A Treat for the Festive Season: Win Martin Holmén’s Stockholm Trilogy!
It’s the festive season and, with the help of the good folks at Pushkin Press, we want to offer our readers an extra treat: the chance to win all three novels in Martin Holmén’s brilliant Stockholm Trilogy! Each novel in this gritty, captivating noir series set in the 1930s in Stockholm reads as a stand-alone story, though one of the ...
Slugger – Martin Holmén
‘Slugger’, the final novel in Martin Holmén’s Stockholm trilogy, set in the 1930s and featuring former boxer turned debt-collector Harry Kvist, fully lives up to the high expectations set by the first two, ‘Clinch’ and ‘Down for the Count’. Kvist prides himself in never having gone down for a count in a brief boxing career ...
Down for the Count – Martin Holmén
‘Down for the Count’ is the second novel in the Stockholm trilogy by Martin Holmén. Like the first, ‘Clinch’, it’s a well-crafted noir that doesn’t pull its punches, hitting you in the guts with stark surprises and with a setting, 1930s Sweden, which is quite far in time yet disturbingly familiar. Stockholm, November 1935: Harry Kvist, ...
Clinch – Martin Holmén
‘Clinch’, the debut crime novel by Swedish author Martin Holmén, does exactly what it says on the tin, and does it very well. Right from the outset it grips you in a fierce embrace, and doesn’t let go. It gets personal, goes deep, and isn’t ashamed of its raw edges. It’s also highly original, a ...
