January, 2010

29 January 2010 by linda

I have never been to a mystery convention, but maybe I will take this opportunity. Unfortunately the Forensic Science Day has already sold out, otherwise I think that could have been really interesting.
Left Coast Crime is an annual mystery convention sponsored by mystery fans, for mystery fans. The 20th Left Coast Crime Mystery Convention will be [...]

25 January 2010 by sara

This is a real page turner and sensation thriller. Someone kills newlyweds around Europe and sends a postcard with the murdered victims on them to journalists in the town where the murder takes place.
It´s not hard to figure out that Liza Marklund has created the character Dessie. Just as Annika Bengtzon, the head character in Lizas crime novels, [...]

24 January 2010 by linda

The unemployed journalist Maria Allende and her family move into a house in the outskirts of Stockholm. When Maria finds blood in the kitchen she decides to find out more about the couple that lived in the house before them. She discovers that the husband is in prison because he allegedly killed his wife. Before [...]

20 January 2010 by linda

I stumbled on the free online game Fictional Detectives Trivia:
“Elementary, my dear Watson!”
…or is it? Mysteries in books, films, and television have beguiled us for our entire lives, and behind every mystery is a detective who will get to the bottom of it! We’ve put together a mystery of our own for you; call it [...]

18 January 2010 by sara

I´ve just read Deon Meyers “Dead at Daybreak” Deon Meyer is an South African Crime Writer. The style is Suspense/Hardboiled.
Zapotek van Heerden is an ex cop who is in really bad shape and now supports himself as a Private Detective. It´s obvius that something in the past made him a drunk and a very cynical man but exactly what made him [...]

14 January 2010 by linda

Christine Haldeman-Spegel is found brutally murdered in her apartment at Östermalm in Stockholm and at first she seems like a typical upper-class girl. Axel Hake is responsible of the murder investigation and tries to find out who she really was and what secrets her family may have been hiding.
Östermalmsmorden is the first part in Lars [...]

13 January 2010 by sara

I´ve just read Tana French second novel, about Cassie Maddox, who is  just being released in Swedish. (Her first novel was “In the Woods”)
Cassie Maddox, a former police infiltrator, works at the domestic violence department when she gets a call from a colleague to come and see a murder victim. It turns out that the victim (Lexie) looks exactly [...]

11 January 2010 by mi

How was the “author” in you born?
I’ve always wanted to write, pretty much as soon as I could pick up a pen. I have no idea why. It was just instinctive, I suppose, and the urge is as strong today as it ever was.
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You write seriously ugly stories, why?

I wouldn’t call them ugly. [...]

9 January 2010 by linda

A parent’s worst nightmare is that your child will disappear, and that is exactly what happens in the beginning of the book. A mother is left at Flemingsberg’s station and her daughter disappears without a trace as the train arrives to the station in Stockholm.
More children disappear, battered women appear and it is not until the [...]

8 January 2010 by thecrimehouse

Today we are proud to introduce a mobile phone friendly version of our site – TheCrimeHouse Mobile!
Best thing of all, you don’t need to memorize another address. If you surf to our site, from let say an iPhone, you will be taken directly to the mobile version. If you rather want to look at the [...]