Maybe you’d never fallen in love in your life, and one day your sister gave you a book with the people of the world in it. You looked through all the people and were fascinated by a girl on a page, a girl from a faraway exotic land. She was like nothing you’d ever seen [...]

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Another gem from the NWOSCF (New Wave of Scandinavian Crime Fiction) comes to us in The Water’s Edge by talented authoress Karin Fossum. Her writing is sparse, like aspen trees overlooking a volcanic valley in Iceland, but her intent couldn’t be clearer. A couple out for a walk in the woods comes across the desecrated [...]

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I moved at the end of the previous month and this put a dent in the reading schedule. As everyone knows, moving can be tedious and painful, not to mention disruptive to your normal routine. But what better way to get back into it than with a good book and few are better than the [...]

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