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good news
Steph’s wonderful WhereDunnit blog is full of good news. BBC has commissioned more Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh – and the first is finally set to run in the US. The Nervous Man is a new Wallander...
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bits and pieces
DJ reviews Hakan Nesser’s Kvinde med Modermaerke aka Woman With Birthmark (and what an interesting Danish cover it has). Though it’s about rather dreary people, and the protagonist can be grumpy at...
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raised eyebrows, humor, and the universality of dialogue and difference
J. Kingston Pierce of the incomparable Rap Sheet notices John Harvey’s quote from a Hakan Nesser interview – to whit: The crime novel used to be, and I stress used to be, a despised genre, diversionary...
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More Reviews and Some New Writers on the Scene
Jan Wallentin is a newly translated author who undergoes torture at the Guardian where reviewer John O’Connell describes Strindberg’s Star (published in 2010 and apparently popular in Europe) as...
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Interview, Reviews, and What-Not
I’m quite behind on crime in the Nordic countries, having three or four new books read but not yet reviewed. Meanwhile here are some links to reviews and interviews of interest. Craig Sisterson, New...
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The Petrona Award
. . . for 2015 has gone to Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s The Silence of the Sea. A particularly wonderful aspect of this year’s award is that it was presented by Maj Sjöwall, who attended CrimeFest this year...
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The Petrona Award
. . . for 2015 has gone to Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s The Silence of the Sea. A particularly wonderful aspect of this year’s award is that it was presented by Maj Sjöwall, who attended CrimeFest this year...
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