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Title: A Darker Shade

Author: Various Authors

Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister, Mike Grady

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-14

Publisher: Lamplight

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Original Swedish crime stories from the masters of Nordic noir, including a never-before-published short story by Stieg Larsson. Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of Swedish crime writing, listeners have devoured this dark and compelling genre. Now the nation's best crime writers have been brought together to form the first-ever anthology of Swedish crime.

Critic Reviews:

"An entertaining collection with an imaginative story from Stieg Larsson ... demonstrates the depth of the Swedish crime pool" (The Times)

"Gripping... these unsettling dark tales reaffirm the dominance of Swedish writers with original crime fiction" (Sun)

Members Reviews:

A good collection of Swedish crime stories

If you have not yet started to read Swedish crime novels and would like an overview of what is out there before buying individual authors' books, this is a good place to start. Authors already well-known in the United States as well as authors mostly known in Sweden or Europe are represented. The editor has written an excellent summary of the history of Swedish crime writing during the past 100 years and how the modern authors follow this tradition.

enjoying Swedish crime fiction

Ever since "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and "Wallander", readers and viewers have been looking to Sweden for more "new" (to us) voices, new characters, and new settings in this idealized and still foreign land. (I've visited Sweden three times, and sometimes I think I should emigrate.) This place and their culture are at once familiar and strange, like a parallel world. These authors may not have written for their new global audience, but they have reached us. And now we have this sampler, and now we can hope for more.

Exquisite candies in a gift-wrapped box

What types of high crimes and misdemeanors could possibly be found in a peaceful, free, modern, progressive-thinking, open society, such as that of Sweden, which boasts an excellent standard of living and universal health-care for its citizens, as well? All kinds, as it turns out, if one judges by the diverse collection of crime-fiction stories included in the book, A Darker Shade of Sweden, presented by John-Henri Holmberg.

In many of the stories, extremely well-written either by expert authorities in the field of criminology or by world-renowned, award-winning literary giants, things seem to "go to hell in a hand-basket" in a hurry, so to speak. If the perpetrators were brought to justice in a court-room setting, lawyers for the defense might well make the argument that government, religion, society, culture--even the weather was at fault. Mental illness, duress, or instability could have been a deciding or mitigating factor. And of course the prosecutors would have a field day gathering evidence. In any event, the stories are fairly representative in similarity to programming segments which you might have seen on any night of the week on any evening news channel in the United States; or on the late-night news, if the details were too excruciatingly gruesome, gory or otherwise beyond the dramatically sensationalized media material suitable for prime time. Most are of local news caliber; some, national in scope.