{"id":8331,"date":"2010-09-20T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2010-09-09T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:19:18","slug":"more-great-scandinavian-intrigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/more-great-scandinavian-intrigue\/","title":{"rendered":"More Great Scandinavian Intrigue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you have already read Steig Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, The Girl who Played with Fire<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest<\/a><\/em>)<\/strong> and want to try a different type of\u00a0Swedish crime fiction, I would highly recommend Camilla L\u00e4ckberg’s first novel, The Ice Princess<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em><\/strong>set in the picturesque town of Fj\u00e4llbacka, Sweden.<\/p>\n

The Ice Princess<\/em><\/strong> centers around writer Erica Falck who returns to her hometown after the death of her parents in a car accident.\u00a0 Shortly after she arrives from Stockholm she happens to discover her childhood friend, Alexandra, who has died of an apparent suicide.\u00a0 Grieving for their daughter, Alexandra’s parents ask Erica to write an article about Alexandra for the local paper.\u00a0 While researching Alexandra’s death Erica runs into an old friend, Patrick, who is a police officer in town.\u00a0 The two discover many secrets about Fj\u00e4llbacka’s most prominent family whose\u00a0past\u00a0is intertwined with the death of Alexandra and\u00a0eventually learn\u00a0that her death may not have been at her own hand.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve also included a beautiful photo of Fj\u00e4llbacka, Sweden\u00a0which happens to be the hometown of a friend.\u00a0 She\u00a0snapped this photograph over the summer\u00a0(which was taken late in the evening).\u00a0 Since\u00a0L\u00e4ckberg is also a native of this fishing village,\u00a0she uses authentic\u00a0street names, landmarks, and other notable and unique features of the village, including Ingrid Bergman Square, named for the Swedish actress who spent a good amount of time in Fj\u00e4llbacka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have already read Steig Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) and want to try a different type of\u00a0Swedish crime fiction, I would highly recommend Camilla L\u00e4ckberg’s first novel, The Ice Princess,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[638,96,269],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-murder-mystery","tag-mysteries","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2an","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}