Finnish and Scandinavian Review

Looking at how rarely I have time to post on this blog, I've come to the conclusion that I may just have too many blogs. You may know t...

I'm more than a little obsessed with August Strindberg so when my sister brought me this Swedish book about his first and most fam...

I really wanted to like this first Harry Hole novel, but I'm afraid I found it rather far fetched and dull.   For me the best thing ab...

The Human Part is an abstract and quite one-sided view of modern Helsinki (and Finland), but as long as you remember this fact, Hotakaine...

In the Darkness is one of 10 books this prolific Norwegian queen of crime, Karin Fossum , has written featuring the reticent Inspector S...

This crime story, set in modern Stockholm, is Ohlsson's debut novel. It has a gruesome subject matter of disappearing children, a curre...

As you might have noticed from this blog, I do really enjoy a good Scandinavian crime novel. I treat them as leisure reading, as opposed to...