The 2018 Reading Challenge - #18 - A Book by two Authors

Hello bookworms :)

How are you all doing on this wonderful Wednesday?
I hope you all can enjoy the sun and the lovely warm weather lately or at least I hope you have such a lovely day ^^
The book I have for you today is for the category - A Book by two Authors and I have to say that it was hard at first to find a book for it...there are plenty of books with numerous authors but I took it quite literal and wanted one with two specifically ^^ So in the end I went for

Roseanna

by Maj Sjöwall&Per Wahlöö

Roseanna (1965) by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is the first novel in their detective series revolving around Martin Beck and his team.¹

Again a little summary from goodreads:

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"The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive--indeed, terrifying--sense of propriety."

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I´ll give it a 7 out of 10

I chose this book because I am quite obsessed with...well scandinavian everything but lately especially with literature from the north ;) I really thought about reading this in its original language but after all I am not fluent aaand...you know...it would take ages ^^
At first I thought I knew I would love this book and I actually had quite huge expecations after reading the introduction by Henning Mankell who loved it ;)
I liked the first few pages quite a lot but unfortunately that changed a bit pretty soon...
I often laugh a lot when this thought comes to my mind "This plot it told way to slowly and there are just to many details"... said by someone whose favoutite author is or was JRR Tolking for the majority of the reading life ;)
The story begins quite thrilling and intriguing...riveting like a good Crime Fiction should and than quite soon starts to get quite slowly...it does not stay this way of cause but you have to get through these pages. Of cause these pages tell a lot about the life and story of Martin Beck who is the main character in this plot and all those details are important if it comes to character development and to understanding why things happen the way they are :) All of that aside...still quite the downer and the put the book asider...that´s the main reason why this is not my new favourite book :)
In any other way I quite liked this book and I get why Mankell was so inspired by it...but so far...not sure if I am going to read any others of this series...what do you think?
How about you - are you easily bored by books with such slow passages?

For a little more inspiration and some alternatives ^^

(all summaries are from goodreads):

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .

The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace

The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was a man who died horribly -- with a dish of mushrooms at his side. His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill 30 people. Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species. A clue to the brilliant murderer, who had baffled the best minds in London, was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about, except the dead man's son.

The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.

Which book did you choose for this category?

Did you read Roseanna or any others from the series?

With lots of love

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