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Norway

Featured Excerpt: Scandinavian Noir by Wendy Lesser

By Wendy Lesser

May 6, 2020

  REALITY AS FICTION She walks east on Grønlandsleiret and eventually ends up at number 44, which turns out to be a large, glassily modern building set back in parklike grounds. Men, women, and children are heading up the winding path that leads from the street corner to the building, and she is so struck…

Review: Thelma (2017)

By Peter Foy

December 19, 2017

Although mankind would like to think that they have free will throughout their life, there is the inarguable fact that one has absolutely no control over their upbringing. We are brought into this world knowing nothing and are powerless from being imprinted with the values and ideologies of our parents, guardians, and mandated norms in…

What Is Your Favorite Winter Mystery Locale?

By Crime HQ

January 10, 2017

Brrr. It’s getting cold out there! With all the snow hitting the east coast, we started to think about all the winter mysteries out there.  There’s something extra sinister about a setting that’s dark, cold, and quiet that makes for a perfect murder mystery. And there are plenty of snow-covered countries where our favorites take…

Murder, Mystery, and Scandinavia: The Perfect Combination

By Kristen Houghton

December 8, 2016

If you like the setting of your murder mysteries to take place in a cold, snowy climate, you’re not alone. The newest and bloodiest murder mysteries now seem to take place in Scandinavia. There’s something about murder, mystery, and the bitter cold that seem to go together, and it seems that readers have been entertained…

One of Us: New Excerpt

By Asne Seierstad

April 20, 2015

One of Us by Åsne Seierstad is a true crime account of Anders Breivik, a Norwegian man who would go on a terrifying massacre that shook the country to its core (available April 21, 2015). On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing…

Dreamless: New Excerpt

By Jørgen Brekke

February 10, 2015

Dreamless by Jorgen Brekke is the 2nd Nordic thriller in the Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker series (available February 10, 2015).  A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered—her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar,…

Where Monsters Dwell, a crime debut by Norwegian author Jorgen Brekke

Fresh Meat: Where Monsters Dwell by Jorgen Brekke

By Scott Adlerberg

February 9, 2014

Where Monsters Dwell by Jørgen Brekke is the debut in translation of a whodunit-slash-literary thriller featuring Virginia cop Felicia Stone and Inspector Odd Sinsaker of Norway as they face distant murders linked to old journal of a 16th-century serial killer (available February 11, 2014). When I received the offer, I jumped at the chance to…

The Best Novel Nominees, or How To Handicap the 2011 Edgars

By Jordan Foster

April 24, 2012

For the first time in recent memory (read: more than a decade), none of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award nominees for Best Novel have ever been nominated before. On April 26th, one of them will be announced from the stage at New York’s Grand Hyatt Hotel and take a first walk with this…

Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand

Fresh Meat: Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand

By Victoria Janssen

February 2, 2012

Photographer Cass Neary is already wanted by the police for questioning when she receives a suspicious job offer that sends her from Helsinki to Iceland… with murder following her every step. I’m familiar with Elizabeth Hand’s dark fantasy novels, so I was excited to see how her writing translated into another genre. I have not…

Steven Van Zandt in Lilyhammer

Lilyhammer’s First Season Coming February 6

By Laura K. Curtis

January 3, 2012

Netflix is entering the subscription television world with Lilyhammer, starring Steven Van Zandt as—what else—an East Coast mobster who decides that the ideal place to hide out while in Witness Protection would be Lillehammer, Norway, which he knows about only from seeing it on television during the 1994 Olympics. Of course, things don’t work out…

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