Category Archives: Books

Verdict by Ulla Bolinder

A woman decides to go for a bike ride on a Friday evening. She never returns and the police start a search which soon turns into a crime investigation Access to the Same Information We get to follow the investigation … Continue reading

My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

I had intended to write a complete review of this novel, but now that I have read it I feel that it will be difficult. Is there no story? Yes, but it is difficult to identify it. Is there no … Continue reading

The Boy who Stopped Crying by Ninni Schulman

I liked Ninni Schulman’s first novel The Girl with Snow in Her Hair, and her independent sequel, The Boy who Stopped Crying, was even better. I definitely want to read more crime novels by Ninni Schulman, another fabulous Swedish crime … Continue reading

Invisible Murders by Kaaberbøl & Friis

The Danish author duo Kaaberbøl & Friis have done it again! Invisible Murders is the sequel to their first novel The Boy in the Suitcase, and it is just as terrifying and impossible to put down. The main character and … Continue reading

Nowhere under the Sky by Liselott Willén

The well-known politician Christian Weber is a proponent of a national DNA registry, and as an example of how it will work he voluntarily gives a sample of his saliva in a TV show. It turns out that his DNA … Continue reading

Twice is a Habit by Denise Rudberg

I read Stepping Out of Line approximately a year ago, and now the turn came to Denise Rudberg’s second novel in her elegant crime series about prosecution secretary Marianne Jidhoff. I really like that the main character is a middle … Continue reading

Murder in the 11th house

Murder in the 11th House … Is an astrological detective story written by an American author named Michelle Scott Lewis. The author is himself an astrologer and is said to have predicted a series of economic events as the crash … Continue reading

The day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

I’ve recently mentioned my weakness for the mysterious country of Iceland, in a book review I recently did in Swedish. But I really have special feelings for the place even though I’ve never been there.   My first encounter with … Continue reading

Liza Marklund’s Latest Novel

Du gamla, du fria (original title in Swedish) This is the ninth novel about the journalist Annika Bengtzon. In the first chapter Annika’s husband Thomas and six other Europeans are kidnapped by a terrorist group in Nairobi. In the second … Continue reading

The Eternal Fire of Alchemy* by Anna Jansson

The glass designer Justus Hartman disappears without a trace from the hospital. His nephew, the police Thomas Hartman, has not seen his uncle in forty years and does not know where he may have gone. The search begins and the … Continue reading