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Category Archives: Sweedish Crime
Review: The Man on the Balcony, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
The Blurb The third book in the hugely acclaimed Martin Beck series … someone is assaulting and killing young girls in the once-peaceful parks of Stockholm. Detective Inspector Marin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won’t say much, … Continue reading
Review: Unwanted, Kristina Ohlsson
The Book Blurb In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer, a little girl is abducted from a crowded train. Despite hundreds of potential witnesses, no one noticed when the girl was taken. Her mother, left behind at the previous … Continue reading
Posted in Kristina Ohlsson, Police Procedurals, Publishers, Review Books, Simon & Schuster, Sweedish Crime
Tagged Kristina Ohlsson, Unwanted
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Review: Faceless Killers, Henning Mankell
This book is the first in the Wallander series of books. It was first published in Sweden in 1991. I have complied an Amazon list of all the books in the series The first few pages are written from the … Continue reading
Minty is the Next Stieg Larsson
A shop assistant in Waterstones came up to us and smiled. She cast a semi-disapproving eye over me before grinning and putting a sticker on my four-year-old daughter’s head. Then she went off sticking stickers here and there. Minty was … Continue reading
Posted in Salander, Stieg Larsson, Sweedish Crime
Tagged Steig Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
This is the second of the ten Martin Beck novels. The first is Roseanna. They are quiet different books. Roseanna begins with the discover of the body. In this book Martin Beck is asked to track down a man who … Continue reading
The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
This is the second of the Millennium trilogy books by Stieg Larsson. I read the first – The girl with the dragon tattoo – last year – this time I downloaded an un abridged audiobook from a library. In this … Continue reading
Roseanna, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
This is the first in the ten book Martin Beck series. Bleak and grim for the most part. They couldn’t resist switching to a tense thriller for the last two chapters. A friend gave us the entire set of ten … Continue reading
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson
The text is a bit clunky in places – and it would have been improved if it had been cut by about a third. Having said that I was sucked into the novel and enjoyed it. There was a rape … Continue reading
