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Crime Scene: ANTTI TUOMAINEN The Healer. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 19 Feb 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 1 comment

This dystopian Finnish crime novel is well above the ordinary. The Healer is set in Finland in the near future of drastic climate change. Floods, earthquakes and disease have ravaged most of the world, causing widespread cultural upheaval, the disintegration of...

Crime Scene: DEREK B MILLER Norwegian by Night. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by Jean Bedford | 22 Oct 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Simply one of the best crime novels of the year. Transcending genre, and blending genres, Norwegian by Night is partly a getaway/chase/escape thriller; partly a police-procedural; partly a social novel about family, displacement, guilt, grief and war, and, throughout,...

Crime Scene Shorts: Jean Bedford reviews six recent women’s crime novels

by Jean Bedford | 22 Aug 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Åsa Larsson The Black Path, Kathy Reichs Bones Are Forever, Karin Slaughter Criminal, Camilla Lackberg The Drowning, Tess Gerritson Last To Die, Anne Holt The Blind Goddess. Åsa Larsson’s The Black Path is the fourth in the Rebecka Martinsson series to be...

Crime Scene: Jean Bedford on the Nordic Phenomenon

by Jean Bedford | 28 Feb 2012 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 2 comments

Stieg Larsson has done for the Scandinavian crime novel what Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code did for the conspiracy/adventure novel. Fortunately for crime fiction fans, most of the precursors and followers of Larsson are very good writers, with serious social issues to...

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