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Category: Swedish writerBy 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 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 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 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 Feb 18, 2008 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Hakan Nesser, Swedish crime book, Swedish writer, book review | 0 Comments
Hakan (Håkan) Nesser is another of the brilliant Swede crime writers who have been translated into English recently. He is a skilled writer, with well developed plots in his books, and has written a series of books about Inspector Van Veeteren. As you will see when you read The Return, Van Veeteren is a likable, [...]
By Peter on Jan 16, 2008 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Stieg Larsson, Swedish crime book, Swedish writer, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 3 Comments
Book review of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first book in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo features Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, Stieg Larsson’s key characters.
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