Stieg Larsson Opens Cold, Murderous World of Scandinavian Noir
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There’s more to Scandinavia than pine-scented forests and crystal-clear lakes, as the world was forcefully reminded by Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik.
Stieg Larsson made the same point to great success in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and its sequels. Yet Larsson was not the first of the region’s writers to explore its dark side.