Holmén is an author on the cutting edge of an art form, pushing deeper into the myre opened up by Jean-Claude Izzo, Derek Raymond and Massimo Carlotto. There is something genuinely cathartic about this reading experience

New Books Magazine

Excellent series... gripping finale

Crime Review

A shocking, edge-of-the-seat read. Simply put - Wow. What a trilogy. What an ending. One of the best thrillers of the year.

Crime Thriller Hound

Praise for The Stockholm Trilogy:

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Sin City meets Raymond Chandler in this atmospheric and compulsive series

Attitude

A brilliant new talent

Sunday Times Crime Club

A dark, atmospheric, powerful thriller, the best debut novel I've read in years

Lynda La Plante

Ferociously noir... If Chandler and Hammett had truly walked on the wild side, it would read like Clinch

Val McDermid

Holmén has Raymond Chandler's rare ability to evoke a character in a few deft strokes

Mail on Sunday, best crime reads of 2016

Gritty, stylish Scandinavian noir from one of Sweden's hottest emerging authors

Booklover

Atmospheric Scandi retro, but Chandleresque to its core

The Sunday Times Crime Club

Well-crafted noir that doesn't pull its punches, hitting you in the guts with stark surprises

Thriller Books Journal

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

Brings queerness to the noir genre

Out in Perth

Harry Kvist with a magnificent comeback

TQR Stories (blog)

The plot is excellent, the filth and every punch palpable

Strange Alliances (blog)

If you're looking for a new addiction, try [Clinch]... it's a tough thriller that packs a punch

Daily Star on Sunday

A real tour de force... a fascinating race through 1930s Stockholm

- Kate Rhodes,

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 Holmén has created a remarkable novel that works well at many levels, ticking all the right boxes for the Scandi crime category

Thriller Books Journal

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... Holmén 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