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Last Christmas I read Murder as a Christmas Gift (Mord i julklapp), a collection of criminal short stories, and this year I read Murder under the Christmas Tree (Mord under julgranen). I am not very fond of short stories but decided to give the format another chance. However, despite the impressive list of authors, I think the [...]

I´ve just read Nicola Upsons´s criminal novel “An Expert in Murder”. The story takes place in the 1930´s London. The famous playwriter Josephine Tey is going down to London by train and starts chatting with a young women. Soon after the woman is murdered and it seems that the murder has something to do with the latest [...]

In the beginning of the movie the serial killer Lord Blackwood is caught thanks to the classic duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Lord Blackwood is sentenced to death, but he uses black magic to rise from the dead and Holmes’s logic and power of deduction is put to the test. Holmes and Watson try [...]

Several murders happen in a short time and when the police find out that the victims are all the same age and have ties to the same place they realize that they are dealing with a serial killer. You find out fairly early that it is a bullied child that has become an adult serial [...]

Yesterday it came… the  Review Copy of James Patterson´s and Liza Marklund´s new book the Postcard Killers! This is a new collaboration and I´m really curious on how it will work when one of the  biggest crime/thriller writers in USA and one of Swedens biggest crime/thriller writers work together. My expectations are very high!
The book  will be [...]

It is difficult to translate the Swedish title Änglalik since it has multiple meanings. It means angelic but also angel’s corpse. A very fitting title as the reader will learn. (I do not know if or when the novel will be available in English.)
The main character Althea Molin is a licensed psychologist and criminal profiler. [...]

The Last Oracle is the fifth thriller in the Sigma Force series by James Rollins. All his novels are filled with non-stop action and exotic places. The Last Oracle is no exception. From Washington DC to ancient Greek temples and from ruins in India to the toxic site of Chernobyl the Sigma Force battles a [...]

Two weeks ago the third and last movie in Stieg Larssons Millenium trilogy hit the cinemas in Sweden. I´m a big fan of Stieg Larssons books about Lisbeth Salander and I loved the first movie. The second movie was ok but not more. I feared that this movie might be less then ok but as it [...]

We are delighted to welcome David S. Brody to TheCrimeHouse. Mr. Brody resides in Westford, Massachusetts with his family. His novels include Unlawful Deeds, Blood of the Tribe, The Wrong Abraham, and Cabal of the Westford Knight.
Did you believe in the Westford Knight legend prior to writing the Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templars at [...]