Stieg Larsson s darkly violent but irresistibly absorbing and wildly popular crime novels have brought new attention to the work of Nordic crime writers, and "Scandinavian Crime Fiction" is the first English-language study of the genre as practiced in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Attending to the work of such popular authors as Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum, and Anne Holt as well as Larsson "Scandinavian Crime Fiction"explores every aspect of crime writing in the region, from history to recurrent themes to the ways these books have been adapted for television. Many...

"Iberian Crime Fiction" traces the origins and development of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Leading scholars of crime fiction cover all aspects of the genre in the peninsula, including surveys of major authors, a study of women s crime fiction, a consideration of the rise of the "novella negra "tradition, and an account of the genre s mid-1950s peak in popularity, as well as an analysis of current trends and authors."