Reviews

• “Roslund and Hellström are in a league of their own and have once again managed a book that you will not want to put down for a long time. Impressive!”

• “Roslund and Hellström’s first novel was awarded The Glass Key for 'Best Nordic Crime Novel of the Year'; the following two novels have both been shortlisted for 'Best Crime Novel of the Year,' awarded by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers. And the question is whether The Girl Below The Street isn´t even better than its predecessors.”

• “The Girl Below The Street is the crime novel most worth reading this fall.”

• “Roslund & Hellström are experts at picking out a topical social issue, pointing an annoyed finger at it and asking questions. This is their best crime novel so far.”

• “Their style is concise and efficient, and if you start to read you will have difficulties putting down the book.”

• “When it comes to the gentlemen Roslund &?Hellström delivering a new novel, a solemn moment for the reader is always guaranteed. The Girl Below The Street is their fourth crime novel, and the authors once again show that their writing is first-rate.”

• “Suspenseful and well-writen, this is a story that will go straight into your heart.”

• “The fourth novel by two of the finest writers in recent years… [is] so good, so incredibly good. /…/ At times like this, it is nothing but a truly sincere pleasure to be a literary critic.”

• “Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström have carved out a niche of their own within Swedish crime fiction. /…/ What makes them unique…is their passion for social justice. They write crime novels where the emotions beam directly out of the abdomens, like a pipe straight out of solar plexus. /…/ The books of Roslund and Hellström are about the people who no one wants to acknowledge. The people who hardly exist, but who are resurrected in these novels. It’s magnificent to see it happen. Read them all, there are four novels so far. /…/ These books are among the very best on the market right now.”

• “Every year, Roslund & Hellström have created stories where both theme and style have been so utterly relevant and thought-provoking, filled with compassion, rage and brilliant writing, that they have elevated themselves far above the evenly grey mass in which the Swedish Crime Novel seems stuck. Even though I dislike superlatives like 'of the highest international standard', I cannot resist using them in this particular case. /…/ Together with a select few, these gentlemen occupy a unique position among the quality Swedish authors of the genre.”

• “Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström have done it again. The novel deals with a phenomenon that is quite real, and contains a dilemma that will leave no reader untouched. Written in a beautiful language, rich in images. /…/ Quite simply brilliant!”

• “It is no coincidence that Roslund and Hellström have been awarded The Glass Key for one of their novels, and had their other two books shortlisted for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award; that they’ve been translated into fourteen languages and solds hundreds of thousands of copies /…/ Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström have yet again accomplished a powerful and gripping novel that treats a charged topic. /…/ The Girl Below The Street is a novel that takes hold of its reader.”

• “A first-rate page turner.”

• “Roslund & Hellström are the two-person ethics commission of Swedish crime fiction; in each and every one of their novels, they put their reader’s moral judgment to the test. /…/ A police hero who is neither likeable nor particularly righteous – also in that respect, Roslund & Hellström put their readers to the test. I find this very good.”

• “The book is enormously well written and suspenseful. The authors have an apparent sense of dramaturgy and slowly but surely build up their story, using a number of strong scenes. The topic is of great current importance, and dealing with it in the form of a crime novel is surely one of many good ways to pinpoint the problem.”

• “One of the best things to happen to Swedish crime fiction during the past couple of years is the duet Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström. They have, with their three novels to date, established themselves as poignant delineators of our time, displaying compassion for the weak and exposed in our society.”

• “The author duo Roslund & Hellström are back. Dark as ever before. Roslund & Hellström in no way avoid depicting what is tough, difficult and unbearable, something they have shown with books such as Cell 8 and Box 21, both excellent, not to say brilliant, in their blackness, acuity and compassion with the life stories of the exposed. /…/ Roslund and Hellström write with a distinct acuity and great fury; there is no space left for discussion or reasoning; things are either black or white, no shades allowed. And this is how it should be, because there is nothing to be uncertain about here, it is the matter of people who have fared badly.”

• “Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström’s fourth book is as good as the one I’ve read before and which I hear countless people praising. These writers know their subject matter inside and out; criminality, hierarchies within the police, the area of law, and like here, so repulsively literally – the underworld. /…/ What makes this… story great, is its credibility, everything is there, everything is taking place now, today. /…/ The book is truly captivating.”

• “As usual, Roslund & Hellström have a good narrative drive; it is more or less incessantly suspenseful and interesting, and gives you the feeling that this is urgent business. And as usual, the writes hold the banner of social criticism that goes hand in hand with Swedish crime fiction high.”

• “Stories picked up from the back side of Swedish society that one cannot read without being touched and absorbed. Clinging realism that crawls under your skin.”

• “With this dark and frightening thriller, this astonishing Swedish author duo turns Stockholm's underworld into a waking nightmare.”