If you Liked Henning Mankell’s Inspector Wallander series... Swedish author Henning Mankell has become a publishing phenomena around the world. His series featuring world weary Inspector Kurt Wallander has been translated into many languages and has made him a household name. With shocking crimes, a flawed but sympathetic main character, and a focus on the underside of modern Sweden, Mankell’s police procedural’s have suspense and thrills, rounded out with atmosphere and character.
Don’t Look Back, by Karin The Redbreast, by Jo Fossum Nesbø.
The murder of a young girl in a A Norwegian cop investigates small Norwegian town in the neo-Nazis in a thriller that first of the Inspector Sejer series. moves between the close of An unsettling mystery with a World War II and modern day. compelling protagonist. Voted the best Norwegian thriller ever.
Knots and Crosses, by Ian Sun and Shadow, by Åke Rankin. Edwardson
Erik Winter is, at 40, the Comparisons between youngest Chief Inspector in Wallander and Rankin’s John Sweden. In this first in a series, Rebus abound; each a Winter investigates a bloody dedicated cop with a murder that seems to have complicated personal life never cultist underpinnings. far in the background.
The Man on the Balcony, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Tainted Blood, by Arnaldur Indridason. Wahlöö. A rare, seemingly random Before there was Wallander murder in Reykjavik, leads there was Martin Beck, a Inspector Erlendur to uncover Stockholm detective in a series the victim’s unseemly past. of novels from the 1970s.
Ratking, by Michael Additional Suggestions: Dibdin Also consider these authors: Kjell Eriksson, Kerstin Ekman, Mari Jungstedt, Asa Lursson, Different geography, similar Hakan Nesser or Helene Tursten. spirit. A kidnaping involving an important family turns to murder in this first mystery with sg/kp/02/08 Italian investigator Aurelio Zen.