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Scandinavian Crime Fiction
This collection of articles studies the development of crime fiction in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since the 1960s, offering the first English-language study of this widely read and influential form. Since the first Martin-Beck novel of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö appeared in 1965, the socially-critical crime novel has figured prominently in Scandinavian culture, and found hundreds of millions of readers outside Scandinavia. But is there truly a Scandinavian crime novel tradition? Scandinavian Crime Fiction identifies distinct features and changes in the Scandinavian crime tradition through analysis of some of its most well-known writers: Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, A...
Death Awaits Thee
Puck Bure's meeting with Paul Sandwall in Stockholm is opportune. As the new manager of Drottningholm Palace Theatre, the historic eighteenth century Opera house on the outskirts of the city, he plans to open the season with a performance of Cosi fan tutte. Not only is Mozart's opera to be staged as a climax to the city's summer arts festival, but two celebrities - Danish prima donna Teresa Monrad and her ex- husband, world-famous conductor Prof. Matthew Lemming - are to take part. Tensions behind the scenes revolve around the beautiful yet volatile prima donna and when a macabre murder is committed, puck is drawn into the police investigation. A Swedish crime fiction classic and part of the inspiration behind the new BBC4 drama Crime of Passion.
The Crimson Fairy Book
Folkeeventyr hovedsaglig fra de slaviske lande
The Unforgotten Sisters
Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to “my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science”, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians. Each of the presented biographies is organized as a kind of "personal file" which sets the biographee’s life in its historical context, documents her main works, highlights some curious facts, and records citations about her. The selected figures are among the most representative of this neglected world, including such luminaries as Hypatia of Alexandra, Hildegard of Bingen, Elisab...
Death Awaits Thee
Puck Bure's meeting with Paul Sandwall in Stockholm is opportune. As the new manager of Drottningholm Palace Theatre, the historic eighteenth century Opera house on the outskirts of the city, he plans to open the season with a performance of Cosi fan tutte. Not only is Mozart's opera to be staged as a climax to the city's summer arts festival, but two celebrities - Danish prima donna Teresa Monrad and her ex- husband, world-famous conductor Prof. Matthew Lemming - are to take part. Tensions behind the scenes revolve around the beautiful yet volatile prima donna and when a macabre murder is committed, puck is drawn into the police investigation. A Swedish crime fiction classic and part of the inspiration behind the new BBC4 drama Crime of Passion.
31 Murders
Many decades before Ted Bundy roamed the country there was serial killer Earle Nelson. During the 1920s, this geographically mobile killer went from city to city. His modus operandi involved getting into a house by pretending to be a person looking for a room to rent or inspecting a house that was for sale, and then strangling the landlady, often followed by having sex with the dead body. Robbery was frequently a secondary motive. After Nelson was captured in Canada in 1927, it was commonly reported that he had killed 21 women and a baby during the 1926-27 period. But were these the only cases linked to him? The author examines an additional nine unsolved murders of landladies, two of which have never been dealt with in previous literature. Based on decades of archival research, the author examines all 31 murders, relying on primary sources when available and a wide variety of secondary sources. For each murder, the book provides biographical sketches of the victim, outlines the police investigation and the various suspects, and covers any subsequent attempts to link Nelson to the crime by identification evidence of witnesses or by fingerprints.
CyVire
The game, CyVire, is more than that. It is a means of survival, a new way of life. Living on the boundary of reality and technology, CyVire's truth remains hidden to the conscious world believed to be nothing more than an online game. It's the hidden truth of CyVire that gives new strength to Ashley as she reclaims the life that was drained from her and faces the challenges of combining tradition and technology to redefine the vampire. Compelled by instinct and the unforgotten mortal emotion of love, Ashley finds herself struggling for the existence of her binding vampyric mate Clay. The evolution of this mythic creature comes from the improbable aid of Dr. Lang, a broken spirited geneticist and his enigmatic counterpart, a youthful prodigy who hides behind Gothic pop culture. Together they recreate the future of the vampire with Nanomite technology and an online gaming arena called CyVire. CyVire evolves into more than a game; it develops into a hunting ground, a way of life and an afterlife for Ashley's victims. It also gives rise to Ashley's worst nemesis and is where she will ultimately have to defend everything she has gained.
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