Portrait: Camilla Läckberg

If it’s a mystery why a country as sedate as Sweden has spawned such a crop of world-beating crime writers, then the plot really thickens with a visit to Fjällbacka. Camilla Läckberg outsells Stieg Larsson in her native Sweden. Susie Mesure joins the fanclub

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Rezension: Camilla Läckberg: “Der Leuchtturmwärter”

Die erfolgreichste Schriftstellerin Schwedens heißt Camilla Läckberg. Sie hat das Dorf Fjällbacka weltberühmt gemacht. In dem westschwedischen Kaff wird gemordet wie sonst nur in Mankells Ystad.

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Rezension: Camilla Läckberg: “Meerjungfrau”

Fjällbacka ist eigentlich ein idyllischer Ort an der schwedischen Westküste. Gut 850 Einwohner, schöne alte Holzhäuser – schon Ingrid Bergman hat hier Ferien gemacht. Aber in Fjällbacka wohnt auch das Böse.

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Kolumne: New in crime fiction: The latest thrillers and mysteries

This time: Mark Billingham: “Good as Dead”, Scott Thornley: “The Ambitious City” , Gail Bowen: “Kaleidoscope”, Liza Marklund: “Vanished”, Thomas Perry: “Poison Flower”, Nicci French: “Blue Monday”, Camilla Lackberg: “The Drowning” and more.

Rezension: Camilla Lackberg: “The Stonecutter”

It’s got to be something in the fjord water. Or maybe lingonberries are an unacknowledged superfood. How else to explain all the superlative Swedish crime writers who have swarmed into the mystery arena since the mid-1960s?

Rezension: Camilla Läckberg: “The Preacher”

Warning to readers: This gripping, unsettling thriller may call for a little extra work on your part. The author, Camilla Lackberg, likes to shift suddenly, sometimes a bit confusingly, from one set of dramatis personae to another.

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Porträt: Camilla Läckberg

When Swedish crime novelist Camilla Lackberg was 16, she came across an old photograph album of her father’s. It was shocking. There were pictures of Jens Lackberg as a young man with a wife and infant child. She knew he had a prior marriage but this was a mystery.

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Artikel: New in crime fiction: A guide to the latest releases

Kurzbesprechungen zu folgenden Krimis: Laura Lippman: “The Most Dangerous Thing”, Kathy Reichs: “Flesh and Bones”, Juan Gomez-Jurado: “The Traitor’s Emblem”, Camilla Läckberg: “The Hidden Child”, Cheryl Crane: “The Bad Always Dies Twice”, M. L. Longworth: “Death at the Chateau Bremont”.