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To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi

7 October, 2020

Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner — A young boy and a father figure in the woods are collecting botanical specimens, a bucolic scene a few pages in from the opening to this beguiling historical crime novel. The man is Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, who was the real-life leader of a…

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The Pyramid by Henning Mankell – the real young Wallander

By nagaisayonara

4 September, 2020

Translated by Ebba Segerberg and Laurie Thompson — The Pyramid is Henning Mankell revisiting Wallander’s flawed past. In this collection of short stories, written over several years in the 1990s, Mankell fills in Wallander’s past, explains how he became the meticulous and dedicated detective we…

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Young Wallander coming to Netflix

By crimefictionlover

15 August, 2020

Rolf Lassgård has played the role, Kenneth Branagh too, but Krister Henriksson was the definitive Wallander in the eyes of most Nordic noir fans. Now Henning Mankell‘s Swedish detective is being revived once again, this time for an origin story and the actor to play…

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The Summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

10 June, 2020

Translated by Saskia Vogel — Most readers will know Håkan Nesser for his popular and widely read Inspector van Veeteren series set in the fictional city of Maardam. Nesser didn’t set the series in Sweden because he loathes the stereotypical depressed characters and dark and…

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Swedish crime show Before We Die returns for season 2

By crimefictionlover

25 February, 2020

Back in 2017, the Swedish crime show Before We Die made its UK debut with subtitles on Channel 4. It was a big hit with Crime Fiction Lover readers, who will be pleased to know that the intense, Stockholm-based cop show is returning to Channel…

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A Very Scandi Scandal – Nordic noir caper comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

20 November, 2019

Arriving on the Channel 4 streaming service Walter Presents from 6 December, A Very Scandi Scandal offers a different perspective on Nordic noir with a hilarious Stockholm-based heist. Rather than bagging awards for suspense or drama, here’s a show that won Best Comedy at Sweden’s…

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Motive X

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 October, 2019

Written by Stefan Ahnhem, translated by Agnes Broome — Motive X is the third instalment in Swedish author Stefan Ahnhem’s successful Fabian Risk series and continues where Eighteen Below left off. The Risk family is still carrying the scars of being terrorised by a serial…

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Blood Song by Johana Gustawsson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

18 August, 2019

Translated by David Warriner — Kerstin, Götan and Louise Lindbergh are viciously murdered and their tongues cut out in their home in Falkenberg, Sweden. In London the youngest of the family, Aliénor Lindbergh, is a new police recruit being mentored by profiler Emily Roy, when…

Crime Fiction Lover

To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi

The Pyramid by Henning Mankell – the real young Wallander

Young Wallander coming to Netflix

The Summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser

Swedish crime show Before We Die returns for season 2

A Very Scandi Scandal – Nordic noir caper comes to Walter Presents

Motive X

Blood Song by Johana Gustawsson

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