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9780230303690

Death in a Cold Climate A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction

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    9780230303690

  • ISBN10:

    0230303692

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-02-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre; from Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck series, through Henning Mankell's Wallander, to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Author Biography

BARRY FORSHAW is a writer and journalist specialising in crime fiction and cinema. His books include The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson (2010), British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (2008), The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction (2007), Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation (2006) and the forthcoming British Crime Film (2012), and he has contributed to the Directory of World Cinema. He has also written for a variety of national newspapers as well as for Movie Mail, Waterstone's Books Quarterly and Good Book Guide and is editor of the online Crime Time magazine. He is also a talking head for the ITV Crime Thriller author profiles and BBC TV documentaries, and has been Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Crime and the Left
The Cracks Appear: Henning Mankell
Sweden: The Dream Darkens
Sweden: Foreign Policy and Unreliable Narratives
Last Orders: The Larsson Phenomenon
The Fight Back: Anti-Larsson Writers
Criminals and Criminologists
Norway: Crime and Context
Norway and Nesbø
Iceland: Crime and Context
Fringe Benefits: Icelandic Woes
Finland: Crime and Context
Death in Denmark
Danish Uncertainties
Film and TV Adaptations
Bibliography
Index

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