The legions of readers who adore the dark Scandinavian noir of Jo Nesbø will also love Macbeth, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play.. OK, thank goodness that’s over. Now I can say ...

History of Art professor Alexander Nemerov’s new book, “Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War,” begins on the stage of a performance of “Macbeth” on Oct. 17, 1863 in Washington, ...

This update is set in a dilapidated, drug-ridden town in 1970s Scotland. Macbeth himself is a senior policeman, strongly resembling a Scottish version of the author’s Norwegian sleuth, Harry Hole.

In the book’s defence, Nesbo makes excellent use of all the atmosphere of his genre, and the stakes at play are every bit as convincing as those in the original. Overall though, it disappoints.

Everyone knows what has long been the story of Macbeth as presented to us in Shakespeare’s play. Now, in this latest volume in Polygon’s Darkland Tales series, Val McDermid tells it differently.

Get your daggers ready, friends: The homicidally ambitious Macbeth and his wife, plus the frightening trio of witches who steer their fates, are headed back to movie screens.

Lady Macbeth is said to be cunning by other characters throughout the book, but she never displays these clever ways. On the contrary, all that she seems to do is watch over her son and pace back ...

Shakespeare's “something wicked this way comes” (Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1) is the banner under which all crime fiction marches. The actual line does not appear in Jo Nesbø’s re-imagining of ...

The Macbeth Shakespeare discovered had already been demonised for several centuries. But, as Fiona Watson’s scholarly study demonstrates, the real story is very different: from 1040 to 1057 ...