Joachim B Schmidt

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

19 July, 2024

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — If you haven’t read the first Kalmann novel, first published in 2022, you’ll probably find the opening section its sequel quite disorientating. Ever if you have read it, you may still feel that way. The story is told from…

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On the Radar: A mountain awakes

By crimefictionlover

12 July, 2024

There is always something new to discover in the crime fiction genre, and that’s why we love it so much. As well as a very unusual sort of crime novel set in Iceland, which is where we start off this week, we’ve got a legal…

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Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

8 July, 2024

Sometimes, it seems, magnetic north has a pull that is more than just ionic. For Swiss crime fiction author Joachim B Schmidt, this was certainly the case and after falling in love with the place as a teenager he emigrated there in 2007. It’s where…

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Kalmann by Joachim B Schmidt

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 May, 2022

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — In Kalmann, the Swiss-born journalist and author Joachim B Schmidt brings us the story of a local man’s disappearance from the remote village of Rauferhöfn in northeast Iceland. However, this isn’t your typical gloomy Nordic noir crime mystery. Schmidt’s…

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On the Radar: The Sheriff of Raufarhöfn

By crimefictionlover

6 May, 2022

This week our new books column introduces five crime novels, including the chance to meet a new and unusual character in the genre, Kalmann, who also calls himself the Sheriff of Raufarhöfn. Yes, this is Icelandic crime fiction of the quirkiest kind – which means…

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Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

On the Radar: A mountain awakes

Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

Kalmann by Joachim B Schmidt

On the Radar: The Sheriff of Raufarhöfn

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