Swedish paperbacks

Author copies time! I always love getting editions from other countries to see how the book looks on shelves across the world.

This is the Swedish paperback edition of The Samaritan - titled Den Onde Samariten (The Evil Samaritan).

If you're in Sweden, it's on sale now. Glad läsning!

I just found a great review from Dast Magazine last year, when the hardback came out. I don't speak much (okay, any) Swedish, but it's always fun to get Google to translate it:

By Mason Cross
The Samarithan, 2015
Translated by Gabriel Setterborg
Modernista, 2018
ISBN 978-91-7781-179-4, 431 pages

It is really strange that such an exhausted plot as the hunt for a serial killer can become so infernal exciting. Another remark is that authors of this very American genre are a Scot from Glasgow who embraced the really hard-boiled style that for seven, eight decades was introduced by Frank Morrison "Mickey" Spillane, among others. You are drawn very quickly into the evil Samaritan, Cross other thriller after last year's A long track of blood that introduced the human hunter Carter Blake.

The title comes from the fact that the serial killer got the nickname Samariten by offering help to women who got a motor stop, but instead of assisting he tortures his victims before cutting his neck with a saw-toothed knife. In the United States, such crimes have become a frightening reality along long and solitary routes of highway and according to the police, they are difficult to solve.

When a landslide exposes the bodies to three victims in the mountains near Santa Monica, the Los Angeles police investigator Jessica Allen is summoned, and this is not the first time she has seen anything like it - though on the other side of the continent. No traces, small chances of finding an offender.

A little hope is raised when Carter Blake arrives and offers his services, but initially suspicion is apparent. Blake's profile is too good for what they found out about the killer. But it turns out that the helper is a veritable track dog with a slightly scary ability to figure out the next Samarit's trait. And such comes when the killer raises his job to new, frightening levels. It is unpleasant but so exciting and temples that you do not want to stop reading, both about the hunt itself and about the protagonist's past that is about to set it up for him.

Mason Cross was born in 1979 in Glasgow, where he still lives with wife and three children. His previous book was nominated for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. One doesn't need a load A long track of blood to keep the evil Samaritan . The books are independent of each other but if you want to know Carter Blake better (I think one wants it) it doesn't hurt to read the debut - and the following. Because there will be more.

LEIF PETER JONSSON

Den Onde Samariten - Swedish edition

The Swedish edition of The Samaritan is going to be published by Modernista as Den Onde Samariten (The Evil Samaritan) next April. 

Really looking forward to seeing this one, as the Modernista hardback of Killing Season was one of my absolute favourite foreign editions.

If you're in Sweden, you can preorder a copy from Bokus or Adlibris. Tack för att du läser!

Ett Långt Spår Av Blod (The Killing Season - Sweden)

I love seeing translated versions of my books and this Swedish edition of The Killing Season (or A Long Trail of Blood) from Modernista is a particularly beautiful hardback edition.

If you're in Sweden, you can pick up a copy when it's published on 22 April.

Trevlig läsning! 

O Samaritano

O Samaritano is available now!

This is the Portuguese translation of The Samaritan, published by Editora 20/20's imprint Topseller. I loved their Killing Season cover (scroll down to see it) and this one is just as good.

As always, the blurb is below, followed by Google's stab at translating into English. Portuguese readers can buy a copy here.


Sobre a obra:

Após uma noite de tempestade, em Los Angeles, a detetive Jessica Allen é chamada ao local onde houve um deslizamento de terras. O motivo? Uma descoberta macabra: foi encontrado o corpo de uma jovem cujo pescoço foi degolado com um corte invulgar. No mesmo dia, são descobertos perto daquele local outros dois corpos mutilados de maneira semelhante. A detetive descobre que se trata da obra de um assassino que opera há mais de dez anos, sem nunca ter sido apanhado. É conhecido como o «Samaritano » e captura jovens desamparadas, cujos carros avariaram, deixando-as paradas e sozinhas na estrada. É então que Carter Blake aparece para oferecer os seus serviços a esta investigação policial. O secretismo em volta das suas verdadeiras intenções leva a detetive a desconfiar dele. Mas quando o Samaritano prossegue com uma escalada de assassínios, os dois terão de se unir para o deter de uma vez por todas…

Sobre autor:

Nasceu em Glasgow, na Escócia, em 1979.
Licenciou-se em Línguas e fez uma pós-graduação em Tecnologias de Informação, o que lhe permitiu descobrir que tem muito mais êxito com as palavras do que com os computadores.
O Caçador é o seu romance de estreia, da série Carter Blake. O 2.º volume, O Samaritano – que a Topseller também publicará –, foi selecionado para o Richard and Judy Book Club, um selo de qualidade.

***

About the work:

After a stormy night in Los Angeles, Detective Jessica Allen is called to where there was a landslide. The reason? A gruesome discovery: the body of a young man was found whose neck was beheaded with an unusual cut. On the same day, they are discovered near that place two mutilated bodies in a similar way. The detective discovers that it is the work of a killer who has been operating for over ten years, without ever being caught. It is known as the "Samaritan" and capture disadvantaged young people, whose cars avariaram, leaving the charts and on the road alone. It is then that Carter Blake appears to offer its services to this police investigation. Secrecy around their true intentions leads the detective to distrust him. But when the Samaritan continues with a murder climbing, the two must come together to stop him once and for all ...

About the author:

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1979. He graduated in Languages ​​and has a graduate degree in Information Technology, which allowed him to find that you have much more success with words than with computers.  The Hunter is his debut novel, Carter Blake series. The 2nd volume, The Samaritan - that Topseller also publish - was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, a seal of quality.

O Cacador (The Killing Season) is also available.

De Samaritaan - Dutch edition

De Samaritaan is out in the Netherlands today from Luithingh-Sijthoff - go here to buy! For editions in other languages, check out my website.

Blurb as follows in Dutch, Google translate effort below that:

De samaritaan    - Mason Cross 

De samaritaan van Mason Cross is het tweede boek over manhunter Carter Blake. Voor de lezers van Lee Childs serie over Jack Reacher.

Een sadistische seriemoordenaar aast op alleen reizende vrouwen met autopech. De pers heeft hem al 'de Samaritaan' gedoopt, maar zonder aanwijzingen en sporen komt het politieonderzoek al snel tot stilstand.

Dan komt Carter Blake in beeld, die de donkere gave heeft om de volgende stappen van de Samaritaan te voorspellen. FBI-agent Jessica Allen en haar collega's zijn echter achterdochtig, want hun nieuwe bondgenoot heeft verdacht veel overeenkomsten met de man die ze zoeken...

'Tot de verbeelding sprekende personages, spannend plot, strakke stijl en flink tempo. Wat wil een mens nog meer?' Vrij Nederland Detective en Thrillergids

'Een bloedspannende thriller vol spanning, avontuur, corruptie, complotten en een vleugje romantiek.' De Telegraaf

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The Mason Cross Samaritan is the second book about Manhunter Carter Blake.  For readers of Lee Childs series about Jack Reacher.

A sadistic serial killer preys on women traveling alone with car trouble.  The press him 'Samaritan' baptized, but without evidence and traces is the police investigation quickly to a halt.

Dan Carter Blake comes into the picture, which has the dark ability to predict the next steps of the Samaritan.  FBI agent Jessica Allen and her colleagues, however, are suspicious, because their new ally has suspicious similarities with the man they are looking for ...

"Until imaginative characters, exciting plot, sleek style and fast pace.  What does a man want more?"  Quite Netherlands Detective and Thriller Guide

"A very exciting thriller full of suspense, adventure, corruption, collusion and a touch of romance."  The Telegraph

Una Fuga Sospetta - foreign editions galore

The Killing Season has just been published in Italy by Fanucci under the title Una Fuga Sospetta (A Fleeing Suspect), which is the sixth language it's been translated into. If you speak Italian, you can buy it here.

Now that a few of the foreign language editions have come out, I thought it would be fun to look at how the cover and title changes in different territories. You can find buy links for all of these on the new foreign editions page on my website.
 

Der Rushhour Killer (The Rush Hour Killer) - Goldmann, Germany

Het Jach Seizoen (The Hunting Season) - Luitingh Sijthoff, Holland

Av Mevsimi (Hunting Season) - Panama, Turkey

Sezona Umorov (Season Murders) - Ucila, Slovenia

Сезонът на убийствата (Season Killings) - Obsidian, Bulgaria

And finally - not a foreign language, but just for the sake of completeness, here's the slightly different American cover:



Pegasus, USA

It's really cool to see how the book is adapted to different languages and markets, and I can't wait to see some more soon. If they're half as good as the cover for the forthcoming German publication of The Samaritan (or Blood Instinct - awesome title), I'll be a very happy international author indeed.

Killing Season - Turkish edition

I've been fairly impressed with the quality of my foreign edition covers so far, but this new Turkish edition is a strong contender for best of the bunch...

Love it.

Av Mevsimi (The Hunting Season) is out now from Panama. If you read Turkish (or are handy with Google Translate), there's a nice review here.

I suspect Turkish may not be Google Translate's strong point, if only because it's given Caleb Wardell the terrifying new moniker 'The Chicago Typewriter'.

The Dutch edition

I'm delighted that The Killing Season is published in the Netherlands today by Luitingh-Sijthoff, translated as Het Jachtseizoen (The Hunting Season).

Looks like I'm in good company; they also publish Stephen King, Dan Brown, Patricia Cornwell, Lee Child, George RR Martin, Jill Mansell and Danielle Steel.

Here's the blurb in Dutch, followed by an English translation. I always love the bizarre literal translations Google Translate throws up, and this one doesn't disappoint - I'm quite fond of the description 'blood exciting', but I love the fact that it's a strong, addictive new series - sounds like really good coffee, or a new type of heroin...

Het jachtseizoen    - Mason Cross 

Voor de liefhebbers van Lee Child: eerste deel van een ijzersterke, verslavende nieuwe serie

Het jachtseizoen is het eerste deel van de bloedspannende Carter Blake-serie van Mason Cross. Lee Child, bekend van de Jack Reacher-serie, noemt het 'mijn soort boek': spanning, avontuur, corruptie, complotten en een vleugje romantiek.

Het jachtseizoen is geopend: een ontsnapte, ter dood veroordeelde seriemoordenaar trekt een spoor van dood en verderf door de VS en een onconventionele FBI-huurling is de enige die hem nog kan stoppen. Hij krijgt daarbij hulp van een ambitieuze FBI-agente die worstelt om haar bestaan als alleenstaande moeder en carrièrevrouw met elkaar te verenigen. Samen leggen ze een web van leugens en corruptie bloot dat het hele land op zijn grondvesten kan doen schudden.

'Mason Cross legt een scherpe felheid in deze debuutthriller die leidt tot de komst van een van de interessantste helden uit de afgelopen jaren... Snel en krachtig verteld door een schrijver die een natuurlijke aanleg voor thrillers lijkt te hebben: het is niet te missen.' - Daily Mail

'Bloedstollend. Mason Cross combineert behendig een door adrenaline gedreven plot met een van de beste nieuwe seriepersonages sinds Jack Reacher. Bereid je voor om de hele nacht te lezen.' - Lisa Gardner

€ 16,99 Paperback / softback
 

The Hunting Season - Mason Cross

For fans of Lee Child: first part of a strong, addictive new series

The hunting season is the first part of the blood exciting Carter Blake series of Mason Cross.  Lee Child, known for the Jack Reacher series, calls it "my kind of book: excitement, adventure, corruption, collusion and a touch of romance.

The hunting season is open: an escaped serial killer sentenced to death draws a trail of death and destruction by the US and an unconventional FBI mercenary is the only one who can stop him.  He is assisted by an ambitious FBI agent who struggles to reconcile her life as a single mother and career woman together.  Together they uncover a web of lies and corruption that the entire country to its foundations to shake.

"Mason Cross puts a sharp fierceness in this debut thriller that leads to the arrival of one of the most interesting heroes of the past few years ... Quickly and powerfully told by a writer who seems to have a natural talent for thrillers: it is not to be missed." - Daily Mail

"Blood-curdling.  Mason Cross deftly combines an adrenaline-driven plot with one of the best new series of characters since Jack Reacher.  Prepare to read the whole night." - Lisa Gardner

German publication day

The Killing Season, excellently renamed Der Rushhour-Killer is published in Germany today by Goldmann, translated by Helmut Splinter.


I don't speak much German, but it's a country I've always wanted to visit. Maybe I'll get the chance if I pick up some readers in what I'm told is one of the biggest European thriller markets.

You can buy from Amazon.de here - ich hoffe, es gefällt euch! 

Killing Season... Bulgarian style

The Killing Season makes its first foreign-language appearance this Thursday in Bulgaria, locally titled Сезонът на убийствата, which (according to Google, at least), translates as Season Murders.

I also think my name looks much cooler in Bulgarian.

You can order the book from the website of Obsidian, who are my publisher over there. In the meantime, if any Bulgarians are reading this, Надявам се, че като него!