Henning Mankell Outside of Larsson, Mankell is probably Sweden’s best-known crime novelist his philosophical police procedurals feature the gloomy homicide detective Kurt Wallander. Must Read “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Stieg Larsson He revived the craze for Scandinavian mystery with “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and his political paranoia and sadomasochistic sensibilities continue to influence the genre. Jens Lapidus His Stockholm Trilogy is a good old-fashioned gangster story about the godfathers of Sweden’s criminal underworld. Lars Kepler The husband-and-wife team behind Kepler - Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril - has a taste for the macabre and a surefire recipe for the lurid serial-killer thriller. Must Read “The Cruel Stars of the Night”Ĭamilla Grebe Though she sometimes teams up with her sister Asa Traff to write novels, Grebe’s best books - the slow-burn ones starring the profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schon - are her own. Kjell Eriksson While Scandinavian thriller writers are famously unemotional, Eriksson’s police procedurals demonstrate extraordinary compassion for those caught up in serious crimes. Gunnar Staalesen Staalesen isn’t very well known in this country, which is a shame, since his series, starring the hard-boiled Bergen detective Varg Veum (whose name in Old Norse means “the outlaw”), is as searing and gripping as they come. Pernille Rygg In Rygg’s atmospheric yet delightfully offbeat thrillers, a young scientist becomes an amateur sleuth after the unexpected death of her father.
Jo Nesbo The best-known novels from this Norwegian rock star-turned-crime writer feature Harry Hole, a macho homicide cop in perennial pursuit of foaming-at-the-mouth psychopaths. Jorn Lier Horst Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden’s Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas.
Anne Holt This author and former minister of justice - best known for procedurals that are written with an easy, unforced style - has created one of the genre’s most memorable detectives, a prickly police officer named Hanne Willhelmsen.
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