Scandinavian crime fiction

Dark As My Heart

5 January, 2016

Antti Tuomainen’s second crime novel to be translated into English has got to be on your reading pile if you love Scandinavian crime fiction. Take a liberal helping of spicy Greek tragedy, and place it in-between two layers of dark mystery. Then frost with some Nordic existentialism….

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First look: Crime Scene magazine issue 2

By crimefictionlover

9 December, 2015

The second issue of the quarterly magazine Crime Scene has landed on newsstands up and down the UK, and is hopefully with its subscribers as well. The big focus this time is on Scandinavian crime TV, with a major feature on The Bridge and one on…

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Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 December, 2015

Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan — Swedish-born writer Cecilia Ekbäck’s debut crime thriller is set in remote north Sweden in 1717. The long darkness of winter is closing in, and the scattered homesteads on Blackåsen Mountain are preparing for what the signs suggest will be a…

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First look: Nightblind by Ragnar Jonasson

By crimefictionlover

2 December, 2015

No sooner have we included Ragnar Jonasson’s novel Snowblind in our top five debuts of 2015, than its sequel has arrived. Nightblind is already available for Kindle, and comes out as a paperback on 15 January. Take a nice long look at this pocket-sized paperback with…

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NTN: Erik Axl Sund interviewed

By Jeremy Megraw

26 November, 2015

Crime fiction readers and publishers alike continue to ride the popular wave of Nordic noir, ever scanning the horizon for the next Stieg Larsson. Newcomers Jerker Eriksson (right) and Håkan Axlander Sundquist, collectively known under the pseudonym Erik Axl Sund, are making their own waves with…

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Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

By crimefictionlover

5 November, 2015

Translated by Neil Smith — Well known for his bestselling Harry Hole novels, Jo Nesbo has led his fans down a new avenue of late. Last year’s Blood on Snow was a wonderfully gloomy piece of noir writing, set in the middle of a 1970s winter and featuring a…

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Dark As My Heart by Antti Tuomainen

By crimefictionlover

23 October, 2015

Translated by Lola Rogers — This is the second novel Finnish author and poet Antti Tuomainen has seen translated into English. His first was the hauntingly ambiguous mystery The Healer, in which a man went searching for his missing wife in a near-future Helsinki on the verge of…

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First look: Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

By crimefictionlover

15 October, 2015

Remember, remember the fifth of November. But you can forget Guy Fawks and fireworks because Norwegian author Jo Nesbo will illuminating the pitch black sky with his new noir novel Midnight Sun. A copy has just landed here at Crime Fiction Lover HQ and we…

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Dark As My Heart

First look: Crime Scene magazine issue 2

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck audiobook

First look: Nightblind by Ragnar Jonasson

NTN: Erik Axl Sund interviewed

Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

Dark As My Heart by Antti Tuomainen

First look: Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

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