AfterSki - Excellent Crime

After a Long Friday of penance and fasting called Good Friday, we once more can celebrate the Easter Eve with a drink and a novel. In Norway most people are reading Crime novels during Easter. Why?

The combination of Easter + Crime = True has become so obvious that people even loved it even milk cartons were adorned by small crime stories on Easter Day. The tradition of Eastercrime has its origins in 1923, when the Gyldendals publisher, Harald Grieg, put an ad that looked like a regular news bulletin on the front page of Aftenposten, entitled "Bergen train robbed last night." The ad advertised for the new crime book to Nordahl Grieg and Nils Lie. More information of Easter Crime can be found in Adressa.no

I have two Crime Novels on my desk this year, both written by receivers of the Riverton Prize "The golden revolver". Kurt Aust in 2003 and Tom Egeland in 2009. Another of my favorite Crime novelists Ruth Rendell received the Riverton International Prize of honor in 1991.