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Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen, trns by Megan Turney

A very happy paperback publication day to Jenny Lund Madsen. Thirty Days of Darkness is out today and very highly recommended. @jennylundmadsen @orendabooks @annecater14 @meganturney94 #books #thirtydaysofdarkness #bookreview #bookstagram

Wishing Jenny Lund Madsen a very happy paperback publication day. I loved reading Thirty Days of Darkness last year and am delighted to share my review again as part of a publication day blitz. Mandie will be sharing a brand new review tomorrow too, so do stop by. My thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for the invite to join the celebration. Here’s what the book’s all about: Source:…

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Een uitgelezen november

In november las ik 13 boeken. Van mijn topfavoriet ben ik nog altijd stil. Welke dat is, ontdek je hier.

November was niet alleen in Antwerpen boekenmaand. Er was Boektopia, Voorleesweek, de voorstelling van de nieuwe Grote Vriendelijke 100 en voor het werk mag ik ook nog een opleiding Jeugdliteratuur voor bibliotheekmedewerkers volgen. Gevolg: veel prikkels en een uitgebreide WIL-lijst om de winter mee door te komen.November, maand van de doden. En dat zal mijn boekenlijstje geweten hebben. (more…)

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Best crime and thrillers of 2023

Given this year’s headlines, it’s unsurprising that our appetite for cosy crime continues unabated, with the latest title in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, The Last Devil to Die (Viking), topping the bestseller lists. Janice Hallett’s novels The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, which also features a group of amateur crime-solvers, and The Christmas Appeal (both Viper) have proved phenomenally popular, too.

Hallett’s books, which are constructed as dossiers – transcripts, emails, WhatsApp messages and the like – are part of a growing trend of experimentation with form, ranging from Cara Hunter’s intricate Murder in the Family (HarperCollins), which is structured around the making of a cold case documentary, to Gareth Rubin’s tête-bêche The Turnglass (Simon & Schuster). Books that hark back to the golden age of crime, such as Tom Mead’s splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery Death and the Conjuror (Head of Zeus), are also on the rise. The late Christopher Fowler, author of the wonderful Bryant & May detective series, who often lamented the sacrifice of inventiveness and fun on the altar of realism, would surely have approved. Word Monkey (Doubleday), published posthumously, is his funny and moving memoir of a life spent writing popular fiction.

Notable debuts include Callum McSorley’s Glaswegian gangland thriller Squeaky Clean (Pushkin Vertigo); Jo Callaghan’s In the Blink of an Eye (Simon & Schuster), a police procedural with an AI detective; Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (Pushkin Vertigo), featuring queer punk nun investigator Sister Holiday; and the caustically funny Thirty Days of Darkness (Orenda) by Jenny Lund Madsen (translated from the Danish by Megan E Turney).

There have been welcome additions to series, including a third book, Case Sensitive (Zaffre), for AK Turner’s forensic investigator Cassie Raven, and a second, The Wheel of Doll (Pushkin Vertigo), for Jonathan Ames’s LA private eye Happy Doll, who is shaping up to be the perfect hardboiled 21st-century hero.

Other must-reads for fans of American crime fiction include Ozark Dogs (Headline) by Eli Cranor, a powerful story of feuding Arkansas families; SA Cosby’s Virginia-set police procedural All the Sinners Bleed (Headline); Megan Abbott’s nightmarish Beware the Woman (Virago); and Rebecca Makkai’s foray into very dark academia, I Have Some Questions for You (Fleet). There are shades of James Ellroy in Jordan Harper’s Hollywood-set tour de force Everybody Knows (Faber), while Raymond Chandler’s hero Philip Marlowe gets a timely do-over from Scottish crime doyenne Denise Mina in The Second Murderer (Harvill Secker).

As Mick Herron observed in his Slow Horses origin novel, The Secret Hours (Baskerville), there’s a long list of spy novelists who have been pegged as the heir to John le Carré. Herron must be in pole position for principal legatee, but it’s been a good year for espionage generally: standout novels include Matthew Richardson’s The Scarlet Papers (Michael Joseph), John Lawton’s Moscow Exile (Grove Press) and Harriet Crawley’s The Translator (Bitter Lemon).

Historical crime has also been well served. Highlights include Emma Flint’s excellent Other Women (Picador), based on a real 1924 murder case; Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s story of a fortune teller’s quest for identity in Georgian high society, The Square of Sevens (Mantle); and SG MacLean’s tale of Restoration revenge and retribution, The Winter List (Quercus). There are echoes of Chester Himes in Viper’s Dream (No Exit) by Jake Lamar, which begins in 1930s Harlem, while Palace of Shadows (Mantle) by Ray Celestin, set in the late 19th century, takes the true story of American weapons heiress Sarah Winchester’s San Jose mansion and transports it to Yorkshire, with chillingly gothic results.

The latest novel in Vaseem Khan’s postcolonial India series, Death of a Lesser God (Hodder), is also well worth the read, as are Deepti Kapoor’s present-day organised crime saga Age of Vice (Fleet) and Parini Shroff’s darkly antic feminist revenge drama The Bandit Queens (Atlantic).

While psychological thrillers are thinner on the ground than in previous years, the quality remains high, with Liz Nugent’s complex and heartbreaking tale of abuse, Strange Sally Diamond (Penguin Sandycove), and Sarah Hilary’s disturbing portrait of a family in freefall, Black Thorn (Macmillan), being two of the best.

Penguin Modern Classics has revived its crime series, complete with iconic green livery, with works by Georges Simenon, Dorothy B Hughes and Ross MacDonald. There have been reissues by other publishers, too – forgotten gems including Celia Fremlin’s 1959 holiday‑from-hell novel, Uncle Paul (Faber), and Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground (Vintage). Finished in 1942 but only now published in its entirety, the latter is an account of an innocent man who takes refuge from racist police officers in the sewers of Chicago – part allegorical, part brutally realistic and, unfortunately, wholly topical.

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Thirty Days Of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen

Thirty Days Of Darkness

By Jenny Lund Madsen

Translated by Megan Turney

Orenda Books

Publication Date: 25 May 2023

One of the UK’s most renowned publishers of translated crime fiction is Orenda books who have been regularly publishing novels by established Nordic Noir writers such as Gunnar Staalesen and Kjell Ola Dahl as well as more relative newcomers such as Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and Agnes Ravatn. Denmark’s Jenny Lund Madsen is an exciting new addition to that list as the publisher bring out her first novel in the English language. A very well-established script writer in her home country, her creativity has emanated in Danish television shows such as Follow The Money which was a three series drama series which followed the illegal activities of corporate crime circles, fraudsters and opportunists, which was shown on the BBC and also the comedy drama Rita which is available on Netflix.

While both indicate the author’s high standards of writing, it’s fair to say that neither resembles Thirty Days Of Darkness, other than perhaps their worldly viewpoint. Jenny Lund Madsen’s main character in the novel doesn’t stray too far away from her own occupation as our narrator Hannah is an author. Yet Hannah’s success as an author is measured, while her novels have reached critical acclaim, unfortunately they do not sell well to the general public. When she reluctantly attends a book fair in an attempt to sell her latest book, at the request of her agent, she finds herself infuriated by a discussion led by a high-profile crime writer. Unable to resist, she publicly scathes him for what she feels is his formulaic writing style and as a result he challenges her to write her own crime fiction novel. Her agent, pleased by the coverage of the interaction decides this is a great idea and arranges for Hannah to stay with someone he knows in a remote part of Iceland where he hopes she would feel inspired to write her novel. Feeling she has no choice but to agree, Hannah travels to Iceland but struggles to adjust to the very different environment to her home city of Copenhagen and wishes to return immediately, however when the nephew of the lady she is lodging with is found dead in potentially suspicious circumstances she agrees to remain, in part as this may inspire her own novel but also as she is intrigued to try to solve the mystery. The story is told from Hannah’s perspective alone as she tried to uncover what has happened to the boy while also trying to write a story loosely based on what she is learning along the way.

In recent years the foreboding Icelandic landscape has provided a rich and varied setting for crime fiction novels by both authors from that country and increasingly from other locations. Despite the title, Thirty Days Of Darkness is not wholly of dark subject nature, there are some amusing situations that occur during the novel as well as some particular revealing insights to the book publishing business. The main character Hannah is an introspective character, a loner who doesn’t always behave in an orthodox manner. While looking to say as little as possible about the storyline, I believe that Thirty Days Of Darkness is a novel that will have real appeal for readers of crime fiction and I am very keen to read more from Jenny Lund Madsen in the future.

The blurb:

A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then the first body appears… Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer’s block, Hannah has the feeling that she’s doing something wrong. When she expresses her contempt for genre fiction, Hanna is publicly challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days. Scared that she will lose face, she accepts, and her editor sends her to Húsafjörður – a quiet, tight-knit village in Iceland, filled with colourful local characters – for inspiration. But two days after her arrival, the body of a fisherman’s young son is pulled from the water … and what begins as a search for plot material quickly turns into a messy and dangerous investigation that threatens to uncover secrets that put everything at risk … including Hannah.

About the author

Jenny Lund Madsen is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed scriptwriters (including the international hits Rita and Follow the Money) and is known as an advocate for better representation for sexual and ethnic minorities in Danish TV and film. She recently made her debut as a playwright with the critically acclaimed Audition (Aarhus Teater) and her debut literary thriller, Thirty Days of Darkness, first in an addictive new series, won the Harald Mogensen Prize for Best Danish Crime Novel of the year and was shortlisted for the coveted Glass Key Award. She lives in Denmark with her young family.

Many thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for inclusion on the blog tour and Orenda Books for providing me with an advance copy of Thirty Days Of Darkness. Please look out for the other reviews of this book on the blog tour as shown below.

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Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen  by Jenny Lund Madsen  translated by  Megan E. Turney @JennyLundMadsen @OrendaBooks @meganeturney @RandomTTours

Thirty Days of Darkness is a terrific read, full of wit and yet beautifully dark and atmospheric. I thoroughly enjoyed this sparkling debut.

Source: Review copyPublication: Paperback – May 9th from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1914585616 A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then the first body appears… Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical…

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"Thirty Days of Darkness" by Jenny Lund Madsen - #BlogTour @RandomTTours #Book Review @OrendaBooks @JennyLundMadsen #ThirtyDaysOfDarkness @meganeturney #NordicNoir

What an unusual and quirky protagonist! At first I didn’t know what to make of Hannah. She seemed narcissistic, haughty, and supercilious. Oh and funny, did I mention funny? Then as the pages flew by, I realized that over the course of this book, she evolved. She found some true friends, learned to empathize with others, and became a better person. But yes, she was still funny. Hannah…

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Book Review: Thirty Days of Darkness, by Jenny Lund Madsen

PUBLICATION DATE: 9 MAY 2024PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £16.99 | ORENDA BOOKS A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novelin thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration,and then the first body appears… Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community andher novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actuallyreads them,…

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Thirty Days of Darkness - Jenny Lund Madsen

Thirty Days of Darkness, by Jenny Lund Madsen. Out now from @orendabooks. Loved it. Brilliant concept, fantastic setting, recommended for lovers of Nordic crime fiction.

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer’ s block, Hannah has the feeling that she’ s doing something wrong. When she expresses her contempt for genre fiction, Hanna is publicly challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days. Scared that she will lose face,…

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Black River by Nilanjana Roy; Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen; Killingly by Katharine Beutner; The End of Us by Olivia Kiernan; The Trial by Rob RinderBlack River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo, £16.99)Framed as a police...

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#BlogTour – #BookReview of #ThirtyDaysOfDarkness by @JennyLundMadsen @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours #RandomThingsTours #NordicNoir

I’m pleased to welcome you today to my stop on the blog tour for darkly humorous and twisted thriller Thirty Days of Darkness, first book in a brand new series by Jenny Lund Madsen. Thank you to Anne Cater and Orenda Books for giving me the opportunity to read this fabulous book. About the book: Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved…

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Trente jours d’obscurité, Jenny Lund Madsen

Hannah est une autrice danoise de « vraie » littérature, qui exècre la littérature de genre... et qui déteste encore plus Jorn Jensen, auteur de polar à succès. Elle lui tient tête en disant que n'importe quel idiot est capable d'écrire un polar en un mois... et la voilà partie pour l'Islande, avec un délai de trente jours pour écrire son roman. Sauf qu'à peine arrivée, un adolescent trouve la mort. Ni une ni deux, voilà Hannah enquêtrice — mais très maladroite.

C’est un polar très original, qui se dévore d'une traite ! J'ai adoré le lien entre le thème de l'écriture, et entre l'histoire. On a parfois une mise en abîme entre le roman et celui que Hannah écrit, et c’est super intéressant. En plus, on assiste aussi à une évolution du personnage principal, qui passe de snob au début du livre à beaucoup plus sympa et humble à la fin !

Vers le milieu de l’histoire, je pensais avoir deviné qui était le tueur (il y avait de plus en plus d’éléments qui me faisaient penser ça), mais au final je me suis bien faite balader, et j’ai adoré ! Par ce côté-là, ça m’a un peu rappelé La vertu du mensonge de Ellen G. Simensen, un polar norvégien (et premier roman également) qui était sorti chez Gallmeister cet hiver. Tu peux d’ailleurs retrouver ma chronique sur ce blog : )

Les éditions Gallmeister frappent encore en plein dans le mille avec ce premier roman danois, et nous prouvent qu'ils ont décidément très bien fait de s'ouvrir au reste du monde !

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Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen, trns by Megan Turney

Today over on the blog I share my thoughts on Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen @JennyLundMadsen @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours #meganturney #books #teamorenda #booktwitter #booktwt #thirtydaysofdarkness

Today I am sharing my thoughts on Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen, one of #TeamOrenda’s new authors. Always love to discover new authors in translation. My thanks to Karen Sullivan for sending the advance copy and to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for the tour invite. Here’s what the book’s all about: Source: Advance Reader CopyRelease Date: 25 May 2023Publisher: Orenda…

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3 X inspiratie voor schrijvers

Een schrijver op zoek naar inspiratie. Het is een dankbaar onderwerp voor een schrijver op zoek naar inspiratie. Lees nu de uitgelichte titels op mijn blog.

Een misdaadauteur bevindt zich middenin een moordonderzoek. Meer moet dat niet zijn om inspiratie voor een volgend boek op te doen. Of is het: een misdaadauteur vindt geen inspiratie voor zijn volgende boek en plaatst zijn hoofdpersonage – dat toevallig misdaadauteur is – middenin een moordonderzoek. Toeval of niet? De drie boeken die ik jullie willen voorleggen, spelen zich ook nog eens allemaal…

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#recensie #bookaddict #boekisuit #review Jenny Lund Madsen - Dertig dagen duisternis @jennylundmadsen #jennylundmadsen #dertigdagenduisternis Vertaald door Cor de Vries. Wie heeft dit boek gelezen? Januari @ladiesofcrime ............ Bedankt Kelly @amboanthos voor het #recensieexemplaar #leesexemplaar #amboanthos #uitgeverijamboanthos #amboanthosuitgevers ............ Mening: Een interessant verhaal over een literaire auteur die wordt uitgelokt om te zeggen dat ze een 'simpele' thriller kan schrijven binnen 1 maand. Totaal iets anders dan haar eerdere boeken. Ze gaat logeren in een dorpje wat op het eerste oog een rustig oord is, maar niets is minder waar. Goed en onverwacht plottwist. 3.5 ⭐ ............ Inhoud: In Dertig dagen duisternis van Jenny Lund Madsen stuit een schrijver op zoek naar inspiratie op een moordzaak. Dertig dagen duisternis is bekroond als beste Deense thriller van 2020. Voor fans van de tv-serie Trapped. Hannah is een romanschrijver wier boeken goed staan aangeschreven, maar nauwelijks worden verkocht. Dan gaat ze een weddenschap aan met een collegaschrijver om in dertig dagen een thriller te schrijven en ze reist naar een klein dorp in IJsland, Húsafjöður, om inspiratie op te doen. Een paar dagen na haar aankomst wordt het lichaam van de zoon van een visser uit zee gehaald. Hij leed aan hydrofobie, dus hoe kan hij zijn verdronken? Of was het een ongeluk? Wat begint als een zoektocht naar materiaal voor haar boek, mondt snel uit in een moordonderzoek. Zal Hannah de dader vinden? En zal ze haar thriller kunnen schrijven? Uit het juryrapport van de Harald Mogensenprijs: ‘Met haar kronkelige verhaal over de snobistische hoogliteraire schrijfster Hannah, die in licht aangeschoten toestand beweert dat ze in dertig dagen een gangbare Scandinavische misdaadroman uit haar mouw kan schudden, heeft Jenny Lund Madsen een spannende, originele en stijlvol geschreven misdaadroman afgeleverd.’ ............ #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookstagramnl #bookstagrammers #boekstagram #instabook #dutchbookstagram #instaboek #dutchbookstagrammers #dutchbookstagrammer #thriller #spannendeboeken #scandithriller #thrillerbooks #Scandinavischethriller https://www.instagram.com/p/CbUdV3Og6Nt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Governor's Art Exhibition to Display Sweetwater County Artists' Work | SweetwaterNOW

Life & Death #3 (Allium) by David Metz, Rock Springs, is one of the many pieces of artwork on display at from February 20 through August 13 in the Capitol Extension in Cheyenne. Courtesy photo

Some of Wyoming’s finest artists will be recognized during the 2020 Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition reception in the Wyoming State Capitol Extension Friday, April 24, from 5-8 p.m.

The works of 62 artists representing 17 Wyoming counties are included in this year’s Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition. The juried exhibition, which is staged every two years, will be on display from February 20 through August 13 in the Capitol Extension in Cheyenne.

Works receiving purchase awards, people’s choice award, Governor’s choice award and Bobby Hathaway juror’s choice award will be announced during the reception. Works receiving purchase awards will join the museum’s prestigious art collections. All works in the exhibition are for sale.

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For the first time in its 20-year history, the Exhibition will not take place at the Wyoming State Museum.

“The Capitol Extension provides space for a larger show than we could accommodate at the State Museum,” Museum director Mark Brammer said. “It is a fantastic space with a purpose-built hanging system. I am excited to see the Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition installed there.”

For more information, please contact Mark Brammer at (307)777-8021.

This Gradient Crystal Platter by Curtis Holcomb, Cheyenne, is just one of the many pieces of art on display. Courtesy photo.

Artists selected for this year’s show are: Jenny Dowd, Alpine; Mona Monroe, Alta; Robert Vore, Beulah; Justin Hayward, Michelle Martin, Casper; Trenda Allen, Donatellia Austin, Jerry Geist, Tim Haley, Curtis Holcomb, Danielle Kirby, Terry Kreuzer, Tom Nicholas, Georgia Rowswell, Cerrina Smith, Cheyenne.

Tanner Loren, Rowena Trapp, Rebecca Weed, Cody; David McDougall, Dayton; Ginny Butcher, Evansville; Rede Ballard, Nancy Brown, Mark Paxton, Gillette; Candace Ingram, Glendo; Jacob Muldowney, Green River; Gerald Antolik, Amber Nation, Hudson; Kay Stratman, Kathy Wipfler, Jackson; Barrie Bryant, Kirby.

John Baker, Jimmy Devine, Jerry Glass, Robert Kirkwood, Eric Krszjzaniek, Thomas Lund, Jon Madsen, Ginnie Madsen, Gailey Russel, Edward Sherline, Laramie; Mack Brislawn, Moorcroft; Curt Theobald, Pine Bluffs; Cristy Anspach, Karla Bird, Richard Burke, David Klaren, Sue Sommers, Pinedale.

Stephanie Rose, Jane Woods, Powell; Armanda Margrave, David Metz, Paul Ng, Rock Springs; Lori Kostur, Saratoga; Warren Adams, Joanne Bornong, Brittney Denham, Sally LaBore, Elizabeth Thurow, Sheridan; Eileen Nistler, Upton; Joe Reichardt, Wheatland; Laurie Thal, Wilson; Rhonda Schmeltzer, Worland.

This content was originally published here.

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Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen  by Jenny Lund Madsen  translated by  Megan E. Turney @JennyLundMadsen @OrendaBooks @meganeturney @RandomTTours

I absolutely loved this book and I commend it to all lovers of crime fiction. It is refreshingly different, wonderfully witty and has a great plot as well as terrific characters.

Source: Review copyPublication: May 25th from Orenda BooksPP: 300ISBN-13: 978-1914585616 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then the first body appears… Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and…