Nordic Noir

With 6 million copies sold in the United States and 35 million copies worldwide, Steig Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has become an international sensation. Book 3 of the series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, has recently been published in the Unites States and is destined to stay on best seller lists for a long time. Mr. Larsson has captivated readers with the exploits of Lisabeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist as they track down killers, expose corruption, and uncover the dark underbelly of Swedish society.

Have you not read any of the books and are wondering what the fuss is all about? To get started check out The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Book 1) and then move on to The Girl Who Played With Fire (Book 2). Dragon Tattoo is now a motion picture and will be available for viewing from Leach Library on DVD later this summer.

With Mr. Larsson’s death at the age of 50 in 2004, what is a fan of this genre to do? There is word that Mr. Larsson’s unfinished fourth manuscript may, one day, be published but what until then? With the success of the Millennium trilogy, other Scandinavian mystery writers are becoming more popular in the United States. Here are just a few, all available at Leach Library:

FIC ALV
Alvtegen, Karin. Missing. New York: Felony & Mayhem Press, [2008].

MYS ERI
Eriksson, Kjell and Segerberg, Ebba. The princess of Burundi. 1st ed. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, [2006].

MYS FOS
Fossum, Karin and David, Felicity. Don't look back : an Inspector Sejer mystery. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, [2003].

MYS HOL
Holt, Anne and Dickson, Kari. What never happens. 1st American ed. New York: Grand Central Pub, [2008].

MYS JUN
Jungstedt, Mari and Nunnally, Tiina. The inner circle. 1st U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, [2008].

MYS MAN
Mankell, Henning and Thompson, Laurie. The man from Beijing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [2010].

CD BK MAN
Mankell, Henning and Hill, Dick. The dogs of Riga. Ashland, Or: Blackstone Audiobooks, [2006].

MYS NES
Nesbø, Jo and Bartlett, Don. The devil's star. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Harper,[2010].

FIC THE
Theorin, Johan. Echoes from the dead. New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks, [2008].