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The best non-Nordic cold climate crime...

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A challenging setting often makes for an interesting read, and Scandinavian authors in particular have become renowned for their ability to weave the freezing weather into their crime stories. From Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow right back to Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, low temperatures…
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MarinaSofia: Top five books of 2013

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Over the last year I’ve read many good crime books – even a few excellent ones – but my final choice for the top five surprised me. They aren’t all books that I’ve awarded an enthusiastic five stars. They weren’t all necessarily my ‘type’ of…
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The Frozen Dead

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Written by Bernard Minier — There is something disquieting about the icy wilderness of the Pyrenees. Diane Berg, a young forensic psychologist, is accustomed to mountains: after all, she is Swiss and has trained with the prestigious Professor Spitzner at the University of Geneva. But the…
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Frozen horses, mystic owls...

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On the Radar – Our radar this week has us on the trail of two serial killers stateside, dealing with a tricky investigation into the discovery of a mass grave in a Stockholm suburb, seeing what could possibly go wrong if you take something out…
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