After reading The Millennium Series I had felt I want to read something similar so I started looking for new books and I discovered The Black Series (Czarna Seria) - it's series created by polish publishing house which gathers together different authors. It's over 60 books so a lot of reading. I decided to go by authors and I started with Camilla Lackberg because I heard her books are really good and entertaining. Lackberg wrote (for now) 9 crime stories, she's sometimes called the Swedish Agatha Christie.
The plot is always set in Fjällbacka (author's home town). The main caracter is Erika Falck who is a very curious writer and who likes discovering mysterious incidents that happends in Fjällbacka. Erika helps the police to resolve murder cases and she marries policeman Patrik Hedström. It's a couple that lives for finding solutions to murder cases, Partik is doing that professionally and officially and Erika helps him off the record and at the same time she gathers material for her new books...
These books are good written, with rich descriptions and interesting ideas. The solutions at the end of books are not obvious so it keeps reader reading as Lackberg wanted ;)
Watch short interview ;)
Hmmm... Maby after our exams I will read some books of this Swedish Agatha Christie. ;)
ReplyDeleteDon't believe Ania. She won't. She will read TWILIGHT. AGAIN.
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From what you're saying here it seems a little less gloomy than Larsson's books or Wallander. Is it?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is, probably because of subplots concerning Erika's real life (marrige, kids, troubles with mother in law, etc.)
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