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«If you're looking for a new addiction, try [Clinch]... it's a tough thriller that packs a punch»
Daily Star on Sunday
It's summer in Stockholm, and the city is sweltering in the grip of a rare heatwave while fascists and communists beat each other bloody in the streets. Harry Kvist has had enough. It's time for him to leave. Les mer
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Kvist investigates the only way he knows how, with his fists, uncovering a Nazi terrorist plot and a cabal of corrupt cops. Before long he finds himself caught in the middle of a turf war between two of the city's most brutal gangs. Can he fight his way out of one last corner and find a way to freedom, or has Kvist finally taken a punch too many?
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pushkin Vertigo
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781782272199
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«If you're looking for a new addiction, try [Clinch]... it's a tough thriller that packs a punch»
Daily Star on Sunday
«A real tour de force... a fascinating race through 1930s Stockholm»
Kate Rhodes
«A clever plot woven into prose that depicts 1930s Stockholm in a detailed manner... it punches you in the face like one of Kvist's knockout blows. Definitely not for the faint-hearted»
Crime Scene
«A ferociously noir revelation of Stockholm between the wars... the sort of novel Chandler and Hammett would have written if they'd been permitted to include sex!»
Val McDermid, Sunday Times Crime Club
«Clinch is a fabulously classy twist on pulp fiction: it'll be a top-notch summer book for readers looking for something diverting but smart, as long as they don't mind a little blood and bonking»
Elle Thinks
«This is noir writing at its best and you won't want to give this book a miss if you are a fan of this genre»
The Bookbinder's Daughter (blog)
«A debut that rings of Chandler... Holmén has created a unique, equally idiosyncratic as remarkable, debut crime novel»
Boras Tidning
«Scandinavian Crime meets Film Noir, the crime novel of the year»
Alexander Bard
«A great read»
Expressen
«Brutally entertaining»
M-Magasin
«Holmén's sharp dialogue and unerring eye for the grim details of everyday life are still there, as in Clinch and Down for the Count, lending huge power to the story and adding a dimension that lifts this novel head and shoulders above the noir canon»
Thriller Books Journal
«Excellent series... gripping finale»
Crime Review
«Tragic and moving, with a spectacular denouement, it's a fitting ending to a superb trilogy»
Guardian
«An all-too-realistic thriller... a brilliant and disturbing read»
ArtsHub
«Holmén is an author on the cutting edge of an art form, pushing deeper into the myre opened up by Jean-Claude Izzo, Derek Raymond and Massimo Carlotto. There is something genuinely cathartic about this reading experience»
New Books Magazine
«A shocking, edge-of-the-seat read. Simply put - Wow. What a trilogy. What an ending. One of the best thrillers of the year.»
Crime Thriller Hound
«Praise for The Stockholm Trilogy:»
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«Sin City meets Raymond Chandler in this atmospheric and compulsive series»
Attitude
«A dark, atmospheric, powerful thriller, the best debut novel I've read in years»
Lynda La Plante
«Ferociously noir... If Chandler and Hammett had truly walked on the wild side, it would read like Clinch»
Val McDermid
«Holmén has Raymond Chandler's rare ability to evoke a character in a few deft strokes»
Mail on Sunday, best crime reads of 2016
«Gritty, stylish Scandinavian noir from one of Sweden's hottest emerging authors»
Booklover
«Atmospheric Scandi retro, but Chandleresque to its core»
The Sunday Times Crime Club
«Clinch is a gritty, stylish debut from a Swedish history teacher and in Kvist he has created a brutal anti-hero quite unlike any seen in crime fiction before»
Express
«Brings queerness to the noir genre»
Out in Perth
«Harry Kvist with a magnificent comeback»
TQR Stories (blog)
«The plot is excellent, the filth and every punch palpable»
Strange Alliances (blog)