Death of the Demon
Book review Christine Foster Meloni Washington While Jo Nesbø is usually considered the undisputed King of the Norwegian crime novel, Anne Holt and Karin Fossum are serious contenders for the female crown. Nesbø himself...
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Åsne Seierstad’s new book studies radicals
Two Sisters Christine Foster Meloni Washington Norwegian author and war correspondent Åsne Seierstad is on a national book tour to promote her latest book, Two Sisters. She made a public presentation at Washington’s premier...
Ancient Scandinavia
Book review Terje Birkedal Anchorage, Alaska T. Douglas Price’s book, Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, is the first book in...
Letters home tell an immigrant’s story
Book review M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway Amerikabrev offers a new view of the great emigration from Norway, when from 1832 through 1930 more than 900,000 Norwegians left their homeland to live and work...
Norse goddesses cry, “Me too, Neil Gaiman!”
Book review Rebecca Snow Nine Mile Falls, Wash. As some readers and critics insist, Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology stories might be best appreciated via the audiobook, in the voice of Gaiman himself. They began...
History of mystery
Did Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö forever change the crime genre? You be the judge Doug Warne KKNW Scandinavian Hour I enjoy a good crime story set in Scandinavia, and currently the head of...
The chronicle of a condemned man
A Norwegian penpal’s book about the Texas prisoner she came to know over 10 years M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway An early 1993 Amnesty International Norwegian branch member news bulletin included an appeal that...
You can’t go wrong with a Jørn Lier Horst novel
Påskekrim Christine Foster Meloni Washington Jørn Lier Horst is one of Norway’s best crime writers. Why not choose one of his novels for your Easter thriller this year? Not only are his novels well...
Beyond the Truth
Book review Thor A. Larsen Fishkill, N.Y. When I am looking to read a fast-moving modern mystery in a Norwegian setting, with very little if any violence, I turn to Anne Holt. Since 1993,...
A mystery på Norsk
Tårer fra en tapt tid weaves two realities John Erik Stacy The Norwegian American What if, one day, your daily grind was interrupted by emotions and images from another life? In Tårer fra en...
