City of Light
Kerstin Ekman
Ann-Marie is a middle-aged woman returning from Portugal to the Swedish town in which she grep up in order to sell the old house she has inherited from her father. Memories of the past are everywhere, ensnaring her. She ends up staying in the house,…
The Angel House
Kerstin Ekman
At the windy corner of Highway Street and Industrial Road, opposite the Co-operative Stores, stood a lime tree and a large old wooden building. There was a newspaper kiosk too, to be strictly accurate. The lime tree and the building used to talk to o…
The Practice of Murder
Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Ekman, former member of the Swedish Academy and one of Sweden’s greatest living crime writers’ latest collection of essays, The Practice of Murder, is a meditation on unresolved issues in the classic Swedish novel, Söderberg’s Doctor Glas. St…
Barin’s Triangle
Håkan Nesser
Barin’s triangle is the irregular trilogy about three men:– a translator hunting his wife who has disappeared – and the hidden message in a manuscript left by a writer who has recently died.– a moonlighting psychiatrist with a new client who tells an…
The Comforter
Karin Wahlberg
The Masters in the Woods
Kerstin Ekman
The forest is a central theme in many of Kerstin Ekman’s novels. There is, for instance, The forest of hours, Dödsklockan [The Death Clock], which is set during moose hunting season, as well as Vargskinnet [The Wolf Skin], which treats the subject of…
Markings
Dag Hammarskjöld
After Dag Hammarskjöld’s death in September of 1961, a manuscript was found at his residence in New York. It was entitled Markings. In an enclosed letter he called the notes for “a kind of ‘white paper’ concerning my negotiations with myself – and wi…
