ICE TOWN by Will Dean

ICE TOWN Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £20 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When news reaches Gavrik that a Peter Hedberg, a young deaf man, has gone missing, Tuva Moodyson packs up and takes the nine hour drive to Sweden’s arctic north. She is chasing the story, but she also hopes […]

STALLO by Stefan Spjut

STALLO Stefan Spjut Translated by Susan Beard Faber & Faber (www.faber.co.uk) £14.99 In the summer of 1978 young Marcus Brodin disappears from the cabin he is sharing with his mother in the remote woods of central Sweden. His mother claims he was taken by a giant, but her reliance on prescription drugs makes her an […]

THE BLACK PATH by Åsa Larsson

THE BLACK PATH Åsa Larsson Translated by Marlaine Delargy MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £18.99 Late last summer, MacLehose Press published Åsa Larsson’s Until Thy Wrath Be Past. Despite multiple attempts in my review to convince people that it was the third book in the series, it turns out that it was, actually, the fourth. MacLehose’s latest […]

EASY MONEY by Jens Lapidus

EASY MONEY Jens Lapidus Translated by Astri von Arbin Ahlander Macmillan (www.panmacmillan.com) £12.99 Released: 2nd February 2012 When Jens Lapidus’ debut novel, Easy Money, landed on my desk, it came bearing a quote that is almost inevitable these days on the English translations of Swedish novels – the quote that compares this writer to Stieg […]

UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST by Åsa Larsson

UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST Åsa Larsson Translated by Laurie Thompson MacLehose Press (www.maclehosepress.com) £12.99 Released: 4th August 2011 In the early spring thaw, the body of a young woman is discovered floating in the river Torne, in the northern extremes of Sweden. It doesn’t take long for police to discover that it’s the […]