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May 2020
1:54pm, 22 May 2020
33,829 posts
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Night-owl
I use a rather basic app called My library I'm sure there are others and probably better.
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May 2020
1:57pm, 22 May 2020
2,537 posts
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Fellrunning
The Hanne Wilhelmson series by Anne Holt. As Hanne is in Oslo PD like Harry Hole (Jo Nesbo) I often wonder if they know each other.
The Rebekka Martenson series by Asa Larsson (No relation to Stieg) set in Northern Sweden.
The Department Q series set in Copenhagen by Jussi Adler-Olsen.
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May 2020
8:22pm, 22 May 2020
10,634 posts
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mrs shanksi
McGoohan I use Goodreads.
Great suggestions all of you.
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May 2020
9:51pm, 22 May 2020
45,426 posts
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McGoohan
I have indeed been scanning my shelves with the GoodReads app 
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May 2020
9:51pm, 22 May 2020
45,427 posts
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McGoohan
(They made films of those Dept Q books. I saw the first one - it was pretty good.)
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May 2020
10:18pm, 22 May 2020
2,157 posts
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DazTheSlug
to be clear
this is by nationality of author? (Conrad was born Polish)
not by country in which set? (even if they lived there for many years without changing nationality)
or language in which written?
oh, and OP says translated into English but then lists Roddy Doyle - did he write that one in Gaelic? are we precluding all books written in English?
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May 2020
10:18pm, 22 May 2020
6,861 posts
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WA
Ooh those lists are reminding me of so many books I've read and enjoyed.
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May 2020
10:29pm, 22 May 2020
33,837 posts
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Night-owl
Daz
For me
Its country the author was born and has generally lived in the country ( not moved to anther country when they were 5 or 50 )
For some countries the main language is English. My parents were Irish and their main language was English though did learn the Irish language at school
I'm only reading books in English so some will be translated
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May 2020
11:59pm, 22 May 2020
9,955 posts
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rf_fozzy
If you like Fantasy, I can recommend the "Night Watch" series by Sergi Lukyanenko.
I've just bought the final 2 books in the series, but it's so long since I read the first 4, I'm re-reading them. Currently just finishing 'The Night Watch'
The others are 'The Day Watch,' 'The Twilight Watch,' 'The last watch,' 'The New Watch' and 'The sixth watch'
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May 2020
2:02am, 23 May 2020
2,158 posts
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DazTheSlug
I might include a few authors that moved country in the middle of their lives
e.g. dissidents, refugees, migrants etc whose writing can tell of the country they left behind or the immigrant experience in the new country
see if you can spot some such in my list which will come soon...
;o)
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