Recommended Reading For The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s Fans

Tens of millions of copies of Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium trilogy have been sold worldwide, introducing foreign readers to Nordic crime fiction. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo received the Glass Key Award, which is given each year to the best crime book by a Nordic author. And because both readers and reviewers like the series, author David Lagercrantz has continued Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist's exploits in two additional Millennium books.

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

Inspector Kurt Wallander, a middle-aged investigator who has since come to represent Scandinavian crime heroes, was first introduced to the public in the first Glass Key winner. (Kenneth Branagh played Wallander in the similarly named BBC series, and the Swedish television industry has twice adapted the character.) Faceless Killers takes place in a remote farmhouse, where an elderly couple is brutally tortured. Before she passed away, the wife managed to utter one word: "foreign." Wallander follows the case through the nation's unsettling confluence of immigration, racism, and xenophobia with his characteristically dismal perseverance. Wallander is a compelling lead character that dominates one of the most lauded series in Scandinavian noir, while maybe being too imperfect to be called "everyman."

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø

Examine the enormously popular series written by Norwegian crime fiction master Jo Nesb before Michael Fassbender plays Harry Hole in a movie version in October. The Snowman is just Nesb's ninth book to portray the inebriated, disobedient, and clever investigator, yet it serves as the ideal introduction to the startling underworld he has crafted. Oslo is plagued by Norway's first serial murderer, whose victims vanish after the first snowfall of the year and are replaced by snowmen. The pace of The Snowman picks up as the obsessive investigator works to solve the case before another victim passes away, turning it into more of a psychological thriller than a procedural.

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is more of an international thriller than a hardboiled mystery due to its intricate plot, which is based on the connected cultural histories of Denmark and Greenland. With a Greenlandic Inuit mother and a Danish father, Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen, the atypical protagonist of this 1993 Glass Key Award winner, carries a great deal of the work. The murder of a young neighbor kid forces Smilla, then 37, to overcome her tendency to be a loner and start investigating a decades-old conspiracy. The answer to the boy's death and the enigmatic mystery surrounding it can be found in Smilla's uncanny understanding of ice and snow.

The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg

The body of Erica Falck's childhood friend has been found in a bathtub that has been left frozen in her birthplace of Fjällbacka, a tiny fishing community. Although Falck is skeptical, it is allegedly a suicide. In the middle of a blossoming romance, Detective Patrik Hedström and I set out to investigate the death since he has his own theories about it. As Falck and Hedström get closer to the solution, which is entangled with the town's own secrets, revelations turn what had been a blissful past upside down. With a keen eye on how interpersonal relationships—both romantic and familial—shape people's motivations and actions, Läckberg deftly handles the suspenseful plot.

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