The Best Books of 2021: Thrillers
/Readers, whose nerves were probably already on the ragged edge, could still enjoy these thrillers.
Read MoreReaders, whose nerves were probably already on the ragged edge, could still enjoy these thrillers.
Read MoreWill the grim news out in the real world sap the enjoyment from the pages of invented murder and mayhem? Not with these Best Mysteries of 2021!
Read MoreThe authors work a kind of magic in the book that’s evident even in translation; the combination of reporting and novel-writing going on here shouldn’t work as well as it does. The Father (the book is Part 1 – Quercus will bring out The Sons next year) is incredibly gripping reading, every bit as good – in fact, often quite a bit better – than the faddish Swedish crime fiction that’s been dominating the fiction bestseller lists for over a decade. We get prickly insights into Ivan, the violent paterfamilias of this crime family, into his sons Leo, Vincent, and Felix, and, intriguingly, into the mind frame of the mother, Britt-Marie. And the tension hardly ever lets up – the writing team does a very effective job of constantly working the narrative’s tempo:
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