Death in a Cold Climate guides you from Sjöwall and Wahlöö’s influential Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander, Camilla Läckberg’s menacing Fjällbacka, the Reykjavik of Arnaldur Indriđason, Stieg Larsson’s publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Jo Nesbø’s Harry hole series
The book offers unique interview material with Jo Nesbø and other Scandinavian writers, publishers and translators; this is the perfect readers’ guide to the hottest strand of crime fiction today and an overview of the people, politics, societies and landscapes from which it emerged.
Barry Forshaw is a writer and journalist specialising in crime fiction and cinema. His books include The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson (2010), British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (2008), The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction (2007), Italian Cinema: Arthouse to Exploitation (2006) and the forthcoming British Crime Film (2012), and he has contributed to the Directory of World Cinema. He has also written for a variety of national newspapers as well as for Movie Mail, Waterstone’s Books Quarterly and Good Book Guide and is editor of the online Crime Time magazine. He is also a talking head for the ITV Crime Thriller author profiles and BBC TV documentaries, and has been Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association.
Death in a Cold Climate
A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw
Palgrave Macmilian
January 2012