Camilla Läckberg
"With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one’s death looks better and better."
Scandinavian Crime: “The Viper” By Håkan Östlundh
Håkan Östlundh is well on his way to becoming one of the new superstars of Scandinavian crime fiction. Having lived as a journalist for a national newspaper in Stockholm, The…
“Invisible Murder” By Lene Kaaberbøl And Agnete Friis
Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis are the Danish duo behind the Nina Borg series. Friis is a journalist by training, while Kaaberbøl has been a professional writer since the age…
Historic Estonian Crime Novel To Be Turned Into Movie
Film production company Exitfilm is currently working on turning Estonia's first gothic crime fiction "Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St. Olaf's Church" into a full feature film. According to…
Crime Novels By Norwegian Author Anne Holt In Series Development
After the success of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, another series of Scandinavian crime novels is going to appear on TV; but this time from Norway… Anne Holt’s eight-novel Hanne Wilhelmsen…
Helsinki Homicide: Nothing but the Truth By Jarkko Sipila
Helsinki Homicide: Nothing but the Truth is the third novel we recently reviewed from a popular Finnish series by Jarkko Sipila centered around Lieutenant Takamäki and his team in Helsinki…
Danish Crime: “Call Me Princess” By Sara Blaedel
Sara Blaedel worked as a newspaper journalist and television producer before founding the first dedicated crime fiction publishing house in Danish history. This inspired her to start writing her own…
Finnish Crime: “Raid And The Blackest Sheep” By Harri Nykanen
Harri Nykanen, is a Finnish author who has written nearly 30 books and is best known for his Raid series. While Nykanen's work has been translated into many languages, Raid and…
Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance By Jarkko Sipila
Helsinki Homicide: Vengeance is the second novel we recently reviewed from a popular Finnish series by Jarkko Sipila centered around Lieutenant Takamäki and his team in Helsinki Police workforce. Jarkko Sipila,…
Finnish Mystery: “The Priest Of Evil” By Matti Joensuu
Matti Yrjänä Joensuu (1948-2011) was a Finnish writer of crime fiction. He has been awarded the State's Literature Prize (1982), Vuoden johtolanka prize (1985, 1994, 2004), and he has received…
A Taste Of Iceland: “The Flatey Enigma” By Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson
Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson is one of Iceland’s most accomplished crime fiction authors. His novel House of Evidence was nominated for the Glass Key—the Nordic Crime Novel Award—in 2001 and The…
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