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
In this international bestseller, a crusading journalist joins forces with a 24-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker to investigate the whereabouts of a woman missing from one of the wealthiest families in Sweden."
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 gruesome triple homicide attracts the...
Sun Storm
Ã…sa Larsson
Paper Book
WINNER OF SWEDEN'S BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL AWARD * In the land of silence and snow, the killing has begun . . .  Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return:...
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 debut mystery novel in the Inspector Sejer Series from Norway's award-winning author of Hell Fire and The Whisperer. Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when they make a grisly discovery: a man's body floating on the water's surface. Eva goes 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,...
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...
The Witch Hunter
Max Seeck
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...
Hunting Game
Helene Tursten
Paper Book
Embla Nystrom, Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden and talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic welterweight, is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to attend the annual moose hunt with her family and friends. But when Embla arrives in rural Dalsland, she...
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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