I made the mistake of reading Viveca Sten’s criminal novels in the wrong order and I started with the third novel ”Basically without Guilt.” I recently read “In the Calmest Waters” and “In the Inner Circle.” All the novels are part of the series mainly set at Sandhamn in Stockholm’s archipelago. Detective Thomas and his [...]

Two Swedish criminal writers currently top the New York Best Seller List for Hardcover Fiction. The Postcard Killers, a collaboration between James Patterson and Swedish Liza Marklund, claim the top spot. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson was moved down to the second spot.
On the Paperback Fiction List (both Trade and Mass-Market) Stieg [...]

Mi reviewed “Själakistan” in July and I agree with her – what a fantastic novel!
Kalmar Castle is mentioned in the novel, which I really enjoy, since I, like the main character Karin Adler, love to imagine what the past was like and wonder what people have  touched the same things as you but a long long [...]

We welcome the Swedish author Åsa Schwarz to TheCrimeHouse and this interview !
Can you tell us shortly what kind of crime novels you write? (Her latest novel is Nefilim – read our review of it here!)
I would say it is a thriller where current realities is mixed with history and religion. A simple way to describe them is that [...]

A woman is murdered in a park behind the police headquarters at Kungsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden. As always, Hake becomes responsible for the investigation and this time he not only battles with his boss but also a policewoman from another district. The investigation becomes even more difficult when it turns out that a female judge from [...]

We at the CrimeHouse welcome the Danish crime author Michael Katz Krefeld to this interview. Krefelds second book, Pan´s Secret, about the doctor Maja Holm was just released in Sweden Read our review of Pan´s Secret here!
 
Michael, Can you give our readers some information about, age, where you live, where you are from etc.
I am 44 years [...]

Pan´s Secret is the second novel in the series about the Danish doctor Maja Holm. The first book is called Before the Storm. 
In this book Maja and her partner have moved back to the idyllic suburb in Denmark where Maja Grew up. It turns out it´s not so idyllic any more… Someone kidnaps children, kills them and [...]

In Sweden we only have a few Professors in Criminology and one of them is Leif GW Persson.
Persson has worked as a consultant for the police and state for many years. He is  a big TV-personality and has among other things been an expert on the TV-show Efterlyst (Crime Watch) for many years. He is loved by [...]

I´ve found a new Italian Crime writer in Giorgio Faletti. I read his I kill from 2002 and was pleasantly surprised.
The book is set in the luxurious Monaco. One night a very popular radio show gets a disturbing phone call while broadcasting live. The person ends with the words “I kill…” The next day a famous Formel [...]

The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall is both charmig and rather amusing, but nevertheless I find it too much of a copy of The no 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
The story takes place in India today, and the very friendly Mr Vish Puri s the most discrete private investigator in India. His [...]