“If Agatha Christie asks, ‘Who did it?’, Nordic crime fiction is more interested in ‘Why did it happen? – and what does it say about our society?” Lagercrantz tells me. “The only thing that’s certain nowadays—or almost certain—is that the protagonists have more problems than the crimes they are trying to solve. There are few happy detectives in Scandi Noir.” Read more
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