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Most Read This Week In Nordic Noir

Nordic noir is a genre comprising crime fiction written in the Nordic countries with certain common characteristics, typically in a realistic style with a dark, morally complex mood, breaking away from the older "whodunit" influenced by the British country house murder mystery. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Nordic Noir"

Hildur (Hildur, #1)
Tinna (Hildur, #5)
Rósa & Björk (Hildur, #2)
Jakob (Hildur, #3)
The Girl with Ice in Her Veins (Millennium #8)
Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
Wolf Hour
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7)
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
Hidden in Shadows (The Åre Murders #2)
El mentalista (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #1)
Rakel (Hildur, #4)
Tælle til en, tælle til to
Blood Ties (Kongeriket, #2)
Sömngångaren (Joona Linna, #10)
The Couples Trip
Locked In (Department Q, #10)
Kult (Mina Dabiri & Vincent Walder, #2)
Gökungen
Stolen
Spindeln (Joona Linna, #9)
Reykjavík: A Crime Story
Mirage (Mina & Vincent, #3)
The Shadow Murders (Department Q, #9)
The Mountain King (The Asker, #1)
Gjestene
Sneeuwwit (Holger Munch & Mia Krüger, #0)
The Living and the Dead
Lok lok og læs (Karólína, Týr & Iðunn #1)
Il gioco della notte
Death on the Island
The Glass Man (Asker, #2)
Botgöraren (Åremorden, #3)
The Writing in the Water (Bloodstorm, #1)
De terugkeer van Mia (Holger Munch & Mia Krüger, #4)
The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
Gelosia
Outside
Into Thin Air (The Arctic Mysteries Book 1)
Gættu þinna handa (Karólína, Týr & Iðunn #2)
The Lost House
Skulden man bär (Sebastian Bergman #8)
Skriket
Som man sår (Sebastian Bergman, #7)
Döden går på visning
De jaloezieman
Heim fyrir myrkur
Boys Who Hurt (Forbidden Iceland #5)
1795
The Last to Disappear
Arr (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #4)
Nattankare (Strindberg, #5)
You Can't See Me (Forbidden Iceland, #4)
Polcirkeln (Stenträsktrilogin, #1)
Dark Music (Rekke & Vargas, #1)
The Man Burned by Winter (Rooker Lindström, #1)
The Last Grudge (Jessica Niemi, #3)
Rostskogen (Asker, #3)
Grenseløs (William Wisting, #16)
Välkommen till Evigheten (Flickorna och mörkret, #6)
L'Île de Yule
Offer (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #5)
Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2)
Dark as Night (An Áróra Investigation, #4)
Geiger
White as Snow (An Áróra Investigation, #3)
Ghost Island (A Ghosts of the Past Novel)
The Shadow Lily (The Island Murders, #2)
Kallmyren (Stenträsktrilogin, #2)
The Woman Inside
Fädernas missgärningar (Rebecka Martinsson, #6)
You Will Never Be Found (High Coast, #2)
SON (Kari Voss, #1)
The Snow Angel (Detectives von Klint and Berg, #1)
I cirkelns mitt (Novagruppen, #1)
Till minne av en mördare (Skymningsland #1)
The Burning Stones
Den sista spiken (Fabian Risk, #6)
Ice Town (Tuva Moodyson Mystery, #6)
The Beaver Theory (The Rabbit Factor series Book 3)
Auf Tod komm raus (Ein Fall für Ebba Tapper, #1)
Schack under vulkanen (Inspector Barbarotti #7)
Gravglänta (Brottsplats Söderslätt #1)
The Moose Paradox
Kvæler (En Signe Christiansen og Martin Juncker-krimi, #3)
My Men
Opløst (Liam Stark og Dea Torp, #1)
Djuphamn (Ådalen, #3)
Andra sidan månen (Málagasviten #2)
Skärseld (Cold Case, #3)
Stormberget (Stenträsktrilogin, #3)
De hvide nætter (Liv Jensen, #2)
The Collector (Kaldan and Schäfer, #2)
Sista bilden (Cold Case, #4)
Reptile Memoirs
Det brændende blad (Liv Jensen, #1)
Mammon in Malmö (Inspector Anita Sundström, #8)
Paradis City
Kom hjem, Amadou (Eddie Feber, #5)
Wolf Pack (Tuva Moodyson Mystery, #5)

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Quotes Tagged “Nordic Noir”

Selin Senol-Akin
“ Some mistakes require a price before freedom..."- The Penance (Book 2 of 'The Catalyst' trilogy) ...more ”
― Selin Senol-Akin , The Penance
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Michal Polgar
“ Together then. Together, and sealed it with a kiss that tasted of copper and starlight. ”
― Michal Polgar, Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation
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Nordic Noir Book Club (fb link) A cross link to the Facebook group of the same name to share our book lists whether wholly Nordi…more
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Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers Welcome! Join us for our monthly group reads. We read Crime stories, Mysteries, & Thrillers. …more
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