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‘The Boy in the Suit Case’ by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
Fiction – paperback; Soho Crime; 313 pages; 2011. Translated from the Danish by Lene Kaaberbøl. If you thought all crime novels had to feature a police investigation, think again. In this Danish...
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‘The Caller’ by Karin Fossum
Fiction – paperback; Vintage; 296 pages; 2012. Translated from the Norwegian by K.E. Semmel. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. Norwegian author Karin Fossum is quickly turning into one of my...
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‘In the Darkness’ by Karin Fossum
Fiction – paperback; Vintage; 400 pages; 2013. Translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. Over the years I have read several of Karin Fossum’s perceptive...
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‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent
Fiction – hardcover; Picador; 378 pages; 2013. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. I may possibly be the last person in the world to read Hannah Kent’s extraordinary debut novel, Burial Rites,...
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‘I Can See in the Dark’ by Karin Fossum
Fiction – paperback; Harvill Secker; 250 pages; 2013. Translated from the Norweigan by James Anderson. Norweigan writer Karin Fossum is best known for her Inspector Sejer series, but I Can See in the...
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‘Mercy’ by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Fiction – paperback; Penguin; 512 pages; 2011. Translated from the Danish by Lisa Hartford. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. As far as Scandinavian crime fiction is concerned, Jussi...
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‘The Darkest Room’ by Johan Theorin
Fiction – paperback; Black Swan; 475 pages; 2009. Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Earlier this year I read Johan Theorin’s debut novel Echoes from the Dead and was immensely impressed...
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‘Until Thy Wrath Be Past’ by Åsa Larsson
Fiction – hardcover; MacLehose Press; 317 pages; 2011. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Review copy courtesy of the publisher. I remember how we died. So begins Åsa Larsson’s haunting...
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‘The Princess of Burundi’ by Kjell Eriksson
Fiction – paperback; Thomas Dunne Books; 300 pages; 2006. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. Kjell Eriksson’s The Princess of Burundi won the Swedish Academy Award for Best Crime Novel in...
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‘Outrage’ by Arnaldur Indriðason
Fiction – Kindle edition; Vintage Digital; 290 pages; 2011. Translated from the Icelandic by Anne Yates. Outrage is the seventh book in Arnaldur Indriðason’s Reykjavik Murder Mysteries Series, which...
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‘Black Seconds’ by Karin Fossum
Fiction – Kindle edition; Vintage Digital; 352 pages; 2008. Translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund. The disappearance of a young child and the ensuing police hunt is a well-worn trope in...
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‘October is the Coldest Month’ by Christoffer Carlsson
Fiction – paperback; Scribe; 181 pages; 2017. Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. A teenage girl unwittingly caught up in a terrible crime is the focus of Christoffer Carlsson’s...
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