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 [...]

We get to follow two Swedish girls from the island of Gotland in the criminal novel The Dangerous Game.
Jenny was discovered by a modeling agency about a year ago and she is now one of the most successful women in the business. Agnes worked for the same agency but lost her contract due to an [...]

This is my first encounter with the author Jan Dybdahl. This means that I had no particular expectations of he work, which I often ( consciously or subconsciously) have when I pick up a book by an author I have read before.
This novel is about Viktor Amundsen, an old  Art Historian from Trondheim on the [...]

So, beautiful and interesting Marstrand, on the Swedish west coast is begining to catch up with Gotland on the east coast when it comes to horrible crimes and mysterious creatures.
The second crime novel by Ann Rosman makes a flying start. An unknown woman is found dead by the sacrifice stone . A body without its [...]

A happy family in North Carolina falls apart after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon is abducted. The father abandons the family. The mother turns to drugs and alcohol, and an abusive former boyfriend. Despite everything, Alyssa’s twin-brother Johnny never gives up hope and continues to search for her. So does Detective Hunt, who also keeps a watchful eye [...]

Peter James, welcome to The Crime House!
If you were to describe yourself in only three words, which would they be?
Curious about everything.
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From film producer to crime author – how did that happen?

I have alternated throughout my career to date between writing and producing film and television and writing novels.  But now I am so [...]

A young girl disappears without a trace on her way home from a friend a fall evening. The friend suggests that she may have committed suicide, and the police eventually call of the search. A few months later a few kids find an arm buried in the snow. It turns out to be the missing [...]

We at TheCrimeHouse are proud to welcome Johan Theorin, winner of the CWA John Creasey (New blood) Award 2010, to this interview!
 
Can you describe what a day at work looks like for you?
I have a working room in an old house in central Gothenburg, where I sit between 10 am and 6 pm. Sometimes it’s really slow and [...]

 A teacher is killed by a hit-and-run driver in the Belgian town Villette. Several witnesses claim that the car purposely hit her, so investigating judge Martine Poirot gets involved. The case turns out to have a historic connection and Martine suspects that the teacher was about to reveal an old secret that would have had a [...]

Inger Holt, a Norwegian TV celebrity is murdered in Australia. The Norwegian policeman Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to assist with the investigation, but also to escape from his problems with alcohol and to get some distance to the car crash, which he survived but a colleague was killed in.
Harry Hole and the Australian [...]