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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]