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Review: THE HUNTING DOGS by Jorn Lier Horst
The third novel (which has been translated into English) to feature senior Norwegian policeman William Wisting is, at least on one level, a standard procedural novel with two murder investigations...
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Review: SATELLITE PEOPLE by Hans Olav Lahlum
In Oslo in 1969 a wealthy business man rings Kolbjørn Kristiansen, the police inspector made locally famous after a tough investigation the previous year, to report he is in fear for his life. Before...
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Review: THE DROWNED BOY by Karin Fossum
I’m slowly realising that Karin Fossum has sneakily become one of my very favourite authors. For though her books are not showy and do not set, or even follow, trends in the genre each one of the...
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Review: THE CAVEMAN by Jørn Lier Horst
THE CAVEMAN opens with the discovery of Viggo Hansen’s body in his Norwegian home. Although it seems the man died of natural causes, so police involvement is minimal, the fact that the body lay...
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Review: HELL FIRE by Karin Fossum
Karin Fossum has never seemed much interested in crime itself and rarely dwells on the details of the horrible things that have befallen the many victims 12 police procedurals demand. Instead she...
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Review: THE CATALYST KILLING by Hans Olav Lahlum
For the third instalment of what has become a favourite historical crime series for me we move out of the 60’s and into 1970. The book opens with one of the series’ heroes, Inspector Kolbjørn...
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Out of step on THE BIRD TRIBUNAL by Agnes Ravatn
I’m quite used to having a dissenting opinion about a popular or much-praised book but in the case of THE BIRD TRIBUNAL by Agnes Ravatn I seem to be a completely lonesome voice. Whether on Good Reads...
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Review: ORDEAL by Jørn Lier Horst
Taking place a few months after THE CAVEMAN Jørn Lier Horst’s fifth William Wisting novel available in English was, for me at least, a return to the series’ top form. ORDEAL is a complicated but...
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Review: I’M TRAVELLING ALONE by Samuel Bjork
One of the things I generally like about European crime fiction is that it isn’t as full of psychopaths and violence as mainstream American and English novels can be but this one seems squarely aimed...
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Review: WHERE ROSES NEVER DIE by Gunnar Staalesen
I occasionally wonder if authors of long-running series anticipate new readers with every book or assume that at some point they are writing for existing fans only. I wonder this because as a reader I...
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