Scandinavian Crime Wave

Traveling to Scandinavia this summer? Do not be alarmed, the crime wave is contained only within the pages of their popular crime fiction novels. More people are murdered within the pages of Scandinavian crime novels than in the streets of Oslo, Stockholm and Reykjavik combined. Some of the hottest crime novels are emerging from cooler climates, from newcomer Stieg Larsson’s blockbuster novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (second best–selling author in the world last year) to Henning Mankell’s scruffy and complex Swedish detective Kurt Wallander. Stieg Larrson’s second translated novel, The Girl who Played with Fire , hit the stores in late July 2009 and is expected to be a hit. Scandinavian crime novels are very popular world-wide and U.S. publishers are scrambling to translate the best ones. Even television is getting in on the bandwagon, this past spring, Masterpiece Mystery introduced author Henning Mankell’s Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in a three episode miniseries that has received two primetime Emmy nominations. New to Scandinavian crime novels? Try one these; The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo, Don’t Look Back by Karin Fossum, The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall, and Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriaason, Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser and Demon of Dakar by Kjell Eriksson.

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