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The Girl With the Dragon Tat­too (Vin­tage 2009) by Stieg Larrson (author) and Reg Kee­land (trans­la­tor) is the first book in the Mil­len­nium Tril­ogy, set in Swe­den.
The Girl With the Dragon Tat­too was the biggest best­seller last year. The orig­i­nal, Swedish title was “Män som hatar kvin­nor” which trans­lates to “Men That Hate […]

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The Devil’s Star (Ran­dom House UK) by Jo Nesbø and trans­lated by Don Bartlett, is the third book in the Harry Hole series set in Oslo, Norway.
What can I say? I love this series. For crime fic­tion fans look­ing for some­thing new, this series serves up more than just your typ­i­cal police pro­ce­dural.
“The Devil’s Star” […]

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Mys­tic River (2003) by Den­nis Lehane is set in the author’s home­town of Boston. It is a poignant and emo­tion­ally mov­ing story that clev­erly dis­guises itself as a police pro­ce­dural.
In fact, the story is told in third per­son and seems to be more of a char­ac­ter dri­ven crime novel. One of the best I’ve read.
The story introduces […]

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