num_pages: 207
description: Barry Forshaw the UK's principal crime fiction expert presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre from Sjwall and Wahl's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .
language: English
title: Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan