Category Archives: General

Clever Book Storage

A new apartment with more space means that our bed no longer has to stand against the wall. It also means that we had the opportunity to let our book piles move up from the dust bunnies on the floor … Continue reading

Bullets across the Bay

The University Library at the University of California, Berkeley presents Bullets Across the Bay, an exhibit in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, September 8, 2011 through February 29, 2012. Drawing on materials from various campus libraries, the exhibit explores the … Continue reading

Camilla Läckberg

Best selling author Camilla Läckberg is one of Sweden’s best selling authors and have been translated in to 33 different languages. In an article in New York times she is compared to Stieg Larsson. Village by the sea Läckberg has … Continue reading

A Guest Post from Liquid Smoke Author Jeff Shelby

In a few weeks we will review “Liquid Smoke” by Jeff Shelby here at TheCrimeHouse. Until then, here is a “guest post” from the author himself. Questions That I Am Asked Frequently* By Jeff Shelby, Author of Liquid Smoke I am … Continue reading

High Fashion Crime Scenes

We mostly write about novels, TV and movies here at TheCrimeHouse, but we think it is fun when we come across crime fiction in other art forms. For example, last year we wrote about “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” … Continue reading

I received a package…

I received a package with two Swedish novels a while back – what a nice surprise! I look forward to reading them this summer. The sender, Anna, is from Sweden but lives in the U.S. A big thank you to … Continue reading

Questions about forensics?

Are you a big CSI fan? Have you ever wondered how things are done in real life? Here is your opportunity! TheCrimeHouse will interview an internationally recognized forensic scientist with 15 years of forensic experience later this summer. Please email … Continue reading

Sightseeing for Book Lovers

During my visit to New York last week I found some time to visit a few literary tourist attractions. Public Library One of the week’s highlights was the visit to New York Public Library, a building I have seen in … Continue reading

Stieg Larsson & Beyond

The Swedish Embassy in the U.S. is hosting a series of lectures highlighting various conditions in Sweden today as portrayed in the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. The main four subjects in the series deal with: Violence Against Women/Trafficking, Swedish … Continue reading

Visit to Cabot Cove, Maine…

…or rather Mendocino, California, because it was in this coastal town that “Murder, She Wrote” was shot. According to unconfirmed sources nine episodes of the series were shot in Mendocino, but shots from the town were used in considerably more … Continue reading