Nordic Noir

Nordic noir is a subgenre of crime fiction set in Scandinavian countries.
Updated September 19, 2022
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Paper Book
A sensation across Europe--millions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and...
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Høeg
Paper Book
Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
Paper Book
Early one morning, a small-town farmer makes the horrible discovery that his neighbors have been brutally attacked during the night. An old man is dead, and his wife lies dying before the farmer's eyes. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: "foreign". In charge of the...
The Snowman
Jo Nesbø
Paper Book
Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesb#65533;’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity. Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to...
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Paper Book
Jussi Adler-Olsen, author of The Absent One, is Denmark's premier crime writer. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he's won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award-also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and...
The Hypnotist
Lars Kepler
Paper Book
A Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction book for 2011 One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year 2011   Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a...
Roseanna
Maj Sjöwall
Paper Book
With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell. The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ("the best writers of police procedurals in the world"), finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely...
Sun Storm
Ã…sa Larsson
Paper Book
On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled–and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall....So begins Åsa Larsson’s spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden’s Best First Crime Novel Award and an...
The Chestnut Man
Soren Sveistrup
Paper Book
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES If you find one, he's already found you .... From the creator of The Killing, "a full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson" (A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window). Winner of the Barry Award for Best First...
In the Darkness
Karin Fossum
Paper Book
The original Inspector Sejer mystery available for the first time in English. Eva Magnus is a struggling artist and the divorced mother of a seven-year-old child, Emma. One afternoon she and Emma are walking by the river when an unknown man's body floats to the surface of...
The Crow Girl
Erik Axl Sund
Paper Book
The International Sensation It begins in a Stockholm city park where the abused body of a young boy is discovered. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to...
The Forgotten Girls
Sara Blaedel
Paper Book
The Forgotten Girls The body of an unidentified woman has been discovered in a remote forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. Louise Rick, the new commander of the Missing Persons Department,...
I'm Traveling Alone
Samuel Bjork
Paper Book
International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging...
The Darkness
Ragnar Jónasson
Paper Book
Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After...
The Gilded Cage
Camilla Lackberg
Paper Book
An over-the-top psychological thriller that tells the story of the scorned wife of a billionaire and her delicious plot to get revenge and bring him to his knees--a "sexy, deliciously dark journey" (Los Angeles Times) from a global superstar. Faye has loved Jack since they...
The Lost Village
Camilla Sten
Paper Book
*BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR "Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets." - New York Times book review "[A] scary, highly entertaining debut...that pays homage to...
We Know You Remember
Tove Alsterdal
Paper Book
"Beautifully elegiac and intricately plotted, this is Nordic noir at its best."--People Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel * Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year * Shortlisted for the Best Swedish Book of the Year Award * One of People Magazine's Best Books of Fall...
The Heart Keeper
Alex Dahl
Paper Book
Critically acclaimed author Alex Dahl explores how love can turn darkly sinister when a desperate mother looks to reconnect with her lost daughter in this riveting Norwegian set psychological suspense novel. Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart.  <...

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