Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis ofthe Scandinavian crime genre; from SjíƒÂ¶wall and WahlíƒÂ¶íƒÂ¶'s Martin Beck series, through Henning Mankell's Wallander, to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenonThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.