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...