I´ve always been a fan of Agatha Christie and I´ve probably read most (if not all) of her crime-novels. Laura Thompsons biography Agatha Christie – An English mystery from 2007  is the latest Agatha Christie biography.
I was very curios to see what the author could reveal about Christies mystery from 1926 when Christie dissappeared for 11 days. She was found [...]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is being made into a play in Denmark. Stieg Larsson’s long time girlfriend/life partner (they were together for 32 years*, but never married), Eva Gabrielsson, is involved in the project. The play is expected to open in December 2010.
Source: DN.se (Swedish newspaper)

Monk is one of my absolute favorite TV series. The eight and final season started in the United States recently, and I am eager to see if Monk will solve the crime of his lifetime – the murder of his beloved wife Trudy. Only time will tell. If you have missed the series until now [...]

I´ve just read the novel Nefilim by the Swedish author Åsa Schwarz.
Nova Barakel, a Greenpeace activist, breaks in to the President of the biggest power company (Vattenfall) in Sweden to spray the apartment with words like murderer and blood money. In the apartment she discovers the man, together with his wife and dog, dead in a brutal and [...]

Fyrvaktaren (direct translation: The Lighthouse Keeper, official English title is not yet available) is an entertaining book, there is no question about it .
As always, Läckberg is mixing a storyline from the past with a few from the present. This time the storyline from the past takes place on a small, isolated island not far [...]

Here are some tips of my favourite criminal pictures. I´ll start with the 1940s

1. The Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and
Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. I know a lot of people love Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the movies from the 80s but for me Rathbone and Bruce are and will [...]

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Karin Slaughter, welcome to this interview for Deckarhuset/TheCrimeHouse !
You write unusually violent and bloody stories, why?
I don’t think of them as unusually violent or bloody.  My main focus as a writer is to use violence as a means of talking about greater issues affecting society such as domestic violence, child abuse and rape.  I write [...]

Stieg Trenter, from 1947. My first contact with Trenter, and a lovely meeting it was – the language is rich and colourful in a way quite different from most of the recent Swedish crime novels I’ve read (I read the book in Swedish so I can’t really say anything about the English translation, though).
Most of [...]

Holt is a Norwegian lawyer and writer who was actually minister of justice for a while. I think I read Blind Gudinna (no English translation available, I think? Blind Goddess, literally translated, Blind Gudinne in Norwegian) many years ago, but I can’t remember anything about it more than that I liked it. Therefore I didn’t [...]