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Patrik Hedstrom is a character featured in a series of detective novels by Swedish author Camilla Lackberg. The series is set in Fjallbacka, which is a quiet fishing community. The series is also known as the Fjallbacka series.
Camilla Lackberg is a Swedish author of crime fiction. Her books consist of very in-depth characterization, often looking at how horrible her characters can possibly be. She doesn’t spend as much time writing about the scenes, but rather allowing the reader’s imagination to take over. She has often been referred to as the “Swedish Agatha […]
The Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigations is a series of police procedural novels by American author Leighton Gage. Gage is an American expat living in Brazil who has become extremely interested in Brazilian culture, thus he created the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series. The series has been translated into several languages and deal with issues […]
Leighton Gage is an American novelist who has lived in Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia and Argentina before finally settling in Brazil. He writes police procedural novels featuring Mario Silva, which cover issues that are prevalent in Brazil, but do not exist in the United States.
Charlie Parker is a fictional character and a series of detective novels by Irish novelist John Connolly. Charlie Parker is a private detective and anti-hero who is looking for the man who killed his wife and daughter. The series deals with some supernatural themes such as ghosts and angels.
John Connolly is an Irish novelist of crime fiction novels, largely featuring private detective Charlie Parker. Connolly has also written several standalone novels – a few of which had been adapted to film – as well as some supernatural short stories. Connolly’s inspirations include James Lee Burke, Ed McBain and Ross Macdonald.
The Crime Writers of Canada unveiled its nominees for their 2012 Arthur Ellis Awards, celebrating the best in Canadian crime fiction. Among the novelists announced are Louise Penny and William Deverell.
Dick Francis (1920-2010) was a British novelist of crime novels, largely involving horse racing. Before becoming an author, Francis was a champion jockey in British National Hunt racing. For four years, he was the jockey to The Queen Mother. Following a bad fall, he retired from racing and started on a writing career where he […]
The Millennium Series is a series of crime/thriller novels posthumously published by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. The main protagonist of the series is Lisbeth Salander. The first book in the Millennium series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was adapted into a Hollywood movie in 2011 by David Fincher. The three books already have Swedish […]
Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was a Swedish author who is best known for the Millennium series, a crime fiction series that includes the incredibly popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. During his lifetime, he edited periodicals and wrote some non-fiction books in Swedish. He spent his life researching right-wing extremism. Larsson himself was a communist.