Author Archive
By Peter on Feb 5, 2009 in Arnaldur Indridason, Crime Books, Excellent book, Icelandic writer, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
The Draining Lake, another great Scandinavian crime book, this time by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason, takes place partly in Iceland today, partly in East Germany during the 1960’s.
In the city of Leipzig in East Germany, a group of young, radical Icelanders have gone to study at the University there. We follow some of them, [...]
By Peter on Jan 30, 2009 in Excellent book, Fiction Books, Jeffrey Archer, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
In Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer tells the story of two men, one Polish, an illegitimate son of a gypsy, the other rich and privileged from a wealthy Boston banking family. Abel Rosnovski survives countless setbacks, emigrates to the US and builds a thriving hotel chain. William Kane [...]
By Peter on Jan 22, 2009 in Classical novel, Fiction Books, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Writer, World literature, book review | 0 Comments
Brand is the drama of absolute intransigence in support of the religious life as opposed to the hedonistic one. The motto of Brand, the main character, is “All or nothing”. He is a strong person, a very stubborn Norwegian, and he does not admit compromises nor expedients, but goes directly to his goal, over-riding [...]
By Peter on Jan 21, 2009 in Classical novel, Excellent book, Historical Fiction, Swedish writer, Vilhelm Moberg, World literature, book review | 0 Comments
The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) is an epic work of historical fiction. This beautifully written book of historical fiction was first published in the early nineteen fifties and met with rave reviews at the time.
The focus in The Emigrants is on the family, relatives, and friends of Karl Oscar Nilsson. Karl Oskar Nilsson grew up [...]
By Peter on Jan 11, 2009 in About authors, Crime Books, Excellent book, Jo Nesbo, The World of Books, bestseller | 0 Comments
New York Times today reviewed Nemesis, one of Jo Nesbo’s Inspector Harry Hole crime novels. The sexy, soulful Oslo homicide detective is getting to be increasingly popular both in Europe and in the US.
The review of Nemesis was very positive, but the reviewer thinks Nesbo may be a little too tidy in his writing:
Nesbo falls [...]
By Peter on Dec 27, 2008 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Helene Tursten, Swedish writer, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
A limbless, headless body washes up on Swedish shores. A dog on the beach discovers a rotting human torso inside a black refuse sack. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and the Göteborg Violent Crimes Unit are on the case. In The Torso, which is the sequel to Helene Tursten’s Detective Inspector Huss (in the [...]
By Peter on Dec 14, 2008 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Mari Jungstedt, Swedish crime book, Swedish writer, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
The Swedish TV journalist Mari Jungstedt has written a series of crime books where the action takes place at the beautiful and quiet Swedish island of Gotland, a place for which Jungstedt seems to hold a lot of love (see our reviews of Unseen and Unspoken). In this new interesting police procedural, The Inner Circle [...]
By Peter on Dec 12, 2008 in Daniel Silva, Excellent book, bestseller, book review, spy thriller | 0 Comments
Moscow Rules is Daniel Silva’s eighth novel of espionage and international intrigue. It is a spy thriller in the genre of the early John Lè Carre, which has all the old stuff about spycraft, a good international plot, and the various secret services – KGB, Mossad, CIA, MI6, and so on. In this book [...]
By Peter on Nov 29, 2008 in About authors, Excellent book, Swedish crime book, The World of Books, bestseller | 2 Comments
Henning Mankell, the Swedish international bestselling author, will now be featured on BBC. The grumpy, newly divorced, middle-aged and opera-loving detective Kurt Wallander will make his appearance on the box in England this weekend.
Inspector Kurt Wallander is being played by Kenneth Branagh in BBC1’s new Sunday-night crime drama Wallander. In this crime series both [...]
By Peter on Nov 21, 2008 in Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
A Most Wanted Man is le Carré’s 21st book. It represents a continuation of a shift in John le Carré’s writing that started after his Karla-series and became very visible in The Constant Gardener and continued in books like The Mission Song and Absolute Friends. The focus is less on the British Secret Service, [...]
