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The Healer

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Tapani Lehtinen’s wife Johanna goes missing from their Helsinki home. But this isn’t the current safe and sophisticated Finnish capital of today – it’s a dysfunctional hell-hole, ravaged by the effects of climate change and social disintegration. This futuristic novel charts Tapani’s efforts to find…
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The Hanging

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Written by Søren and Lotte Hammer — Konrad Simonsen, lead detective in Copenhagen’s Murder Squad, is recalled from his long overdue holiday with his daughter after two children discover the corpses of five men hanging from the ceiling of their school gymnasium. They have been…
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Bad Blood

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Written by Arne Dahl — Last summer, Harvill Secker released The Blinded Man, the first in Swedish author Arne Dahl’s Intercrime series which is being translated into English. TV adaptations of the books have since appeared on BBC4 in Swedish, with subtitles, via the well-received series…
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Black Skies

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Written by Arnaldur Indridason — If you’ve read Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo or Henning Mankell and want to deepen your experience of the Nordic Noir sub-genre, then Arnaldur Indridason’s books need to be added to your TBR list. First published in English in 2004, Jar…
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The Weeping Girl

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Written by Håkan Nesser — If you’re a lover of Scandinavian crime fiction, take warning. Most or the jacket quotes on the latest Håkan Nesser novel refer to the author’s Nordic Noir and Scandinavian crime fiction credentials. “Nesser is one of the best of the…
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Chilled to the Bone

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Written by Quentin Bates — It appears the weather is conspiring to keep us reading Nordic crime fiction – or at least crime fiction set in colder climates. Or is it just me who needs rain, snow and grey clouds to curl up with Scandinavian writers?…
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Two Soldiers

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Written by Roslund & Hellström — This is the third novel from the Swedish crime writing duo to be translated into English. Anders Roslund is a journalist and criminologist. Börge Hellström is a reformed criminal who now works diverting kids away from gang culture. Together,…
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