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