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Mons Kallentoft

Mons Kallentoft
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Mons Kallentoft

After being awarded one of Sweden’s highest literary awards for his debut novel Pesetas, Mons Kallentoft chose to give his own unique take on the classic Scandinavian crime novel. His success was immediate. The first book in the series about superintendent Malin Fors received unanimous praise from the national critics; it also conquered the bestseller charts and has today sold more than 300,000 copies in Sweden alone.

Midwinter Blood will be released on June 05, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
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Irish Times, May 11, 2012
...Nesb? are well served, Forshaw doesn't neglect lesser-known authors, such as Jorn Lier Horst, Sara Blaedel and Mons Kallentoft. Declan Burke is a journalist and author. His most recent novel is Absolute Zero Cool (Liberties Press) Listings must be sent...
WA Today, April 20, 2012
...be under-analysed and rarely convincing. And it certainly doesn't help when he says a novel by Swede Mons Kallentoft reads ''like a crossbreed between Hunter S. Thompson, A.A. Gill, Paul Theroux and Anthony Bourdain'' or that Norwegian Gunnar Staalsen is...
The Independent, March 15, 2012
...is somehow always surprising us. Some readers may have problems with a device recently used by Swedish writer Mons Kallentoft – narrative passages delivered by a dead man – but any reservations are brushed aside by the sheer sweep of the...
Otago Daily Times, February 10, 2012
...previously untranslated authors to make it on to the shelves of a much wider readership. Midwinter Sacrifice, by Mons Kallentoft (Hodder & Stoughton), makes such a claim. The book is recommended by this reviewer and it stands on its own. A close-knit...
Bookseller, January 5, 2012
...Cold Season by Alison Littlewood (Jo Fletcher Books), The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (Virago), Midwinter Sacrifice by Mons Kallentoft (Hodder & Stoughton) and Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (Michael Joseph). All the titles are available now, with the...
Scottish Daily Express, January 4, 2012
...For details on how to access unique extras go to www. whsmith.co.uk/richardandjudy SPRING CHOICESMIDWINTER SACRIFICE by Mons Kallentoft Judy: This gripping Scandinavian thriller follows a detective as she solves a murder. It is tense, dark and...
Irish Times, December 30, 2011
...Indridason's Black Skies (Harvill Secker, June). Those in search of the new Sarah Lund should check out Mons Kallentoft's Summertime Death (Hodder, May) and Asa Larsson's The Black Path (Quercus, March); there are dark deeds on the island of Gotland in...
Otago Daily Times, February 10, 2012
...previously untranslated authors to make it on to the shelves of a much wider readership. Midwinter Sacrifice, by Mons Kallentoft (Hodder & Stoughton), makes such a claim. The book is recommended by this reviewer and it stands on its own. A close-knit...