Spiked has a thoughtful piece on Stieg Larsson, Sweden, and why Swedish crime fiction has so much to say about things going wrong: …Through the prism of violence, misogyny, murder, perversion an… more →
Scandinavian Crime FictionBarbara wrote 1 month ago: Spiked has a thoughtful piece on Stieg Larsson, Sweden, and why Swedish crime fiction has so much to … more →
Barbara wrote 1 month ago: Still catching up . . . Marilyn Stasio reviews Box 21 by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom and find … more →
Barbara wrote 4 months ago: Martin Edwards has a lovely quote from Hakan Nesser on the essence of crime fiction, at his blog, Do … more →
Barbara wrote 5 months ago: Slate has an article by Nathanial Rich titled “Scandinavian Crime Wave: Why the Most Peaceful … more →
Barbara wrote 5 months ago: Peter rounds up recent news about Scandinavian crime fiction from Scandinavian sources, including th … more →
profmike wrote 5 months ago: The Redeemer is the latest novel from Norwegian crime fiction writer Jo Nesbo featuring Oslo detecti … more →
Barbara wrote 5 months ago: Peter beat me to reviewing a new English translation of Jarkko Sipila’s Against the Wall, just … more →
Barbara wrote 5 months ago: I know I rely entirely too much on the FriendFeed Crime and Mystery Fiction room for the tidbits I h … more →
Barbara wrote 6 months ago: Glenn Harper finds life imitating art when a news story (scroll to the bottom) highlights those who … more →
Trisha wrote 7 months ago: Here’s a not-so-brief summary of how I discovered today’s Waiting on Wednesday book: I r … more →
Barbara wrote 8 months ago: Uriah (aka Norm) reviews Jo Nesbo’s Redeemer – “absolutely superb crime fiction … more →
Barbara wrote 9 months ago: Marcel Berlins says good things about Jo Nesbo’s The Redeemer in The Times. “The Norwegi … more →
romdjoll wrote 10 months ago: Er, from the to-be-read pile, that is.They have now migrated to the “have been read, but have … more →
romdjoll wrote 11 months ago: Okay, seeing as it’s the last day of the year, I decided to have some fun thinking about all t … more →
Barbara wrote 1 year ago: The UK is revelling in Wallander, thanks to the BBC version of the series launching with Sideswiped. … more →
Barbara wrote 1 year ago: Profmike reads Jo Nesbo’s Nemesis and pronounces it well worth the read. “What Jo Nesbo … more →
profmike wrote 1 year ago: It seems odd nowadays to think of Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse as having broken the mould of … more →
Barbara wrote 1 year ago: I’ve signed up for a mysterious little Internets-thingy called FriendFeed that makes RSS feed … more →
Barbara wrote 1 year ago: If you haven’t read Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series, what on earth are you waiting for? You … more →