Two #review entries for the end of the week. Very different books:

One True Word, Snæbjörn Arngrímsson https://tinyl.co/4ROT

and

Bang!, Taliyah Stone https://tinyl.co/4ROW

#Books
#CrimeFiction
#AusCrime
#ScandiNoir

@bookstodon

Apologies for social silence of late: too busy with stuff and health stuff and other stuff and so forth … stuff it. 😬🙄😂

Recent news about the new cross-border bridge has prompted me to pop up and suggest that this is a ***FAB*** opportunity for #Canada to assert our #Arctic #Sovereignty by producing our first-ever #ScandiNoir series set on OUR bridge!

#ColmFeori for the lead detective, perhaps?

#TheBridge
#Broen
#CdnPoli
#USpoli
#GordieHoweInternationalBridge
#border
#BorderCrossing
#ON
#MI
#DGC
#IATSE
#ACTRA
#Teamsters
#WGC
#ICG
#television
#CanCon
#CRTC

Watching The Åre Murders.

On episode 3 and enjoying it so far...

#scandinoir

Faceless Killers (Swedish: Mördare utan ansikte) is a 1991 crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series. The English translation by Steven T. Murray was published in 1997. - Wikipedia

The first Wallander and appropriately enough, my first. Tremendously enjoyed this Scandi noir and will read the rest of the series which I have on my shelves in the near future. In the process of following the solving of the brutal murders in this novel I have become far more familiar with the geography of Skåne County. Malmö is the only place I have visited in that area; I swam in the Öresund.

#wallander #henningmankell #scandinoir #Skåne

The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image.

The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras.

A parade of people – members of motorcycle gangs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, real-estate barons, politicians – trooped through to recount their sins to Amira Smajic.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250327-the-real-scandi-noir-how-a-filmmaker-and-a-crooked-lawyer-shattered-denmarks-self-image?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Denmark #Documentary #Corruption #Fraud #TaxEvasion #MoneyLaundering #Crime #ScandiNoir #Legal #Longread

The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self-image.

The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras.

A parade of people – members of motorcycle gangs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, real-estate barons, politicians – trooped through to recount their sins to Amira Smajic.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250327-the-real-scandi-noir-how-a-filmmaker-and-a-crooked-lawyer-shattered-denmarks-self-image?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Denmark #Documentary #Corruption #Fraud #TaxEvasion #MoneyLaundering #Crime #ScandiNoir #Legal #Longread