Features

NTN: Anders de la Motte interviewed

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Swedish author Anders de la Motte created quite a stir with his debut novel Game, which won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ First Book Award. It is book one of a trilogy of crime novels (Buzz and Bubble are the others) that have been translated into…
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NTN: Sander Jakobsen interview

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There’s a new Scandinavian crime fiction author on the block. Well, two actually. Because Sander Jakobsen is the pseudonym for Danish school teachers Dagmar Winther and Kenneth Degnbol. One day, they decided to write a crime fiction novel together and produced The Preacher, a tale…
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News

First look: Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

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When Cockroaches is published on 28 November here in the UK, all 10 Harry Hole novels will be available in English. And, sadly, that probably won’t be enough for fans of Jo Nesbo, who can’t seem to get enough of the Norwegian author and his…
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New Jo Nesbo film planned

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Recently we reported on Jo Nesbo’s nom de plume, Tom Johansen. We also revealed that Harvill Secker had signed the rights to two books written by Nesbo under that name. Today we bring you even more big news on how the Norwegian author is building…
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AppsReviews

Device 6

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Written by Simon Flesser and Magnus ‘Gordon’ Gardebäck — If the legendary designer Saul Bass had created mystery games for the iPad, they’d probably have come out a little bit like Device 6. And while it has the look and feel of the opening titles…
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Book Club

Police

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There is nothing new about bringing treasured characters back from the dead. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle responded to unprecedented public dismay by resurrecting Sherlock Holmes after his apparent demise at The Reichenbach Falls. After Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole appeared to meet a similarly violent end…
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