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Category: Crime BooksBy 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 [...]
By Peter on Mar 31, 2009 in About authors, Crime Books, Jo Nesbo, bestseller | 0 Comments
The Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail recently reviewed The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo. They view this book as probably Nesbo’s best, and possibly also one of the best crime books of 2009! Very nice for Jo Nesbo. Here is the review:
THE REDEEMER
By Jo Nesbo, translated by Don Bartlett, Random House Canada, 457 pages, $27.95
The [...]
By Peter on Mar 21, 2009 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Hakan Nesser, Swedish crime book, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Mind’s Eye is actually the first of the books Hakan Nesser wrote in the Inspector Van Veeteren series. Finally it is available in English. Thus, for readers loving this series from one of Europe’s best-selling crime writers, it becomes possible to go back to the start of it.
Murder cases were never [...]
By Peter on Mar 10, 2009 in Crime Books, Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, Jeffrey Archer, The World of Books, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Jeffrey Archer, the somewhat controversial British master storyteller, whose novels and short stories have topped the bestseller lists around the world, and with sales of more than 135 million copies, has just published a new novel. This one, Paths of Glory, is different from other books Archer has written – it is a novel based [...]
By Peter on Feb 23, 2009 in Excellent book, Liza Marklund, Swedish writer, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
With more than half a million copies sold, The Bomber was the most successful book ever published in Sweden (before Stieg Larsson, that is). Liza Marklund’s extraordinary book, has a bone-chilling plot and introduces an irresistible heroine, the journalist Annika Bengtzon.
The Bomber gives a terrific behind-the-scenes view of the Swedish tabloid business as [...]
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