didn´t seem to have heard about.)

2) The screwdriver in his hand, the short yellow handle,
The screwdriver in his
hacking
hand.
How it sank like into butter, how it gurgled and broke
And was quiet.

3) Thrill parties every night over on Hussel Street. That tiny house, why, it´s 600 square feet of percolating, Wurlitzering sin. Those girls with their young skin, tight and glamorous, their rimy lungs and scratchy voices, one cheek flush and c´mon boys and the other, so accommodating, even with lil´ wrists and ankles stripped to pearly bone by sickness. They lay there on their daybed, men all standing over round, fingering pocket chains and hands curled about gin bottle necks.

4) In that moment the door to the bank opened, and two men, a tall and a short one, dressed in similar, dark boiler suits, quickly went into the bank. Stine Grette looked up. Harry looked at his own watch and started counting. The men rushed to the corner where Stine was sitting…
“Hello” the tall one said to Stine and put a black suitcase on the counter with a thump.

5) Seren ignored the sting of the fly sucking blood from her ankle. She pushed her lips into the salty skin of her knees, pressing the sobs back behind her teeth. This is the last night, she told herself. The last night with her back to the wall, shrunk into the corner, praying for morning. Whatever happened tonight, it would be the last time she slept with the lice scrabbling for purchase on her near-shaved scalp, and nesting in her pubic hair.

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DJs Gæt en Bog SPECIAL # 33.

Først en varm velkomst til en håndfuld nye blog-læsere! "Gæt en bog" er en ugentlig gætteleg, jeg har kørt siden januar. Nogle uger har citaterne været lette, andre uger har selv forhærdede krimifans revet håret ud i ren desperation.

Så for at give så mange læsere som mulig en chance denne uge, bringer jeg fem forskellige citater: et australsk, et britisk, et amerikansk, et svensk og et norsk – alle fra krimiromaner (men ikke nødvendigvis i den samme rækkefølge). På fredag kommer de korrekte svar, og en anmeldelse af én af bøgerne.

1) Skønt tilværelsen på landet så sandelig var alt andet end den rene idyl. Folk som Raymond var fuldkommen uvidende om de faktiske forhold. Under sit mangeårige virke i et lille landsogn havde NN erhvervet en temmelig omfattende og konkret viden om tilværelsen på landet. Hun følte ingen trang til at tale om denne viden, og endnu mindre til at skrive om den – men hun vidste god besked. Masser af sex, både naturlig og unaturlig. Voldtægt, blodskam, perversiteter af enhver art. (Deriblandt også nogle, som selv de boglærde unge mænd fra Oxford ikke syntes at have hørt om.)

2) Skruetrækkeren i hans hånd, det korte gule skaft,
Skruetrækkeren i hans
Huggende
Hånd.
Hvordan den sank som i smør, hvordan det gurglede og knækkede
Og blev stille.

3) Øh, et godt citat på engelsk er nok bedre end en tåget oversættelse til dansk …

4) I samme øjeblik gik døren til bankfilialen op, og to mænd, en høj og en lille, klædt i ens, mørke kedeldragter, gik hurtigt ind i banken. Stine Grette så op. Harry kiggede på sit eget ur og begyndte at tælle. Mændene styrtede hen til hjørnet, hvor Stine sad. …
”Hej,” sagde den høje til Stine og gik hen og satte en sort kuffert på skranken med et dunk.”

5) Seren ignorede smerten fra fluen, som sugede blod fra hendes ankel. Hun pressede læberne mod den salte hud på sine knæ, mens hun klemte en hulken inde bag tænderne. Det her er den sidste aften, sagde hun til sig selv. Den sidste aften med muren mod ryggen, sammenkrøbet i hjørnet, mens hun bad om at det måtte blive morgen. Uanset hvad der skete i aften, ville det være sidste gang hun sov sammen med lusene, som rodede rundt efter bid på hendes næsten barberede hovedbund, og hyggede sig i hendes kønsbehåring.

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 31

This crime novel/thriller is the third in the series, but the first which was translated into English. Do you remember this one?

He scratched his head. His hair was disheveled, and grew in thick clumps straight up from his head like the leaves of a pineapple. Now it looked even worse.

“I can drive you up there,” he said. “There´s room for the carriage in the back.”

Ragnhild thought for a moment. She stared up Skiferbakken, which was long and steep. The man pulled on the handbrake and glanced in the back of the van.

“Mama´s waiting for me,” Ragnhild said. A bell seemed to ring in the back of her mind, but she couldn´t remember what it was for.

“You´ll get home sooner if I drive you,” he said.

That decided it. Ragnhild was a practical little girl. She wheeled the carriage behind the van and the man hopped out. He opened the back door and lifted the carriage in with one hand.

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Gæt en bog # 31.
Denne krimi/thriller er den tredje i serien. Kan du huske den?

Så kløede han sig i hovedet, hans hår var filtret, det voksede lige op i vejret i tykke totter ligesom bladene på en ananas. Nu blev det endnu værre.

- Jeg kan godt køre dig derop, sagde han så. – Der er plads til vognen bagi.

Ragnhild tænkte sig om et stykke tid. Hun stirrede op ad Skiferbakken, der var lang og anstrengende. Han trak håndbremsen og kiggede om bag i bilen.

- Mor venter på mig, sagde Ragnhild.

Der var noget, der ringede langt omme i baghovedet, men hun kunne ikke komme på det.
- Du kommer hurtigere hjem, hvis jeg kører dig, sagde han så.

Det afgjorde sagen. Ragnhild var en praktisk anlagt lille pige, hun trillede vognen om bag bilen, og chaufføren hoppede ud. Han åbnede bagdøren og løftede vognen ind med én hånd, og bagefter løftede han Ragnhild ind.

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 29

This Nordic thriller is the first in a series.

”He could make no sense of the mutterings coming from the professor´s drooling mouth. He had a hunch that the body – it had to be a body, nothing living could look like that – had fallen onto Gunnar when he opened the door of the printer alcove. Against his will his gaze was drawn to the appalling human remains. The black patches on the eyes were not patches at all. His stomach clenched. God help us all. The knot in his stomach tightened, and he threw up."

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Gæt en bog # 29.
Denne nordiske krimi er den første i en serie.

“Han begreb ikke meget af den usammenhængende mumlen, som strømmede ud af fyren. Men han begreb så meget som at liget – det måtte være et lig, intet levende menneske kunne se sådan ud – var faldet ned oven i Gunnar da han åbnede døren til printerlokalet. Mod hans vilje søgte hans øjne mod det forfærdelige syn, kroppen udgjorde.

Herre min skaber. De sorte lapper over øjnene var slet ikke lapper.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 27

[This beautiful box belongs to Julia, A Piece of my Mind]

A Scandinavian thriller written by an experienced writer.

“He placed the burden on a bed of soft moss. He got up and wiped the sweat from his brow; it felt hot. This does not look good, he thought, not in any way. Emotions surged inside him, a mixture of panic and rage, nothing ever worked out for him, it was a mistake, the whole thing. … Fate had played a mean trick on him and dealt him a rotten hand; now he was being hurled down towards condemnation and denunciation. Hanging´s too good for him, people would say, lock him up and throw away the key; a man like him should never be allowed out again.”

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Gæt en bog # 27.
En moderne spændingsroman skrevet af en skandinavisk ekspert indenfor genren.

”Han lagde sin byrde på en bund af blød mos. Han rejste sig og tørrede sveden af øjenbrynene; det føltes varmt. Det her ser ikke godt ud, tænkte han, ikke på nogen som helst måde. Følelser vældede op inden i ham, en blanding af panik og raseri, der var intet der fungerede for ham, det var en misforståelse det hele. … Skæbnen havde spillet ham et ledt pus og givet ham en dårlig hånd; nu blev han hvirvlet ned mod afvisning og fordømmelse. Hængning er for godt til ham, ville folk sige, lås ham inde og smid nøglen væk; en mand som ham skulle aldrig lukkes ud igen."

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 26

[This week´s bait was eaten by yours truly]

This British crime novel is not a debut but the first in a series.

“Her concentration was so fierce, and everything seemed unreal here, surrounded by the reflected light which made her head swim, that she walked right up to the sight before realizing exactly what she was seeing. Until then everything was just form and colour. Then the vivid red turned into a scarf. The grey coat and the white flesh merged into the background of the snow which wasn´t so clean here. The ravens were pecking at a girl´s face. One of the eyes had disappeared.”

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Gæt en bog # 26.
Denne britiske krimi er ikke en debut, men den første i en serie.

”Hendes koncentration var så stærk, og alt så så uvirkeligt ud her, omgivet af det reflekterende lys som fik hendes hoved til at svømme, at hun trådte lige hen til synet, før hun indså præcist hvad det var, hun så. Indtil da var alt bare form og farve. Så blev den stærke røde farve til et tørklæde. Den grå frakke og det hvide kød faldt sammen med baggrunden af sne, som ikke var så ren her. Ravnene hakkede i pigens ansigt. Det ene øje var forsvundet.”

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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 25

[This delicious box belongs to Jane, Possum Scriptum.]

This non-European thriller is an older volume from a rather long series.

“With his mittens on, he stood up, testing the snow. The latest fall was soft, but the bitter cold had solidified the layers beneath it. He sank no more than two or three inches. Good.

The chimes sounded in his mind again: Time.

He paused, calmed himself. The whole intricate clockwork of his existence was in danger. He´d killed once already, but that had been almost accidental. He´d had to improvise a suicide scene around the corpse. And it had almost worked.

Had worked well enough to eliminate any chance that they might catch him. That experience changed him, gave him a taste of blood, a taste of real power.”

The Rules.
If you recognize the quotation, or if you think you are able to guess who wrote it, please post a comment. Just leave a hint, do not spoil the fun by giving too much away. I hope I will be ready to review the book on Friday.

Gæt en bog # 25.
Denne ikke-europæiske thriller er en af de ældre i en temmelig lang serie.

“Han rejste sig fra scooterens sæde for at afprøve sneens bæredygtighed. Den nyfaldne sne var blød, men den bidende kulde havde fået lagene nedenunder til at størkne. Han sank ikke mere end en fem-seks centimeter ned. Godt.

De kimende klokker lød igen i hans hoved: tid.

Det havde i hvert fald virket godt nok til at fjerne enhver risiko for, at de kunne pågribe ham. Dén oplevelse ændrede ham, gav ham smag for blod, smag for virkelig magt.”

Reglerne:
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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 24

[Photo: DJ]

In this fairly old crime novel, the second in a series, someone walks along the beach and finds a body. (Never heard that one before, have you?)

“His blue eyes widened suddenly, his body becoming strangely still… That was what came of going into cold water before breakfast! Lunacy, so help him. Spoiling other people´s breakfasts, too. Schaefer´s best, except where ribs broken. Not likely to be ribs broken. Perhaps only a faint after all. Assure the patient in a loud voice that he is safe. Her arms and legs were as brown as the sand. That was why he had thought the green thing a piece of cloth. Lunacy, so help him. Who wanted cold water in the dawn unless they had to swim for it? …

There was no need for Schaefer´s, nor for any other method. He saw that at a glance. The girl was past all help. And he, who had picked bodies unemotionally from the Red Sea surf, was strangely moved. It was all wrong that someone so young should be lying there when all the world was waking up to a brilliant day; when so much of life lay in front of her. A pretty girl too, she must have been. Her hair had a dyed look, but the rest of her was all right.”

The Rules:
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Gæt en bog # 24.
Denne lidt ældre, engelske krimi er den anden i en serie. Den begynder med, at en person går langs stranden og finder et lig.

”Hans blå øjne spærredes pludselig op, og hans krop blev mærkeligt stille… Det var, hvad der kom ud af at gå ud i koldt vand før morgenmaden! Vanvid, Gud hjælpe ham. Ødelægge andre menneskers morgenmad, tilmed. Schafers metode [en genoplivningsmetode] er bedst, med mindre der er brækkede ribben. Ikke sandsynligt, at der er brækkede ribben. Måske er det trods alt bare en besvimelse. Forsikre patienten om, at han er i sikkerhed, med høj og tydelig stemme. Hendes arme og ben var lige så brune som sandet. Det var derfor, han havde troet, den grønne tingest var et stykke stof. Vanvid, Gud hjælpe ham. Hvem kunne tænke sig koldt vand om morgenen, med mindre det var for at svømme i det? …

Der var ikke brug for Schafers, eller nogen som helst anden metode. Han så det med et øjekast. Pigen var ude over al hjælp. Og han, som uden at føle noget videre havde samlet kroppe op fra det Røde Hav, var underligt bevæget. Det var helt forkert, at så ung en person skulle ligge der, når hele verden var ved at vågne op til en vidunderlig dag; når så meget af livet lå foran hende. Hun måtte tilmed have været en køn pige. Hendes hår så farvet ud, men resten af hende var i orden.”

Reglerne:
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DJ's Bait in the Box # 22

This Scandinavian novel is not the first in the series – but might seem so.

“There´s a dead girl in Kronoberg Park.” This one had the breathless voice of a heavy drug user. Amphetamines perhaps.
She took her eyes away from the screen and fumbled for a pen amid the mess on her desk. “How do you know?” she asked, too much skepticism in her voice.
“Because I´m fucking standing next to it.!” The voice rose to falsetto and she held the phone away from her ear.
“Okay. How dead?” she said, realizing she sounded ridiculous.
“Shit! Stone dead! How fucking dead can you be?”

The Rules:
If you recognize the quotation, or if you think you are able to guess who wrote it, please post a comment. Just leave a hint, do not spoil the fun by giving too much away. The book will be reviewed (briefly) on Friday.

Gæt en bog # 22.
Denne skandinaviske krimi er ikke den første i serien – selv om man kunne tro det.

- Der ligger en død pige i Kronobergsparken. Stemmen var stakåndet, sproget vidnede om et regelmæssigt forbrug af amfetamin.
Hun slap skærmen med blikket og fumlede efter en pen på det rodede skrivebord.
- Hvordan ved du det? spurgte hun alt for skeptisk.
- Fordi jeg står her lige ved siden af, for fa´n! Stemmen gik i falset; hun fjernede røret lidt fra øret.
- Jaså, hvordan død? spurgte hun og kunne selv høre, hvor idiotisk det lød.
- Jamen stendød, for helvede! Hvor død kan man være?

Reglerne:
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DJ´s Bait in the Box # 21

[The beautiful box belongs to Kerrie, Mysteries in Paradise]

This British crime novel is among the earliest in a long series.

“The child was lying partially on its stomach just beyond the flintstone wall in a bed of bloomless creeping jenny. By the length and the cut of hair it appeared to be a boy. He was very dead. Even if she had been silly enough or hysterical enough to convince herself that he was merely asleep, explaining why he would be sleeping completely naked in a late afternoon growing colder by the minute was an impossibility. And why under a tree in a copse of pines where the temperature was even lower than it would be had he sought out the last rays of the afternoon sun? And why would he sleep in that unusual position, with his right hip taking the burden of his weight and his legs splayed out, and his right arm twisted awkwardly so that it was doubled up beneath itself, and his head turned to the left with three-quarters of it pressed into the ground, into the creeping jenny? Yet his skin was quite flushed – very nearly red – and surely that indicated warmth, life, the pulse and flow of blood…”

The Rules:
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Gæt en bog # 21.
Denne britiske krimi er blandt de første i en lang serie.

“Barnet lå delvist på maven lige ved siden af flintestensmuren i et bed af fredløs uden blomster. Ud fra frisuren og hårlængden så det ud til at være en dreng. Han var meget død. Selv hvis hun havde været fjollet og hysterisk nok til at overbevise sig selv om, at han kun sov, var det umuligt at forklare, hvorfor han skulle ligge og sove fuldstændigt nøgen en sen eftermiddag, som blev koldere og koldere for hvert minut. Og hvorfor under et træ i en underskov af fyrretræer hvor temperaturen var endnu lavere end den ville have været hvis han havde udsøgt sig eftermiddagens sidste solstråler? Og hvorfor skulle han sove i den usædvanlige stilling, med vægten på højre hofte og benene drejet udad, og hans højre arm vredet så akavet at den var helt foldet sammen, og hovedet drejet mod venstre, så tre fjerdedele af det blev presset ned i jorden, ned i bedet med fredløs? Og dog glødede hans hud – næsten rødt – og det måtte bestemt betyde varme, liv, puls og strømmende blod…”

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DJ´s Bait in the box # 20 (konkurrence)

[The pretty box belongs to Julia, A Piece of My Mind]

This Scandinavian crime novel is a debut. For English readers, please leave a hint as usual, but remember not to write the title or the author´s name as this post is a competition for Scandinavian readers who can win a Danish book.

The book will be reviewed on Sunday to give the participants time to send in their answers.

“When her father called one Monday evening in October, for the first time in nearly a year, he made Julia think of bones washed up on a stony beach. Bones, white as mother-of-pearl and polished by the waves, almost luminous among the grey stones in the water´s edge.
Bone fragments.
Julia didn´t know if they could be found there by the beach, but she had waited for more than twenty years to see them.”

Gæt en bog # 20 – konkurrence.
Denne uges gæt en bog er specielt rettet mod skandinaviske læsere. Send mig en mail med titel og forfatternavn på den skandinaviske debut, og vind en dansk bog. Konkurrencen udløber søndag aften ved midnat.

”Da hendes far ringede en mandag aften i oktober, for første gang i næsten et år, fik han Julia til at begynde at tænke på ben som blev skyllet op på en stenet strand.
Ben, hvide som perlemor og blankslebne af bølgerne, næsten selvlysende blandt de grå sten i vandkanten.
Benstumper.
Julia vidste ikke, om de fandtes der ved stranden, men hun havde ventet i over tyve år på at få dem at se.”

Konkurrence-regler:
1) send en mail med forfatterens navn og bogens titel til do.hu.ja@mail.tele.dk
- husk at skrive din postadresse på, og den ønskede bog (jeg sender også til udland)

2) få en ekstra vinderchance ved at reklamere for konkurrencen på din blog – på dansk eller et andet skandinavisk sprog (husk at sende mig et link).

Gevinsten: frit valg mellem tre brugte krimier (læst én gang)

1.Mary Higgins Clark, Stille som graven – hardback
2. Mary Higgins Clark, Kærlighedsmordet – hardback
3.Colin Dexter, Mord i annekset – paperback (vist nok ubrugt).

DJ's Bait in the Box # 19

[This week´s box belongs to Cathy, Kittling: Books]

This novel is not the first in a series.

“… behind him the cellar hatch is open. He did not heed it, he was shuffling, but I could see he was losing his composure and I imagined he might stab me if he didn´t get what he wanted soon. And then I pushed him. There was a gasp when he tumbled backwards down the steep stairs. It hammered and crashed against the steps. As he hit the cement floor, I heard an ugly, dull sound. A feeble rattle, which lasted for a couple of seconds. Then everything was quiet.”

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Gæt en bog # 19
Denne roman er ikke den første i serien.

“… bag ham står kælderlemmen åben. Han ænsede den ikke, han stod og trippede, men jeg så, at han var ved at miste besindelsen, og jeg forestillede mig, at han kunne finde på at stikke mig ned, hvis han ikke snart fik det som han ville. Og så skubbede jeg til ham. Der lød et gisp, da han røg baglæns ned ad den stejle trappe. Det dundrede og bragede mod trinnene. Idet han ramte cementgulvet hørte jeg en hæslig, dump lyd. En svag rallen, der varede et par sekunder. Så blev der stille.”

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