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A Darker Shade

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Edited and translated by John-Henri Holmberg — When you open A Darker Shade in the expectation of some suspenseful, Nordic noir short stories, don’t make the mistake that I almost did and skip the 20-page introduction to this anthology. What I wrongly assumed to be…
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You're Mine Now

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Written by Hans Koppel — Swedish author Hans Koppel’s debut in the English language was She’s Never Coming Back, which arrived in 2012 and had an interesting premise. A kidnapped woman was held prisoner in the house opposite her own, with a CCTV link enabling…
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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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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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Babylon by Camilla Ceder

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Readers and publishers alike are eager to discover the ‘next big thing’ in Scandinavian crime fiction. Will this story of love, jealousy and the trade in stolen cultural artefacts be what they’re looking for? Two lovers are shot dead in a flat in Gothenburg, Sweden….
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Bad Blood

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Written by Arne Dahl — Last summer, Harvill Secker released The Blinded Man, the first in Swedish author Arne Dahl’s Intercrime series which is being translated into English. TV adaptations of the books have since appeared on BBC4 in Swedish, with subtitles, via the well-received series…
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Two Soldiers

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Written by Roslund & Hellström — This is the third novel from the Swedish crime writing duo to be translated into English. Anders Roslund is a journalist and criminologist. Börge Hellström is a reformed criminal who now works diverting kids away from gang culture. Together,…
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