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Crime thru time
Do you just love reading historical mysteries? If so, we have found the website for you! Crime thru time is a website dedicated to readers who enjoy their mysteries set somewhere back in time (think P C Doherty, Alys Clare, Umberto Eco, Edward Marston, Anne Perry, Tom Rob Smith). On the website you will find all sorts of inspiration for what to read next, including lists of authors and lists of titles arranged in a timeline through history. So if you are feeling in the mood for reading a mystery set in the thirteenth century, you can look up the timeline and find something suitable.
Scandinavian noir in the spotlight again
With the upcoming release of the English-language film version of The girl with the dragon tattoo, interest in the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy books has rekindled. The massive success of Larsson's books over the past four years has sparked a worldwide surge in the popularity of "Scandinavian noir", and has given English-language readers access to a huge range of previously unheard-of authors from countries such as Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
