A well-written book Looking for Alice presents a new way of telling a mystery story. As you read through the pages of this book, you just can’t predict what will happen next. Looking for Alice is very impressive, from the beautifully finished cover to the well-crafted storyline.Looking for Alice is a fast-paced story, with a lot of twists that make it difficult to determine what you will expect as you read through the pages. Luna Miller introduces a lot of separate elements in this book, and at ...

A well-written mystery crime novel...Swedish author Luna Miller weaves a first-class mystery and crime novel with intriguing twists and turns that will easily captivate the reader’s attention from the beginning. The author paints a modern and compelling Miss Marple type character with some impressive aikido skills to boot. In addition, the characters are drawn with great credibility and conviction. It’s a moderately fast-paced novel that will keep you engaged from the first page to the last.The ...

Gunvor Strom’s life has changed completely when illness causes her to change career in her 60’s. She starts a new career as a private detective and has 2 helpers in David and Elin who want excitement in their lives. What starts as a standard case of an affair will turn more violent and seedy and murder naturally follows. Is Gunvor out of her depth and will David and Elin get too personally involved. This story keeps you on your toes from the first page with twists thrown in. Gunvor is a likeable...

4.5★s“’You nicked his phone? But you’re just a sweet little old lady. Sorry that’s a bit rude— but it’s true!’ Looking like a boring old woman may well be an advantage in her line of work, but it hurt to have it confirmed so emphatically. Especially when she so actively loathed the whole idea of growing old.”Looking For Alice is the first book in the Gunvor Ström series by Swedish author, Luna Milller. It is translated from Swedish by Aidan Isherwood. Banker Mikael Franzén has been acting comple...

Gunvor is a retired surgeon who has taken on a second career as a part time private investigator. Her new client is Nadja, a woman who believes her husband is cheating on her. When Gunvor and her assistants, David and Elin, start to investigate, they find that there is much more involved, including rape, blackmail, and rough sex. Although well written and excellently translated, this intense Nordic Noir novel, with its psycho villain and grisly scenes, would probably have been better suited to a...

Thank you NetGalley, IBPA and Luna Miller for the eARC.The mystery features P.I. Gunvor Strom, a former surgeon who could no longer perform surgeries because of tremors. She's in pretty good shape, but drinks too much. A client wants her husband to be followed because she thinks he's having an affair. Things turn out to be a lot more serious than that. Gunvor hires two teenagers to help observe the man.I couldn't get into the book, didn't really like any of the characters and the whole story see...

Gunvor Ström is the character that Luna Miller uses as her mentor in her book Looking for Alice: A Gunvor Ström Novel. Gunvor was a surgeon until she almost killed a patient at the hospital. She left the hospital and started working as a detective for an agency. While waiting for the train she saw a bully picking on a young girl, Elin. The bully, David would do this every day so Gunvor decided to help Elin get past this lad every day possible. What she then does is recruit both Elin and David to...

The Lion’s Tale is a Scandinavian noir thriller set in Stockholm.Gunvor is unusual in that she has made a recent career change from medical surgeon to private investigator at a late stage in her life; she is sixty-five.Her latest case is a husband acting strangely and a wife suspicious that he’s having an affair. Gunvor follows her suspect but he spends his evenings in bars filled with a young set of customers. Believing that she will stand out in the crowd, Gunvor enlists the help of two teenag...

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.--- “What did he say? Think. Try to remember. It might be very important.” Gunvor struggles to hide her impatience. “Something about how even your dreams can be dangerous. About how I should keep my dreams as just dreams. And that if you try to make a dream come true you can mess up everything. You can ruin your life. That’s what he said. That your whole life can be destroyed.”Gunvor Strom hooked me almost immediately -- ...

‘The type that thinks he owns the world, Gunvor thinks.’Swedish author Luna Miller has published three books and they are available in Swedish, English, Portuguese, Spanish and German, specializing in Scandi noir. She self-publishes contemporary fiction and the Gunvor Ström detective series. She lives in StockholmLuna has created a unique and memorable character in Gunvor Strom and we get the flavor of this strange detective on page one – ‘It started on Monday, although it had presumably been go...