Swedish crime thriller authors.

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Swedish crime thriller authors.

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Having just thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Millennium Trilogies" written by the late Stieg Larsson. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "The Girl Who Played with Fire "and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". I tried another Swedish author Jo Nesbo "The Snowman" and must say it was an even more gripping read. If you like an upredictable thriller then this book is well worth a read. I have just ordered four more of his books hoping they will be just as good.
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Ha ha! That's something we don't see often in the same sentence - Swedish and thriller!!


Sounds great! Please may I borrow the Snowman if you haven't already lent it out to someone? :D
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thumbelina wrote:Ha ha! That's something we don't see often in the same sentence - Swedish and thriller!!
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Wouldn't know about that!
NP. I'll bring it out with me. Then if you like it I'll bring out the others in summer.
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I agree that the Millenium trilogy is a gripping read, mainly because of the Lisbeth Salander character, although the 'torture porn' aspect made me rather queasy. But Camilla Lackberg's Le Predicateur I found quite unpleasant when describing the crimes and tedious when describing the lives of the sane characters.

Can I put in a plug for Julia Latynina's La Chasse au renne de Siberie, which appears in the 'actes noirs' series, published by Actes Sud,which includes the Larsson and Lackberg novels. As well as being a damn good thriller it also gives a warts and all picture of the 'wild west' Russia of the 1990's, showing the corrupt connections between the banks, the privatised industries, the government and the mafia - which the author is well qualfied to write about because of her day job as a Moscow journalist.

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