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 [...]

I have finally read the first two novels by Johan Theorin: Echoes from the Dead (original title: Skumtimmen) and The Darkest Room (original title: Nattfåk). I had heard so many good things about the novels, so I was a little worried that they would not live up to my expectations. There was no need to [...]

Shutter Island is a suspense/thriller that takes place on said Alcatraz-like island, which houses an institution for the criminally insane, complete with intimidating cliffs, rocky beaches, and chilly water preventing escape. Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) arrive via ferry as US Marshals investigating a recent escape. They become increasingly [...]

Today I went through my bookshelfs for inspiration and started reading Dorothy Gilmans first Pollifax book Mrs Pollifax the Unexpected Mrs Pollifax from 1966 again. I loved it when I was younger and I found out I still love it!
Mrs Pollifax is, just as the title says, unexpected. She is a retired lady who despite her flowers, [...]

I should have been suspicious from the beginning since I usually do not like novels that start with a map and a list of the main characters. This novel was no exception. It should have been called “How to waste a Sunday.” 
The reason I bought this novel was a review that described it as “an exciting and [...]

Shroud for the Archbishop is the second book  in Peter Tremaynes historical serie about the celtic (irish) sister and advocat in the 7th century.
This is the first Sister Fidelma book I´ve ever read but apparently they are quite popular. In this book Sister Fidelma travels to Rome to meet the Pope to get her convent blessed. There she also meets the [...]

The main character Hannah Swenson returns to her hometown Lake Eden, Minnesota after her father’s death. She opens the coffee shop “The Cookie Jar” where gossip travels as fast as can be expected in a town of 3,000 residents. One morning she finds a delivery driver killed in the alley behind her bakery with one [...]

Our Lady of Pain, written by Elena Forbes 2008, is an English police procedural that takes place in London (Southwest in London) This is Forbes second novel with police detective Mark Tartaglia and his Side Kick Sam.  
Police procedurals can be more or less realistic when it comes to how the detectives solve their cases but you can tell that [...]

This is a real page turner and sensation thriller. Someone kills newlyweds around Europe and sends a postcard with the murdered victims on them to journalists in the town where the murder takes place.
It´s not hard to figure out that Liza Marklund has created the character Dessie. Just as Annika Bengtzon, the head character in Lizas crime novels, [...]

The unemployed journalist Maria Allende and her family move into a house in the outskirts of Stockholm. When Maria finds blood in the kitchen she decides to find out more about the couple that lived in the house before them. She discovers that the husband is in prison because he allegedly killed his wife. Before [...]