Norwegian by Night (Sheldon Horowitz #2) in Around the World in 80 Books

Jul 27, 2018 Pam rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-books-read, norway, crime-fiction

AUTHOR Miller, Derek B.
TITLE Norwegian by Night
DATE READ 07/27/2018
RATING 5/A
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Crime Fiction/2012/Houghton Mifflin/ 292 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #1Sigrid Odegard/police investigator
CHARACTERS Sheldon Horowitz/widowed 82 year old
TIME/PLACE Present/Norway
FIRST LINES It is summer and luminous.
COMMENTS Loved this one -- everything! Just going to include the book blurb " Sheldon Horowitz -- widowed, impatient, impertinent -- has grudgingly agreed to leave NY & move i ...more

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Jan 10, 2020 Julie Griffin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Sheldon Horowitz is one of greatest characters I've read recently. An 82-year old Korean War veteran, Sheldon has re-located to Oslo after the death of his wife, with the granddaughter he raised after the death of his son. Sheldon, grieving his wife and guilty over the death in Vietnam of his only child Saul, is seemingly losing his grip on reality. He is alone when he sees a woman fleeing a man upstairs in their building, and lets her in. He hides her son in the closet while she is murdered. Th ...more

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Mar 07, 2017 Andy Plonka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Although marketed as a mystery, this is really a literary novel with a host of wonderful characters put in situations that give them ample opportunity to show their depth. Sheldon is a real piece of work.

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Feb 04, 2016 Stephanie Zundel-Smith rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-in-2016

Just not my kind of book. I thought it was well written but no thank you.

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Dec 10, 2013 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: scandinavian, mystery

I picked this up on the strength of a favorable review in The Economist, and it doesn't disappoint - it picks up on many of the same things that guys like Henning Mankell have been chewing over but Miller lends his own twist to the proceedings. Still dark, but not quite as depressing. ...more

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Apr 14, 2017 Susan rated it really liked it

As one reviewer said, this book is both a literary novel and a thriller. And, something I would rarely say, a book I would have liked to be longer. Suspenseful, sad, humorous, thought-provoking, and some very profound observations of the world around us.

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