I have frequently covered the new releases and crime authors from Scandinavia. However, no such coverage is complete without including the successful Swedish duo Roslund and Hellström. Anders Roslund is a professional journalist and creator of Sweden's number one cultural TV program Kulterkanna. Börge Hellström is an ex-criminal who founded a criminal…

There were usual suspects in the beginning: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, published in 1868, and Emile Gaboriau's first Monsieur Lecoq novel L'Affaire Lerouge, released in 1866 were generally known as the first detective fictions giving birth to this great genre. Occasionally some reserachers were bringing up some records of earlier works here and there; but in…

Arne Dahl is now one of the most well-known names in Scandinavian crime. His novel Misterioso, which was recently translated into English, was one of the best novels we reviewed last year and definitely a 2011 favorite (Read the review here).We recently sat down with him for an interview about…

Declan Hughes (born 1963) is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter most widely known for his crime novels center around the Irish-American detective Ed Loy. Hughes lives in Dublin with his wife and two daughters.

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Thanks to a tattooed, adventurous , bisexual computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander, Scandinavian crime fiction is now one of the most popular categories among mystery readers around the world. So far Noir-flavored books from Scandinavia have sold more than 6 million copies in the United States and 35 million copies worldwide and have become a publishing…