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2010:1

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Issue number: 2010:1

2010:1

Crime fiction special

Editor: Sarah Death / Deputy Editor: Neil Smith

 

(Image:  Mirroring mountains in Lake Ladtjojaure. © Fredrik Broman/imagebank.sweden.se)

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Edited and compiled by Henning Koch

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REVIEW

De oförglömliga

Gabriella Ahlström's first novel for adults is unlike other popular contemporary Swedish books in its focus on character over plot, and readers can appreciate its minutely detailed portrait of a woman who is constantly disappointed by her family and aware of their many faults and yet remains faithful and devoted to them.

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Toffs bok

Kalle Dixelius offers a modern version of our very oldest stories: a young man living in poor conditions feels a strong inner urge to embark on a dangerous and often life-threatening quest in search of a deeper meaning in life.

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Mordets praktik

Kerstin Ekman’s first-person narrator, a down-at-heel physician, follows up on a chance encounter with the writer Hjalmar Söderberg by providing him with information on potassium cyanide pills as an instrument of death...