Reviews 

There are good books to read in the run up to 31 January, fast-paced detective stories. Like no.1044, this is quite Freudian, featuring...

This is the first of his books that I ever read and it is very good – prompted me to buy lots more a few years ago. Beautifully written...

Quite enjoyed this, but insubstantial. Tova, an elderly Swedish widow, works as cleaner in an aquarium and develops a relationship with...

Best novel I have read for a while. Beautifully constructed and written. The plot covers a 35 year period from the mid 1970’s to the...

A Skandi–noir novel, I guess. Well plotted especially toward the end, but I found the central characters totalling un-interesting. Hanna,...

Mankell’s last book, completed I think not long before he died. Unsurprisingly, quite a gloomy book, about an elderly retired doctor...

This is a lovely book, totally different and beautifully constructed. A lonely young Swedish woman arrives in the run down Iowa town of...

I didn’t like this much; P read it alternating between tears and hysterical laughter, but it did nothing for me. About a grumpy old and...

Another very short book, a Wallander novella, previously unpublished in the UK. Poor old Kurt looks at a house to buy but finds a couple...

Needed a proper novel, with a plot, after no.241. This has a great plot with apparently quite unrelated deaths (one not a murder) linked...

Maybe it is an unfortunate coincidence, but this is just too similar to 'Borkmann’s Point'. Again a killer on an apparently random...

The last of the Nesser’s that I had taken on holiday. This one features Van Veetern pre-retirement, although called from holiday to...

Brilliant. Nesser is really good. This story features Eva Moreno, his only female detective, a sexier version of Siobhan Clarke in Rebus,...

Inauspicious start, but then read en route to Spain in overnight hotel, then delayed in Gatwick, half asleep on plane and finished in...

This is the only thing I lost in the crash – a writer I had never heard of before, but branded in some marketing quarters as ‘the...

Not a Wallander story. About an old man, living alone on an island/archipelago in the north of Sweden whose past life come back to haunt...

Have read this before but wanted to re-read it. It introduces Erlendur and explicates more of his family history than some of the other...

A strange Wallander book that begins with an apparent Swedish domestic and expands into an attempt by the African white supremacists to...

The first in a series, written by an English man (I assume) featuring a Swedish female detective. Basically a police procedural, leans...

You can see where this is going, in several senses. ('Meet me in M...,' 'Mayhem in M..), just need enough crime related nouns beginning...