New Scandinavian Crime Fiction

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New scandinavian crime fiction. Nordic noir fans listen up this fall is bringing with it some fantastic new crime novels to sink your teeth into including sara blaedel s the silent women the second book in the author s internationally bestselling louise rick series. So when wendy lesser dives deeply into a world of crime fiction in her new book scandinavian noir. For fans of crime fiction nordic noir represents the bleakest of the bleak often centering on brutal crimes tinged with shocking violence.

The resulting boom in nordic crime fiction expanded the readerships of authors including karin fossum and jo nesbø who were bestsellers in europe a decade before larsson. Nordic noir also known as scandi noir or scandinavian noir is a sub genre of crime fiction usually set in scandinavia or one of the other nordic countries. If you re new to icelandic crime fiction it s best to start with the master and read the erlendur series beginning with jar city even though the final book in the series strange shores.

This book was previously published in the us under the title call me princess. The legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new icelandic series featuring the psychologist freyja and the police officer huldar. Crime fiction has been popular in scandinavia for years but this is the book that got the rest of the world hooked.

The first in a stunning new series from yrsa sigurdardottir the author of the silence of the sea winner of the 2015 petrona award for best scandinavian crime novel. The creak on the stairs is an object lesson in writing scandinavian crime fiction. Often the prose is spare and the storytelling is practical.

Nordic noir sometimes also called scandi noir is the scandinavian take on crime fiction books tv film as leaden and bleak as the gray arctic winter skies. Welcome to crime fiction lover from the latest scandinavian serial killer to golden age detective stories we love our crime novels. Today we re giving you the heads up on five new crime novels.

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