2012 Nordic Reading Challenge completed

I seem to have read an awful lot of Swedish crime fiction this year.

First of all 1 in 7 of the books that I have read have been Nordic, and then of that 20, nearly half have been Swedish., and looking from another perspective, half have been new-to-me authors (marked **).

The 2012 Nordic Challenge was hosted by Notes from the North and I aimed to read 11-20 books.

Among my selection were some old favourites too.

1. 4.7, PHANTOM, Jo Nesbo (Norway)
2. 5.0, THE CALLER, Karin Fossum (Norway)
3. 4.8, THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE, Lena Kaarbol & Agnete Friis (Denmark) **
4. 4.4, NIGHT ROUNDS, Helene Tursten (Sweden)
5. 4.8, 1222, Anne Holt (Norway) **
6. 4.7, HEADHUNTERS, Jo Nesbo (Norway)
7. 4.5, MURDER AT THE SAVOY, Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo (Sweden)
8. 4.7, THE ABOMINABLE MAN, Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo (Sweden)
9. 4.5, THE FLATEY ENIGMA, Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson (Iceland) **
10. 4.7, DREGS, Jon Lier Horst (Norway) **
11. 4.5, THE FINAL MURDER, Anne Holt (Norway)
12. 4.6, NEXT OF KIN, Elsebeth Egholm (Denmark) **
13. 5.0, THE QUARRY, Johan Theorin (Norway)
14. 4.6, THE MIND'S EYE, Hakan Nesser (??)
15. 4.5, THE STONE-CUTTER, Camilla Lackberg (Sweden) **
16. 4.5, THE BLACK PATH, Asa Larsson (Sweden)
17. 4.3, MIDWINTER SACRIFICE, Mons Kallentoft (Sweden) ** 
18. 4.7, DEATH OF A CARPET DEALER, Karin Wahlberg (Sweden) **
19. 4.5, THE BOMBER, Lisa Marklund (Sweden) **
20. 4.5, LETHAL INVESTMENTS, K.O. Dahl (Sweden) **