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Review: Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
I bought this book a couple of years ago when I first started getting interested in translated crime fiction (for the record my first one was a Larsson but Asa rather than Stieg). I rescued the book...
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Books of the Month – August 2010
That Was Then August was a hectic month involving the country’s most bizarre election (which had me watching far more TV than I normally would) and an invasion from overseas (i.e. family came to...
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Crime Fiction Alphabet: Z is for Zeitgeist
Crime fiction writers are able, should they be so inclined, to explore the social and political settings in which their stories take place, often in a way that contemporary journalism or other writing...
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Maximum reading: minimum reviewing
The main prompt for me to start this blog was to write down my thoughts about the books I read so that my future self would be a little less ignorant about my reading than I had been in the pre-blog...
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Books of the Month – October 2011
I didn’t manage a lot of reviewing in October but was lucky enough to have a couple of 5-star reads which means Book of the month is a difficult choice so I’m not going to make it. Tom Franklin‘s...
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Review: The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
The third of ten novels in a well-planned series THE MAN ON THE BALCONY takes place in 1967 at the tail end of the Swedish summer. In quick succession the bodies of two young girls are found in...
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