This Night’s Foul Work, by Fred Vargas

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 [...]

Death at La Fenice, by Donna Leon

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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Fourth book by Stieg Larsson will not be published

The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet today published an article that stated that the manuscript for Stieg Larsson’s fourth and unfinished book will neither be completed nor finished.
The family confirms that there exist a draft for a fourth book. Approximately 200 pages have been written. However, Stieg Larsson’s familily strongly feels that it would be inappropriate to [...]

The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery, by Hakan Nesser

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, [...]

The Ice Princess, by Camilla Lackberg

(Forthcoming, April 2008 - review based on the Swedish edition.) Camilla Lackberg (Läckberg in Swedish) is a young (born 1974), very talented writer. She was voted Swedish Writer of the Year for 2005. Her books have so far sold 1.5 million copies. She is another of the many talented Swedish crime writers.
The Ice Princess takes [...]

The Redbreast, by Jo Nesbo

The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo won the Glass Key prize for the best Nordic crime novel when it was first published, and was subsequently voted Norway’s best crime novel. Jo Nesbo ( Nesbø in Norwegian) is a young, wonderfully gifted storyteller that increasingly is being noticed among crime book readers in the US and UK. [...]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first book in a trilogy written by Stieg Larsson, often referred to as the Millennium trilogy (see also our book review of The Girl Who Played With Fire at ScandinavianBooks.. The books in this trilogy have sold extremely well in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and been [...]

Top Ten Crime Books of 2007

The following list is from EuroCrime - a nice blog on European Crime fiction, as well as TV and film:

Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri
The Scent of the Night - Andrea Camilleri
The Serbian Dane - Leif Davidsen
The Princess of Burundi - Kjell Eriksson
Calling Out for You! - Karin Fossum
The Chinaman - Friedrich Glauser
The Exception - [...]