Camilla Läckberg
"With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one’s death looks better and better."
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…
Graphic Novel “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” To Be Released in November 2012
If you like Stieg Larsson and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, then you’ve probably read the books, . have seen the the Swedish movies, and have the seen the…
Scandinavian Thriller: The Celtic Ring By Björn Larsson
Björn Larsson was born in central Sweden in 1953, and went to school in the city of Jönköping, but he actually lives with his wife (a marine biologist) in a…
Swedish Crime: “Red Wolf” By Lisa Marklund
Lisa Marklund, The Queen of Scandinavian Crime as Henning Mankell puts it, is the Swedish journalist and creator of a very popular series featuring the fictional character Annika Bengtzon, a…
Classic Swedish Crime: Blackwater By Kerstin Ekman
Now it's time for a classic from an extremely notable author from Sweden: Kerstin Ekman, the Swedish crime novelist and the author of a string of successful novels ranging from detective…
Crime Fiction From Finland – Helsinki Homicide: Against The Wall
Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall, is the winner of the 2009 Finnish Crime Novel of the Year Award, and is the first of Jarkko Sipila's nine Takamäki-novels to be translated into…
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