Crime Fiction Club Autumn Season 2026

1. Meeting Thu 6.8. 15-17. Crime novel: Anu Patrakka: The Admirer, 2025 (271p.) "Detective Nelson Monteiro series part 3 takes the reader on a captivating journey to Lisbon's fado restaurants. The crimes stretch back to the time of the Carnation Revolution".

2. Thu 20.8. 15-17. Crime novel: Barbara Nadel: Arabesque, 2011 (335p.)

"Nadel offers vivid character portrayal and strong local color from Turkish society and its multilayered culture. Here Mehmet Suleyman investigates the murder of an arabesque singer's wife".

3. Thu 3.9. 15-17. Crime novel: Johan Theorin: The Hour of the Lynx, 2008 (429p.)

"The author's debut novel. Set on the island of Öland in Sweden. The protagonist is over 80-year-old Gerlof Davidson, a retired sea captain, who after 20 years resumes the search for his grandson together with the boy's mother Julian, when a new lead emerges." "The book is a reading experience that stays with you".

4. Thu 17.9. 15-17. Crime novel: Peter James: The Dead Man's Face, 2025 (416p.+maps) "Detective Roy Grace investigates whether a dead man can be a killer? James's books are fast-paced, full of unexpected plot twists, menacing characters and accurate depictions of modern police work".

5. Thu 1.10. 15-17. Crime novel: Donna Leon: A Moment of Intoxication, 2023 (319p.)

"Commissario Guido Brunetti investigations, no. 30, in Venice".

6. Thu 15.10. 15-17. Crime novel: Aamos Honka: The Red Network, 2025 (489p.) "An insider's thriller from the intelligence world reveals the hidden core of hybrid operations".

7. Thu 29.10. 15-17. Crime novel: Fred Vargas: The Shadow Walkers, 2025 (478p.)

"Commissaire Adamsberg investigations, part 10. Adamsberg investigates crimes in a Breton village in France". "Author Vargas is also an archaeologist and historian".

8. Thu 12.11. 15-17. Crime novel: Laura Andersson: Death in Kulosaari, 2022 (415p.) "Lili Loimola as a private detective. The opening of a feel-good crime series, set against post-war Helsinki in the 1940s".

9. Thu 26.11. 15-17. Crime novel: Sofie Sarenbrant: The Corner of Shame, 2021 (445p.)