Death in a cold climate
Subtitle: a guide to Scandinavian crime fiction
By: Barry Forshaw
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780230361447
Subjects: Scandinavian Detective and mystery stories; LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective; Scandinavian fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History and criticism; Crime in literature
Description: "Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre; from Sjöwall and Wahlöö'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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Crime and the Left; title: The Cracks Appear: Henning Mankell; title: Sweden: The Dream Darkens; title: Sweden: Foreign Policy and Unreliable Narratives; title: Last Orders: The Larsson Phenomenon; title: The Fight Back: Anti-Larsson Writers; title: Criminals and Criminologists; title: Norway: Crime and Context; title: Norway and Nesbø; title: Iceland: Crime and Context; title: Fringe Benefits: Icelandic Woes; title: Finland: Crime and Context; title: Death in Denmark; title: Danish Uncertainties; title: Film and TV Adaptations; title: Bibliography; title: Index.