Category Archives: Camilla Lackberg

Women in Translation 2017

Posted on August 6, 2017 by bernadetteinoz

I learned via Mrs Peabody’s excellent blog that August is being celebrated as Women in Translation month. This is in an attempt to address the fact that only about a quarter of the world’s literature that is translated into English … Continue reading →

Posted in Asa Larsson, Camilla Lackberg, Claudia Pineiro, Fred Vargas, Karin Alvtegen, Karin Fossum, Kati Hiekkapelto, list, Liza Marklund, Teresa Solana, Yrsa Sigurdardottir | Tagged | 2 Comments

Review: THE LOST BOY by Camilla Lackberg

Posted on February 11, 2014 by bernadetteinoz

In western Sweden’s version of Cabot Cove there is, in the seventh instalment of Lackberg’s series, a nasty death, a historic mystery (of sorts) and a whole load of domesticity. I actually enjoyed this one a little more than its … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Camilla Lackberg, Sweden | 5 Comments

Review: The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg

Posted on April 22, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

THE DROWNING is the sixth book depicting life and death in Fjällbacka, Sweden’s answer to Cabot Cove or the villages of Midsomer. Its prologue features a description of a man’s death and the story proper then opens with police detective Patrik Hedström and … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Camilla Lackberg, Sweden | 19 Comments

Review: THE HIDDEN CHILD by Camilla Lackberg

Posted on January 30, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

THE HIDDEN CHILD is the fifth book centred around the summer tourist town of Fjallbacka on the west coast of Sweden featuring police detective Patrik Hedstrom and his true-crime writing wife Erica Falck. In this outing Patrik is starting paternity leave to … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Camilla Lackberg, Sweden | 15 Comments

Books of the Month – October 2011

Posted on November 3, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

I didn’t manage a lot of reviewing in October but was lucky enough to have a couple of 5-star reads which means Book of the month is a difficult choice so I’m not going to make it. Tom Franklin‘s Crooked Letter, Crooked … Continue reading →

Posted in Alice LaPlante, Arnaldur Indriðason, Barry Maitland (Aus), books of the month, Camilla Lackberg, Carolyn Morwood (Aus), Dan Waddell, Daphne Du Maurier, Denise Mina, John Lawton, Jussi Adler-Olsen, list, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Nicole Watson (Aus), Ruth Rendell, S J Bolton, Tom Franklin, Yrsa Sigurdardottir | 9 Comments

Maximum reading: minimum reviewing

Posted on October 30, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

The main prompt for me to start this blog was to write down my thoughts about the books I read so that my future self would be a little less ignorant about my reading than I had been in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arnaldur Indriðason, Camilla Lackberg, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, mini review, S J Bolton, Yrsa Sigurdardottir | 21 Comments

Books of the Month – August 2011

Posted on September 1, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

August wasn’t a good month for my reading, at least numerically. I only finished 8 books for the month and I normally make it well into double digits 😦 Generally reading is my ‘go-to’ form of relaxation but for the … Continue reading →

Posted in books of the month, Camilla Lackberg, Geoffrey McGeachin (Aus), Kel Robertson (Aus), list, Simon Beckett, Stan Jones, Thomas Enger | 8 Comments

Review: The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg

Posted on August 2, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

Patrik Hedström and his partner Erica Falck have a 2 month old daughter Maya and neither of them are getting much rest. Patrik at least gets to escape to office but Erica feels trapped, especially with Patrik’s judgemental and domineering … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Camilla Lackberg, Nordic Challenge 2011, Sweden | 15 Comments

Review: The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg

Posted on May 15, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

In the second of what is now 8 books (though only 4 translated to English so far) we return to the summer resort town of Fjällbacka in Sweden. Writer Erica Falck and her partner, policeman Patrik Hedström, are enjoying a … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Camilla Lackberg, Nordic Challenge 2011, Sweden | 15 Comments

Books of the Month – July 2010

Posted on August 1, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

That was Then July was a month of reading highs and lows for me. Undoubtedly my favourite book for the month (and the year so far) was Adrian Hyland’s Gunshot Road. I know I have become a bit of a broken … Continue reading →

Posted in Adrian Hyland (Aus), books of the month, Camilla Lackberg, Deon Meyer, Domingo Villar, Henning Mankell, Ian Rankin, Teresa Solana | 15 Comments