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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Book)
On the Cover Book 1 of the Millenium Triology. The Industrialist Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger Corporation, is tormented by the loss of a child decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family has committed murder. The Journalist Mikael Bolmkvist delves deep into the Vanger’s past to uncover the truth behind the unsolves mystery. But someone else wants the past to...

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Steig Larsson is now recognised as a great Swedish author with a very popular trilogy of books that have sold countless millions and been filmed by his home country and now in the process of being remade by Hollywood. Sadly Larsson died unexpectantly in 2004 after delivering the initial manuscripts for what has been titled The Millenium Trilogy and thus never got...
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Nine Dragons (Book)
What it says on the cover: One thing you can say for the Triads: they know the importance of family. And they’re about to teach Harry Bosch a lesson. When Detective Harry Bosch catches the case of a gunned-down liquor =-store owner in downtown LA, it looks like a slam-dunk. The eldery Chinese man’s customers included plenty of gangbangers, and it just seemed like one day his luck ran out....

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What a great read! I find this book, the latest in the Harry Bosch series, a compelling read. Although I was very busy with work there was enough time to keep up with this fast paced hunt for the killer, and the consequent hunt for his daughter. To read other reviews of this authors work search Ichael Connelly Harry Bosch started in his usual thorough approach to crime solving and his...
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Nemesis (Book)
What it says on the cover: Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to the cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole, still mourning the death of his police partner, is assigned to the case. While his girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch but when he...

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I enjoyed this book. It was well translated and I don't recall any strange use of English at all. Several stories are intertwined and I didn't guess who did what. The story had a good pace and was set in Oslo (Norway) and was similar to the books of Henning Mankell, being a police detective procedural. Characters are well defined and the task of the police well described. Characters were...
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Unspoken (Book)
On the Cover: Winter should be a quiet time on the holiday island of Gotland. But two crimes shatter the peace for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas. The first body found is Henry Dahistrom, an alchoholic photographer. He had just had a spectacular success at the races, winning eigthy thousand krona when his horse came home in the fifth race of the day. The next morning his body, badly beated,...

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Gotland is a small part of Sweden. I get the impression that not a lot goes on there. Not enough murders to generate a long series of mysteries. Although that didn't stop Oxford being the location for the excellent Inspector Morse books. I found 'Unspoken' easy enough to read with few  unusual translations. The story had a good pace, albeit rather straightforward. It seemed that clues would...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Book)
The cover says: The Expose – Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry The Murder - When a young couple are found dead in their Stokholm apartment, it’s...

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A great story, the second in the Millennium trilogy. I found the translation from the original Swedish brilliantly combining pace with detail. As this is the first of the three books read I am not able to say whether reading the books in order makes a significant difference. Such is the attention to detail that it contains a shopping list from IKEA used by the complex, flawed yet morally sound...
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The Pyramid (Book)
On the Cover: When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him;he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to...

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Another great read from the master of the detective genre. I was delighted when I found this book, as I had thought that I had read the complete set of the Kurt Wallander series. I’m not sure that I learnt much about the developing Wallander that I didn’t know before, as Mankell is so good at filling in the back history in his books. I felt that I already knew about Mona, his father and his...
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The Reapers (Book)
What it says on the cover They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town that no longer exists on a map. A town ruled by a man with very personal...

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I enjoyed this book, more for its sharp one liners, than for Connolly’s menacing and chilling atmosphere of previous books. For example: ‘He (The Priest) had studied at an Orthodox seminary for 3 years before discovering his true vocation, which lay primarily in providing the kinds of services for which priests are usually required to offer forgiveness.’ The story is about survival but...
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Double Cross (Book)
What it says on the cover A PSYCHOTIC KILLER WHO CRAVES AN AUDIENCE Just when Alex Cross’s life is calming down, he’s drawn back into the game to confront the Audience Killer – a terrifying genius who stages his killings as public spectacles in Washington DC and broadcasts them live on the net. AND A MURDERING MASTERMIND WHO WORKS ALONE In Colorado, another criminal mastermind is planning...

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The latest instalment in the Alex Cross series. This was better than its predecessor "Cross" (which was more of a soap opera about Cross' family), but still not as good as the earlier Cross books. As usual, a fast paced read with some twists and turns on the way. If only Patterson could stop using the "Is he coming here? To kill me?" italics at the end of chapters then the book would be at least a...