![]() ![]() 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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