Michael Hjorth's book
If Nordiks-thrillers remain intractable at the top of the noir genre, it is thanks to authors like Michael Hjorth in his natural tandem with Hans Rosenfeldt. Of course, well accompanied by others of his generation such as Jo Nesbo or Karin Fossum. In a reading universe that currently revolves around ...
In the Bergman 7 series there is a happy concert by a Hjorth and a Rosenfeldt delighted to have found each other as well as eager to build their independent literary careers. A full-blown creative paradox that underpins the success of criminal psychiatrist Sebastian Bergman. We talk about …
We already know Michael Hjorth and his ability to make film novels, fictionalized scripts where we move through scenes imported from films. It is something like the reverse process of all creation that usually goes from matte paper to celluloid. The fact is that penetrating these fictionalized scripts ...
Noir novels, thrillers, have a kind of common line, an unspoken pattern for the story to unfold with its greater or lesser degree of intrigue until a twist near the end leaves the reader speechless. In the case of this book Unspeakable Silences, Michael Hjorth allows himself ...