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Hard Cheese by Ulf Durling

By nagaisayonara

13 January, 2016

Translated by Bertil Falk — Män som hatar kvinnor (Men who hate women) became The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Polis, polis, potatismos! (Police, police, potatoes) became Murder at the Savoy, the sixth novel in Sjöwall and Wahlöö’s Martin Beck series. In a similar way, Gammal ost (Old Cheese)…

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Bryant & May - London's Glory by Christopher Fowler

By DavidPrestidge

13 November, 2015

If ever there were a more apposite and descriptive title for a book, then I have yet to see it. Fowler – via his detective characters Arthur Bryant and John May – glories in London. He loves its grandeur, its history of architectural bloody-mindedness, and he…

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CIS: A classic revisited - And Then There Were None

By MarinaSofia

7 September, 2015

This classic novel doesn’t need much by way of introduction – it’s just been voted the most popular Agatha Christie book ever. With over 100 million copies sold worldwide, it’s said to be the best-selling crime novel of all time and is generally regarded as…

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Snowblind

By crimefictionlover

30 June, 2015

Our thirst for Scandinavian gloom, death and despair remains unquenched. Ragnar Jónasson takes us to the bleak and suitably isolated town of Siglufjörđur, about as far north-west as it is possible to go in Iceland without falling into the icy waters of the Denmark Strait….

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Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson

By MarinaSofia

31 May, 2015

Translated by Quentin Bates — What expectations do you find yourself harbouring when you pick up a Scandinavian crime novel? Nordic noir is the term that comes to mind. Cold, dark winters, sombre landscapes, a lonely male detective and a plot throbbing with despair and…

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Elementary: The Ghost Line by Adam Christopher

By RoughJustice

26 February, 2015

Because of all the hype surrounding the BBC’s Sherlock, and the popularity of it’s lead actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, it almost feels like sacrilege to point out that the best Holmes and Watson currently on television appear in an American import called Elementary….

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NTN: The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin

By DavidPrestidge

19 November, 2014

Captain Gregor Reinhardt won the Iron Cross while serving in the trenches with the German army in World War I. After a spell between the wars where he became one of the best detectives in Berlin’s Kriminalpolizei, he has reluctantly accepted a commission in the…

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The Corpse with the Platinum Hair by Cathy Ace

By MarinaSofia

27 September, 2014

Canadian crime fiction writers are having their well-deserved moment in the sun just before the long winter sets in. Louise Penny, Peter Robinson and Linwood Barclay are merely the best known of a very diverse and entertaining group of crime writers. Not all of the…

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Hard Cheese by Ulf Durling

Bryant & May - London's Glory by Christopher Fowler

CIS: A classic revisited - And Then There Were None

Snowblind

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson

Elementary: The Ghost Line by Adam Christopher

NTN: The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin

The Corpse with the Platinum Hair by Cathy Ace

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