There are few characters that can match the fame of Agatha Christie’s iconic Jane Marple – best known as “Miss Marple” – in the world of detective fiction. For many people, the elderly citizen living in the sleepy village of St. Mary Mead, is every bit as amazing as her creator’s other great detective, Hercule…
Stieg Larsson might have made thriller lovers turn their attention to the Scandinavian region with his ‘Millennium Series’ but he certainly is not the only author to have come from thence (and unfortunately wrote only three major titles). Indeed Sweden, Norway and Finland have produced a fair crop of thriller writers, many of them as…