I´ve just read Val Mc Dermids 6thbook “Fever of the Bone” with Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. I have to admit that I first saw the TV-serie based on the books (Wire in the blood) A really good crime serie, one of my favourite actually, but the books are just as good, if not better. We get to [...]
March, 2010
19 March 2010 by linda
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be released in the U.S. today (March 19, 2010).
The direct translation of the Swedish title is “Men Who Hate Women” and violence against women is the main theme. The main characters are Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, an excellent hacker with questionable social skills. They work [...]
15 March 2010 by sara
The most talked about book i Sweden last year was The Hypnotist. The book was written by the pseudonym Lars Kepler and sent in to the publishing company in March 2009. Only a few months later it was in book stores, reached the bestselling lists and was sold to over 20 countries!!
A lot of people speculated on who the real [...]
12 March 2010 by linda
The award winning American TV drama House, M.D. features Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a medical “detective” solving the most difficult medical mysteries. He is an infectious disease specialist, and he heads a team of diagnosticians at a New Jersey hospital. Most patients come to House and his team as a last resort, when no [...]
11 March 2010 by linda
The Mystery Café in San Diego, CA, is an interactive murder mystery dinner theater where the dinner is served by the “suspects” while you solve the mystery. Or so I thought.
The dinner theater part was true, but there was not much of an interactive murder mystery. Sure, a cast member died towards the end of [...]
8 March 2010 by sara
When it comes to criminal pictures, the 1950´s are dominated by the great Alfred Hitchcock and his thrillers. During this decade Hitchcock made 11 pictures. All of them are worth seeing good but 2 of them are (according to me) extra memorable and are really movies you have to see before you die!
1. Vertigo 1958
John “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart) plays an ex-cop [...]
1 March 2010 by linda
Freelance journalist Konrad Jonsson returns to his hometown Tomelilla in Sweden for the first time since his teenage years when he finds out that his adoptive parents, Herman and Signe, have been murdered. Their son Klas and Konrad are the only heirs and become the main suspects. At the same time the little town is [...]
