Reviews 

A variant on Scandi noir, this is set in Helsinki, so Finnish noir, which lacks resonance. A quite good police procedural, with a very...

A Skandi–noir novel, I guess. Well plotted especially toward the end, but I found the central characters totalling un-interesting. Hanna,...

I have read a lot of the Inspector Van Veeteren books, but these were five stand alone novellas in which he doesn’t feature. Three have...

An adaptation of the TV series, a lot of which I had forgotten or missed. Very good, very long (700+ pages) but fast-paced. Although...

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...

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...

Airplane reading en route for Spain. Not a lot shorter than George Eliot, except on quality. Nesbo seems to be billed as the next Steig...

I have read this before, but equally good 2nd time round. Fast-paced and with a brilliant plot. Does the Wennerstrom empire appear in the...