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A brilliant new talent * Sunday Times Crime Club * Sin City meetsRaymond Chandler in this atmospheric and compulsive series * Attitude * Well-crafted noir that doesn't pull its punches, hitting you in the guts with stark surprises * Thriller Books Journal * Cleverly twisted and well-clued, and with a satisfying ending... A Nordic Sam Spade thriller, beautifully written, with fast action, memorable characters and a vividly described setting * Mystery People * Harry Kvist with a magnificent comeback * TQR Stories (blog) * The plot is excellent, the filth and every punch palpable * Strange Alliances (blog) * Praise for Clinch: -- _ * _ * Holmen has Raymond Chandler's rare ability to evoke a character in a few deft strokes * Mail on Sunday, best crime reads of 2016 * Ferociously noir... If Chandler and Hammett had truly walked on the wild side, it would read like Clinch * Val McDermid * Atmospheric Scandi retro, but Chandleresque to its core * The Sunday Times Crime Club * If you're looking for a new addiction, try [Clinch]... it's a tough thriller that packs a punch * Daily Star on Sunday * A dark, atmospheric, powerful thriller, the best debut novel I've read in years * Lynda La Plante * A real tour de force... a fascinating race through 1930s Stockholm -- Kate Rhodes 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 * 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 * Martin Holmen has created a remarkable novel that works well at many levels, ticking all the right boxes for the Scandi crime category * Thriller Books Journal * Gritty, stylish Scandinavian noir from one of Sweden's hottest emerging authors * Booklover * 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... Holmen 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 *