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c’est dommage
Hot off the Rap Sheet – Fred Vargas won the International Dagger, facing a field of Scandinavian heavyweights. She was not my front runner, but then I am a bit biased (and a bit less taken with her...
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a conversation and some reviews
The CBC’s “Writers and Company” has a conversation with four interesting writers from different parts of the globe – from Italy, Gianrico Carofiglio; from Sweden, Asa Larsson; from Scotland, Louise...
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here on earth and on the blogs
Peter Rozovsky, the keeper of the Detectives Beyond Borders blog (and possessor of a brain the size of a planet), provides an expert tour of international crime fiction, as does Hirsh Sawhney, the...
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reviews and views
Still catching up . . . Marilyn Stasio reviews Box 21 by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom and finds it “a movie trapped in a book” – given the drama as a badly abused woman takes hostages in a...
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mixed metaphors Saturday
The Cricketing Librarian has been reading Scandinavian crime lately – giving an eloquent thumbs-up to Stieg Larsson, Johan Theorin, Arnaldur Indridason, and (not Scandinavian, but also recommended)...
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reviews and resolutions
Karen reviews Death in Oslo by Anne Holt at that magnificent site, Euro Crime. It sounds good, in spite of a somewhat annoying lead character and one plot-driven bit of mind-lapse. “My enjoyment of...
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the next Stieg Larsson
Norm (aka Uriah) gets annoyed when the only criterion used for predicting the “next Stieg Larsson” is that the author is Swedish. Harrumph. But he does have some female authors to recommend. There’s...
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Nordic, like the Netherlands
Maureen Corrigan annexes the Netherlands as part of the Nordic world and ponders the stylistic difference between the Martin Beck series and the Millennium Trilogy. The Independent has a story on how...
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Sleepless in Scotland
For those of you lucky enough to be in Edinburgh on the shortest night of the year, you really should investigate this interesting event that is part of the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival....
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Some Criminally Good Scholarship
Infinite Earths, an online journal that unpacks popular culture in a variety of ways, has published a special issue on Nordic Noir and the Scandinavian Invasion, focused on the impact Nordic crime...
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