Tag Archives: Orenda Books
Chilled to the Bone – #NordicNoir at the Capital Crime Festival by guest blogger Ewa Sherman
The inaugural Capital Crime Festival took place on the last weekend in September 2019. It featured leading crime and thriller authors, encompassing a variety of styles and subjects, providing snapshots of the hugely popular genre. I volunteered for one day only and had a chance to attend a couple of panels, and of course I […]
Fermented Shark Optional – my experience at #IcelandNoir
In this article Tricia, a creative writing graduate, crime fiction fan and regular volunteer at Bloody Scotland, shares with us her experience of Iceland Noir. Thank you Tricia! It’s not often in this life that you get to achieve a long-held dream and even rarer when you get to do it in the company of […]
Killed by Thomas Enger #bookreview
Last weekend at Granite Noir, a crime writing festival in Aberdeen, Norwegian author Thomas Enger officially launched Killed. I want to share with you the satisfaction of reading the fifth and final book in the Henning Juul series, a Norwegian best seller. Henning Juul, a journalist, is driven to discover why his son died. He […]
Wolves in the Dark by Gunnar Staalesen #bookgiveaway #giveaway
Dear Varg Your lawyer told me that you have been arrested and are being held in prison for something unimaginable. I hope this letter gets to you eventually. I can’t believe that they would think you have anything to do with a child pornography ring. You are a former social worker. Are they mad? Who […]
The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto
‘Many times during the course of his life he had wondered what was ultimately true and what was false. What was reality and what merely illusion, and how much of it was nothing but a web of words and thoughts in our own brains, a tapestry of our own making.’ (The Exiled, p.177) Our protagonist […]
Blackout by Ragnar Jonasson
‘There had been no preconceptions about Iceland in her mind; the only things about which she had been certain were that it would be cold, probably snowy, and it might be dark’ Blackout, Chapter 13, Ragnar Jonasson We have been following author Ragnar Jonasson‘s writing career with interest as his books are translated from Icelandic […]
*Giveaway* Where Roses Never Die – An addiction to crime fiction
Are you the kind of reader who gets addicted to a series of books? I was addicted to Ian Rankin’s Rebus books. I so looked forward to the next book coming out, wondered what music Rebus would be listening to, where his work would take him, if he had changed his SAAB, how much he […]
Stop Press! TV rights for Ragnar Jonasson’s Dark Iceland Series sold to UK production company
Nordic Noir just received this press release. Hopefully we will see more of Iceland on our TV screens: Orenda Books is delighted to announce that On the Corner, the UK production company responsible for the Academy Award-winning Amy, has acquired the TV rights for Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series. The deal was negotiated by Luke […]
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