Excellently documented as always, Marginalia devotes this month a special issue to Scandinavian Noir. For all readers of Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum, Jo Nesbø or Arnaldur Indridason looking for more on the context of Nordic noir and eager to discover Scandinavian crime authors old and new, this is a must. Especially as it contains, too, a selected bibliography on works of criticism, such as the recently published book by our friend Kerstin Bergman, Swedish Crime Fiction: The Making of Nordic Noir (Mimesis International, 2014). Readers curious about Swedish Crime Fiction from the 1940’s, such as Sture, Erik Yngve Högberg, Gertrud Stendal, or Stieg Trenter, or about Finnish Authors Mika Waltari (1908-1979) and Mauri Sariola, or about the collaboration of Maj Sjöwahl with Ross Thomas will want to read more…
https://www.academia.edu/9674263/Le_Polar_nordique