Scandi Noir

Delve into these crime novels set in Scandinavia - psychological thrillers <tick>, murder mysteries <tick>, brooding detectives <tick> <tick>.

Updated September 13, 2023
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Victim 2117 : a Department Q thriller
Adler-Olsen, Jussi
Paper Book
In the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department's own--the enigmatic Assad. The newspaper refers to the body...
The Shadow Murders
Adler-Olsen, Jussi.
Paper Book
In the exhilarating penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the radar for decades. On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the...
Shadow district
Arnaldur Indridason
Paper Book
OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as 'the shadow district'. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the...
The girl by the bridge
Arnaldur Indridason.
Paper Book
* OVER 20 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 PETRONA AWARD FOR THE BEST SCANDI CRIME* One girl missing. Another found dead. Only one detective can solve this case. 'One of the greats of modern crime fiction' Sunday Times...
The darkness knows
Arnaldur Indri©ʻason
Paper Book
'Arnaldur Indridason is the grand old man of Icelandic noir' The Times The victim- a businessman missing for thirty years. The case- impossible to solve. Until now. A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langj kull...
The butterfly house
Engberg, Katrine
Paper Book
Detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital in this sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Tenant that is "brimming with personality, eccentric characters, and plenty of...
The Katharina Code: A Cold Case, a New Lead, Fresh Hope or a Killer's Twisted Game?
Horst, Jorn Lier
Paper Book
Set between the icy streets and dark forests of Norway, a heart-stopping story of one man's obsession with his coldest case, by "one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today" (The Sunday Times, London). Katharina went missing twenty-four years ago....
Outside
Jonasson, Ragnar.
Paper Book
With three million copies of his books sold worldwide, "world-class crime writer"(The Sunday Times, UK) Ragnar Jónasson brings us a chilling new standalone thriller with Outside. Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive . . . ...
The Island
Jónasson, Ragnar
Paper Book
The newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene has arrived with a superb followup to The Darkness. Shortlisted for the Crime Novel of the Year Award in Iceland Third Place, Novel of the Year Award 2016 in Iceland, selected by booksellers One of the...
Lazarus
Kepler, Lars
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 15 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The seventh gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, was shot and killed years ago. The police moved on and...
The Mirror Man
Kepler, Lars.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MILLIONS OF COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The eighth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Sixteen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is...
Blood on snow
Nesbo, Jo
Paper Book
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love....
Killing moon
Nesbo, Jo.
Paper Book
GLOBE AND MAIL and NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller! Harry Hole is an all-time great character...a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight!"--Lee Child, author of the #1 bestselling Jack Reacher series "Nesbo is back on gruesome form"--Financial Times In...
Police
Nesb©ı, Jo
Paper Book
The thrilling follow-up to Jo Nesbo's #1 bestseller Phantom. Several police officers are found murdered at the scene of an old and unsolved murder case that they were involved in investigating. The killings are extremely brutal and bestial. The police have no leads. What's more,...
The girl who died
Ragnar J©đnasson
Paper Book
THE NAIL-BITING NEW STORY FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "Is this the best crime writer in the world today? If you're looking for a mystery to get lost in during lockdown..." --The Times, UK "A world-class crime writer.....
Knock knock
Roslund, Anders
Paper Book
The #1 international-bestselling thriller that tells the electrifying story of a police inspector and a former criminal informant in a race against time as they attempt to unravel past and present secrets. He thought she was safe. Then the past came knocking. ...
The witch hunter
Seeck, Max
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A shocking murder in an affluent Helsinki suburb has ties to witchcraft and the occult in this thrilling U.S. debut from Finnish author Max Seeck. A bestselling author's wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black...

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