{"id":3479,"date":"2009-06-10T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2009-06-02T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T20:11:35","slug":"scandinavian-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/scandinavian-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandinavian Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3481\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/woman-with-birthmark.jpg?resize=258%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"woman-with-birthmark\" width=\"258\" height=\"233\" \/>If you liked the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/wallander\/series1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inspector Wallender programs<\/a><\/strong> on PBS Masterpiece Mystery (the DVD is coming out next month!) immerse yourself in another Swedish police procedural.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2121076\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Woman with Birthmark<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Hakan Nesser stars an\u00a0extremely cranky Chief Inspector Van Veeteren. This time he is placed in charge of an investigation into a series of homicides. Men are shot at close range above (and below) the belt. The reader knows who the killer is, but not the motivation. Nesser is a master at creating an atmosphere of tension and subtle dread. The violence and dialogue is never overstated and is all the more effective for that.<\/p>\n<p>Both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|1608814\" target=\"_blank\">Henning Mankell<\/a><\/strong> (author of the Kurt Wallender mysteries) and Nesser illustrate why the mysteries of Sweden, Iceland, and Norway are so popular right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you liked the Inspector Wallender programs on PBS Masterpiece Mystery (the DVD is coming out next month!) immerse yourself in another Swedish police procedural. Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser stars an\u00a0extremely cranky Chief Inspector Van Veeteren. This time he is placed in charge of an investigation into a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/scandinavian-mystery\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[638,130,636,637],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-murder-mystery","tag-scandinavia","tag-scandinavian-mysteries","tag-swedish-mysteries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-U7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}