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Category Archives: Finland
Death in a Cold Climate by Barry Forshaw
Forshaw, Barry – ‘Death in a Cold Climate’ Trade paperback: 224 pages (Jan. 2012) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 0230361447 DEATH IN A COLD CLIMATE is the perfect book for those who have sampled and enjoyed a little Scandinavian crime in … Continue reading
Posted in 3 star, Books, Crime fiction, Denmark, England, Eurocrime, Europe, Finland, Iceland, Non-fiction, Norway, Sweden
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Lucifer’s Tears by James Thompson
Lucifer’s Tears by James Thompson Harper Collins (Avon), 2011 Reviewed at Petrona, January 2012.
Posted in Books, Crime fiction, Domestic, Europe, Finland, Police procedural, Series, Social comment
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Scandinavian Crime Fiction eds Andrew Nestingen & Paula Arvas
Scandinavian Crime Fiction eds Andrew Nestingen & Paula Arvas University of Wales Press, 2011. Reviewed at Petrona, November 2011.
Posted in Academia, Books, Crime fiction, Denmark, Europe, Finland, Iceland, Non-fiction, Norway, Sweden, Wales
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Against the Wall by Jarkko Sipila
Against the Wall Jarkko Sipila (Helsinki Homicide #8) (#1 in English translation) translated by Peter Ylitatlo Leppa Ice Cold Crime 2009 Reviewed at Petrona, September 2011.
Posted in Books, Crime fiction, Europe, Finland, Police procedural, Series, Translated
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Purge by Sofi Oksanen
Purge Sofi Oksanen translated by Lola Rogers (from Finnish) Atlantic, 2011 Reviewed at Petrona, September 2011.
Posted in Award winner, Books, Crime fiction, Debut, Domestic, Estonia, Europe, Finland, Historical, Political, Psychology, Social comment, Translated
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The Winter of the Lions by Jan Costin Wagner
Wagner, Jan Costin – ‘The Winter of the Lions’ (translated by Anthea Bell) Trade Paperback: 272 pages (June 2011) Publisher: Harvill Secker ISBN: 1846553466 THE WINTER OF THE LIONS is an ethereal book: a police-procedural novel with an other-wordly quality … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Crime fiction, Eurocrime, Finland, Germany, Police procedural, Social comment, Translated
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Raid and the Blackest Sheep by Harri Nykanen
translator Peter Ylitalo Leppa Ice Cold Crime, 2010, Kindle format (first published in Finnish, 2000) Raid is a young, silent and mysterious enforcer who has been paid to accompany Nygren, an ill, ageing criminal recently released after a long jail … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Crime fiction, Europe, Finland, Police procedural, Series, Thriller, Translated
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Silence by Jan Costin Wagner
Silence by Jan Costin WagnerTranslated by Anthea BellHarvill Secker Silence begins with the description of a murder that took place in 1974, in which a young teenage girl disappeared while riding her bicycle in the Finnish countryside. Her body is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Crime fiction, Europe, Finland, Germany, Mystery, Police procedural, Psychology, Series, Translated
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Snow Angels, by James Thompson
Snow Angels Inspector Kari Vaara is in charge of a small police station in remote Lapland, in the north of Finland. His new wife Kate, who is American and ten years younger than Kari, is a senior manager of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Crime fiction, Debut, Europe, Finland, Noir, Police procedural, USA
Tagged "police procedural", crime fiction, eurocrime, finland, usa
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Nights of Awe by Harri Nykanen
Nykanen, Harri - ‘Nights of Awe’ (translated by Kristian London) Paperback: 278 pages (Feb. 2012) Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press ISBN: 1904738923 The ten days starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur are termed the Days of Awe, or the … Continue reading →