Another name and another series

Another name is Barbara Vine, who everyone knows is Ruth Rendell, wrote a book with a Scandinavian connection (Denmark) in 1993. "Asta's book" was a wonderful read. Barbara Vine's latest book "The Minotaur" has a Swedish main character , a young woman named Kerstin, who tells the story. The title is because there is a maze involved (although not particularly mysterious or threatening) and the minotaur on Crete lived in a labyrinth. A psychological condition adds interest - autism (more specifically Asperger syndrome)
Today just about everyone knows what autism is, at the time when the main portion of the book takes place (late 60's) there was little or no general knowledge about the condition. Today the disorder arouses interest and is not a "shameful" thing to be hidden. Caring for someone with autism is, however, today as earlier a daunting task. Like many of Vine's books the story itself is of less interest than the characters that emerge from the pages of the book.
Another series is a Cork O'Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger ("Mercy Falls"). More wilderness stuff and an amazingly lot of blood and murder for a tiny town in northern Minnesota. What was a bit irritating is that the novel ends with the set up for the next in the series - so the resolution comes in the book that won't be out in paperback for at least another year. But I guess by then it will be time to read the whole series again.
Another series (2) is the latest outing of Nina Reilly "Case of Lies" by the sister duo Perri O'Shaughnessy. According to the sisters' website there may be somewhat of a wait for the next Nina Reilly book, they are publishing a stand-alone later this year. Nina Rielly seems to be the same kind of murder magnet as Cork O'Connor, at least five murders in this last book. I guess Lake Tahoe is no safer than Aurora, Minnesota. An interesting side plot, for those of us with a rudimentary interest in mathematics anyway, is a lot of information on prime number theory. Also some Pythagoras thrown in for good measure