Anders de la Motte, a former police officer, made his debut in 2010 with the award-winning thriller Game and has since then been one of Sweden’s most beloved and popular crime writers. He is the author of several acclaimed and bestselling crime fiction series, among them the suspenseful Skåne Quartet.
De la Motte's new novel is The Glass Man, the second title in the Leonore Asker series.
At People magazine the author tagged ten favorite crime titles starring strong female characters, including:
The Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas HarrisRead about the other entries on the list.
Clarice faces a manipulative FBI boss, therapy sessions with none other than Dr. Hannibal Lecter and finally a violent showdown with Buffalo Billhimself. Talk about challenges! (And if you haven’t seen it, the film is also pretty good).
The Silence of The Lambs is among Sheila Yasmin Marikar’s eight titles that showcase the eroticism & savagery of cannibalism, Sascha Rothchild's ten top literary antiheroes, Andrew Bourelle's four best ticking-clock thrillers, Ben McPherson’s ten thrillers based on real-life events, E.G. Scott's best frenemies in fiction, Caroline Louise Walker's six terrifying villain-doctors in fiction, Kathy Reichs's six best books, Matt Suddain's five great meals from literature, Elizabeth Heiter's ten favorite serial killer novels, Jill Boyd's five books with the worst fictional characters to invite to Thanksgiving, Monique Alice's six great fictional evil geniuses, sixteen book-to-movie adaptations that won Academy Awards.
--Marshal Zeringue
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