Reviews 

A bit of Scandinavian crime pushed in the UK heavily a couple of years ago following the Wallander boom. OK-ish as a story, middle-class...

Great, big book - post Vietnam meets Raymond Chandler (the end is very Chandler-esque - serious wealth and serious corruption). Small...

1st book about Maria Kallio. Character of some interest but plot very cliched; could almost be 'My First Barbie Doll'. Get this from...

1st book about Maria Kallio. Character of some interest but plot very cliched; could almost be My First Barbie Doll. Get this from...

The first in a series, written by an English man (I assume) featuring a Swedish female detective. Basically a police procedural, leans...

You can see where this is going, in several senses. ('Meet me in M...,' 'Mayhem in M..), just need enough crime related nouns beginning...

Mankell can write, unlike Billingham. This is a short and quite slight book, possibly the first Wallander novel, but Mankell creates...

Still can't make up my mind about this guy; this was not a great book. Need to find another author! Get this on Amazon

The 2nd book. I can't get a clear fix on this guy - they're lurid, over violent, with a fairly unlikeable hero, but clever and well...

Thought I would try another straight away; this is the first Tom Thorne book. I thought it was structurally a bit repetitive (ie of no.98...

A new (to me) crime writer, but the reviews say 'Move over Morse, Rebus et al'; and for once I agree with no great hesitation. This guy...

Trying to rush through another to hit no.100 by 7th April. This is a great book; it is the one about the postal worker who shoots three...

I had read this before but asked D for it for my birthday last year. Enjoyed it less 2nd time round; Robinson seems a bit mannered (not...

I think this is the 1st book in the series and it is another cracker. Man found murdered in anonymous flat, turns out he raped a woman...

Another old murder; this time from WW2 Reykjavik. Hints of a fairy story about it; particularly the family suffering from the very...

Fantastic book about Icelandic left-wing students encouraged to study in Leipzig in Cold War; the body of one is found murdered in the...

Much better than no.76, more like no.75. This guy is quite good; original plotting, three quite interesting cops, especially Erlendur,...

Sounds a bit like a frozen pudding. Elinborg has become a minor character in this one, her boss Erlendur is the major one. He is a rather...

Same schizophrenia. Main plot good; woman murdered in town inhabited by two different murderers who appear in no.54 and no.55, so both...

8/10 in the series ( I have just bought 9). The locked room is apparently analogous to a chess puzzle; how has someone been shot dead (in...