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Category: Crime BooksBy 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 [...]
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 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 Nov 29, 2008 in About authors, Excellent book, Swedish crime book, The World of Books, bestseller | 1 Comment
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 Jul 6, 2008 in Commisaire Adamsberg, Crime Books, Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
This Night’s Foul Work is the fourth novel in the Adamsberg series translated into English. It is a playful, interesting and somewhat implausible crime books, but the writing is so great the implausible part doesn’t really matter much.
Two drug dealers have had their throats cut in the Paris flea market. Normally this would [...]
By Peter on Jun 26, 2008 in Crime Books, Donna Leon, book review | 0 Comments
La Fenice is the name of the famed opera house in Venice. The novel starts with the death of the well-known German conductor Helmut Wellauer. He is found dead in his dressing room after an intermission, shortly before he was to conduct La Traviata. Of course, the police are called.
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