Scandanavian Crime Writers

[davidr]

Having read the Millenium Trilogy (Girl with Dragon Tatoo etc) and enjoyed them very much, not just for the story but also for their descriptions of Swedish life I am interested in reading other Scandanavian thrillers/crime books. Does anyone recommend anything, other than Mankell's Wallander?

[pickle]

Miss Smilla feeling for Snow is one and its very good too.

[Skírnir]

Hmm, Arnaldur Indri

[Ooshie]

It does look very peaceful, though...

 

I'm half way through Shadow by Karin Alvtegen, which I am enjoying; I think she has another few books out too.

[Readwine]

I recently read The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson and The Man from Beijing by Mankell (not part of the Wallander series). I particularly did not care for either of these books, but you might check out Mankell's stand alone novels or Eriksson's other books.

 

Also, check out this website:

 

http://www.scandinavianbooks.com/crime-book-1.html

[SaraPepparkaka]

I saw some of Camilla L

[davidr]

Thanks to those who have contributed. I have heard of most of those suggested and have just read The Waters Edge by Karen Fossum which was ok. It's quite short and written from several characters' point of view which seem to make it quite jerky. Not sure I will bother with any more of hers for a while. I like the look of Camilla Lackberg's books in the UK. The covers are very cool but the Ice Princess doen't have very good reviews on other sites I visited but The Preacher does better. I have just bought The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo, a Norweigian crime writer. I will report back when I've read it.

[Ceinwenn]

You could always have a look here. That's where I've been looking for books lately. Have yet to buy any, buy am seriously considering a couple different authors.

[pontalba]

Thanks to those who have contributed. I have heard of most of those suggested and have just read The Waters Edge by Karen Fossum which was ok. It's quite short and written from several characters' point of view which seem to make it quite jerky. Not sure I will bother with any more of hers for a while. I like the look of Camilla Lackberg's books in the UK. The covers are very cool but the Ice Princess doen't have very good reviews on other sites I visited but The Preacher does better. I have just bought The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo, a Norweigian crime writer. I will report back when I've read it.

 

I've only read one of Karen Fossum's books, and I found the same thing, it felt a bit unfinished and jerky.

Jo Nesbo's The Redbreast is terrific, I have two more of his, unread as of yet, but they're definite TBRs.

[arewenearlythere]

Having read the Millenium Trilogy (Girl with Dragon Tatoo etc) and enjoyed them very much, not just for the story but also for their descriptions of Swedish life I am interested in reading other Scandanavian thrillers/crime books. Does anyone recommend anything, other than Mankell's Wallander?

 

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[emelee]

Here

[frankie]

Here you can find some of Scandinavia's crime writers. Too bad I don't know any Finnish ones that have been published in English, for sure.

[arewenearlythere]

Wow thanks for the recommendations! I am going to look into these authors over the coming weeks!