WHAT is the alure of the Scandanavian literary noir, that genre of crime writing that has served up a smorgasbord of tough, cynical characters and bleak settings?
Jo Nesbo has provided us with Harry Hole while Stieg Larsson's Girl with a Dragon Tatoo is imbued with great psychological intrigue.
Little wonder that one in four Norweigans picks up a book each day.
Now we have literary debutante Stina Jackson who was born and raised in Skellefteå, northern Sweden and though she now lives in Denver, Colorado her first novel The Silver Road has all the ambiance of pure Scandanavian suspense
The initial read does not suggest a central hero figure but has as its premise a father's search for a daughter missing after he left her at a bus stop three years ago and non-functional mother-daughter duo lured away to a new home through an internet search site.
Enough in these opening 34 pages to be tempted by a smorgasbord of Scandanavian angst and suspense.
Jo Nesbo has provided us with Harry Hole while Stieg Larsson's Girl with a Dragon Tatoo is imbued with great psychological intrigue.
Little wonder that one in four Norweigans picks up a book each day.
Now we have literary debutante Stina Jackson who was born and raised in Skellefteå, northern Sweden and though she now lives in Denver, Colorado her first novel The Silver Road has all the ambiance of pure Scandanavian suspense
The initial read does not suggest a central hero figure but has as its premise a father's search for a daughter missing after he left her at a bus stop three years ago and non-functional mother-daughter duo lured away to a new home through an internet search site.
Enough in these opening 34 pages to be tempted by a smorgasbord of Scandanavian angst and suspense.