Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Around the world in 2012

I managed to travel virtually to 30 countries during 2012 via the books I read.  Here's the breakdown and the full list of titles below.

29:  United States
15:  England
9:  Ireland
5:   Scotland
3:   Germany, France
2:   Iceland, South Africa, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy
1:   Belguim, Sweden, Cambodia, Eygpt, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Laos, Russia, Denmark, Turkey, Australia, Poland, Canada
5:  Multiple countries (including Ireland, England, Austria, Hungary, Poland, France, Germany, Australia, China, India, Burma, Singapore)
3:  Short story collections
11: non-fiction

United States
Edge of Dark Water by Joe R Lansdale *****
Johnny Porno by Charlie Stella *****
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore *****
Storm Front by Jim Butcher *****
The Rocksburg Railroad Murders by K.C. Constantine ****.5
Dig Two Graves by Eric Beetner ****.5
The Pistol Poets by Victor Gischler ****.5
Cypress Grove by James Sallis ****
Money Shot by Christa Faust ****
Even Flow by Darragh McManus****
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollack ****
The Last Policeman by Ben Winters ****
The Science of Paul by Aaron Philip Clark ****
The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson ****
Dead Harvest by Chris F Holm ****
Hill Country by R. Thomas Brown ****
Choke on Your Lies by Anthony Neil Smith ****
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes ****
Cadaver Blues by J.E. Fishman ***.5
Nobody's Perfect by Donald Westlake ***.5
Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig ***.5
Shaman Pass by Stan Jones ***.5
The Black Box by Michael Connelly ***
Dust Devils by James Reasoner ***
The Shark Infested Custard by Charles Willeford ***
Star Island by Carl Hiassen ***
Head Games by Craig McDonald *** 
The Dead Detective by William Heffernan ***
A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller **.5

England
We Are the Hanged Man by Douglas Lindsay *****
The Envoy by Edward Wilson *****
Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill ****.5
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton ****.5
Restless by William Boyd ****
The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin ****
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter ****
Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis ****
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie ***.5
Where the Devil Can't Go by Anya Lipska ***.5
Tollesbury Times Forever by Stuart Aylis ***.5
Crime at Christmas by C.H.B. Kitchin ***
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey ***
Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller ***
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths ***

Ireland
The Nameless Dead by Brian McGilloway *****
The Point by Gerard Brennan *****
The Cold, Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty *****
Ghost Town by Michael Clifford ****.5
Red Ribbons by Louise Phillips ***.5
Slaughter's Hound by Declan Burke ***.5
A June of Ordinary Murders by Conor Brady ***.5
Black Sheep by Arlene Hunt ***.5
The Eighty Five Billion Euro Man by Donal Conaty ***

Scotland
Blood Tears by Michael J Malone *****
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin ****.5
The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay ****.5
White Nights by Ann Cleeves ****
The Black House by Peter May ***

Germany
The Killing of Emma Gross by Damien Seaman ****.5
Silesian Station by David Downing ****.5
The Sleepwalkers by Paul Grossman ***

France
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson ****
The Imitation of Patsy Burke by John J Gaynard ****
Death on the Marias by Adrian Magson ***.5

Iceland
The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning by Hallgrimur Helgason ***.5
Black Skies by Arnaldur Indridason ***

South Africa
Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith *****
Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer ****.5

Austria
A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis ****
Brenner and God by Wolf Haas **.5

Czech Republic
Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr ***.5
HHhH by Laurent Binet ***

Italy
Day After Day by Carlo Lucarelli ***.5
A Death in Tuscany by Michele Giuttari ***

Belguim
No Sale by Patrick Conrad ****

Sweden
The Man on the Balcony by Majs Sowall and Pers Wahloo ****

Cambodia
Ghost Money by Andrew Nette ***.5

Eygpt
The Golden Scales by Parker Bilal ***.5

Brazil
Buried Strangers by Leighton Gage ***

Spain
Or The Bull Kills You by Jason Webster ***

Netherlands
A Long Silence by Nicolas Freeling **

Thailand
Killed at the Whim of a Hat by Colin Cotterill **

Russia
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith ***

Denmark
Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen *** 

Turkey
Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon ******

Australia
A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill ***.5

Poland
Lumen by Ben Pastor ***.5

Canada
White Heat by M.J. McGrath *****

More than one country
The City of Shadows by Michael Russell *****
A Dark Place to Die by Ed Chatterton ****
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst ****
The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming ***.5
The Last Sunrise by Robert Ryan ***
Incompetence by Rob Grant ***
The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid **.5

Collected short stories
Snapshots by Paul Brazill ****.5
Old School by Dan O'Shea ****
Manchester 6 by Col Bury ***.5

Non-fiction
Homicide by David Simon *****
Resistance by Matthew Cobb *****
The Victory Lab by Sasha Issenberg ****.5
Only a Game? by Eamon Dunphy ****
When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson ****
Spies in the Sky by Taylor Downing ***.5
The Great Crash 1929 by JK Galbraith ***
The Information by James Gleick ***
The Untouchables by Shane Ross and Nick Ross ***
The Barbed-Wire University by Midge Gillies ***
Death in the City of Light by David King ***
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