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Dec 5, 20211 min read
920. Max Seeck - The Ice Coven
A variant on Scandi noir, this is set in Helsinki, so Finnish noir, which lacks resonance. A quite good police procedural, with a very...
Sep 19, 20211 min read
896. Johanna Mo - The Night Singer
A Skandi–noir novel, I guess. Well plotted especially toward the end, but I found the central characters totalling un-interesting. Hanna,...
May 30, 20211 min read
863. Håkan Nesser - Intrigo
I have read a lot of the Inspector Van Veeteren books, but these were five stand alone novellas in which he doesn’t feature. Three have...
Jan 24, 20141 min read
179. David Hewson - The Killing
An adaptation of the TV series, a lot of which I had forgotten or missed. Very good, very long (700+ pages) but fast-paced. Although...
Jul 5, 20131 min read
125. Gunnar Staalesen - The Writing On The Wall
A bit of Scandinavian crime pushed in the UK heavily a couple of years ago following the Wallander boom. OK-ish as a story, middle-class...
May 16, 20131 min read
104. Torquil MacLeod - Meet Me In Malmö
The first in a series, written by an English man (I assume) featuring a Swedish female detective. Basically a police procedural, leans...
May 16, 20131 min read
105. Torquil McLeod - Murder In Malmö
You can see where this is going, in several senses. ('Meet me in M...,' 'Mayhem in M..), just need enough crime related nouns beginning...
Jun 4, 20121 min read
12. Jo Nesbo - The Leopard
Airplane reading en route for Spain. Not a lot shorter than George Eliot, except on quality. Nesbo seems to be billed as the next Steig...
May 5, 20121 min read
7. Stieg Larsson - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
I have read this before, but equally good 2nd time round. Fast-paced and with a brilliant plot. Does the Wennerstrom empire appear in the...