Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Scandinavian Crime Queen - Camilla Lackberg - at the Auckland Writers Festival
Swedish crime-writing sensation Camilla Lackberg has sold twelve million books and is up there with Stieg Larsson in the Scandi-noir pantheon.
She is interested, she says, in “just how horrible people can be”.
On Saturday afternoon she joined Napier criminal lawyer Jonathan Krebs in a packed ASB Theatre to consider crime-writing, and the techniques and writing practices she follows in producing her series featuring Detective Patrik Hedstrom and hisa wife, crime writer Eric Falck.
If you haven't read Lackberg yet and you like crime fiction then I warmly recommend her latest, Buried Angels, which runs to almost 500 pages and which I read in several long sittings last week.
The author was kindly brought to the Festival by her publishers HarperCollins.
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