Category: Crime Books
By Peter on Jul 30, 2010 in About authors, Camilla Lackberg, Crime Books, Hakan Nesser, Jo Nesbo, Karin Fossum, Liza Marklund, Norwegian Writer, Stieg Larsson | 0 Comments
It is interesting to notice how tightly interrelated things are, and how developments internationally have domestic effects even in such areas as literature and, more specifically, crime fiction. Some years ago the traditionally industrious Swedes started to build an impressive crime fiction literature, with writers like Henning Mankell, Jan Guillou, Liza Marklund, Håkan Nesser, Åke [...]
By Peter on Jul 26, 2010 in Crime Books, Don Winslow, Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
Don Winslow
Don Winslow is an American author. He is most recognized for his crime and mystery novels. Many of his books are set in California. He has published a series of five novels that have a private investigator named Neal Carey as their main character.
Bibliography
1991: A Cool Breeze on the Underground
1992: The Trail to Buddha’s [...]
By Peter on Jun 8, 2010 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Karin Alvtegen, Swedish crime book, Swedish writer, book review | 1 Comment
Shadow is Karin Alvtegen’s fifth book, and a great Scandinavian crime fiction book. In my opinion it is her best so far. Shadow is more a psychological thriller novel than a crime or mystery book in the traditional sense. There is no detective, police or private, investing crimes in this book, even if there [...]
By Peter on Apr 4, 2010 in Excellent book, John Grisham, Short stories, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
John Grisham is a world renowned writer of legal thrillers. He is also a great writer – a great teller of stories. With Ford County he shows that he can also write excellent short stories. He returns to Ford County, the setting of his very first novel A Time to Kill (in my opinion [...]
By Peter on Mar 4, 2010 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Kerstin Ekman, Swedish writer, book review | 0 Comments
Swedish Kerstin Ekman is a very talented writer and, along with fellow Scandinavians Karin Alvtegen and Karin Fossum, a master of psychological thrillers. In her first novel published in the United States, Ekman, creates an aura of fear and malaise as she depicts a suspicious, isolated community shocked by a crime but unwilling to [...]
By Peter on Nov 6, 2009 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Helene Tursten, Swedish writer, book review | 2 Comments
Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys’ network, with the first families of Sweden. Suicide seems obvious, but some [...]
By Peter on Jun 6, 2009 in Crime Books, Henning Mankell, Swedish writer, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
Firewall was the sixth Kurt Wallander book to appear in English (the eight in Swedish). Again Mankell has written a crime novel that makes spending time with the glum police inspector from Ystad a thrilling experience.
Two seemingly random events start off the book: The first is the death of a computer expert in front [...]
By Peter on Jun 1, 2009 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Michael Connelly, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
The Overlook is the 13th Harry Bosch novel (after 2006’s Echo Park) by bestselling author Michael Connelly. Here Bosch, now belonging to the LAPD’s Homicide Special Squad, reunites with his former flame, FBI agent Rachel Walling – a lady he has apparently wanted to get back in touch with. As well, Bosch has a new [...]
By Peter on Apr 29, 2009 in Award winner, Classical novel, Crime Books, Excellent book, Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, The World of Books, Thomas Mann, World literature, book review | 0 Comments
Some works of art are almost logically impossible. Often literature and art capture and present phenomena in ways that contribute to their understanding. This most certainly is the case with the wonderful novel Buddenbrooks. If it is at all possible to convey 19th century German bourgeois atmosphere and culture in a single book, then [...]
By Peter on Apr 20, 2009 in Benjamin Black, Crime Books, Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Among the crime novels by Benjamin Black published so far, this is my personal favorite. It is as much fiction and literature as it is crime fiction – very lyrical, slow paced, with some wonderful conversations, great observations and outstanding story telling. It is actually written by Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville, writing [...]
