Nordic Invasion
Nordic Invasion

There's an influx of cool crime fiction from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland (all of which have the Nordic Cross on their flags) but the Nordic territory encompasses even more.  We're looking for your stories, too, Greenland, Åland, and Faroe Islands!

February 21 2013
Fresh Meat: The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Leslie Gilbert Elman
February 18 2013
Fresh Meat: Killer’s Art by Mari Jungstedt
Leslie Gilbert Elman
January 15 2013
Joyriding in a Train? Crime Turns Weird in Sweden.
Crime HQ
October 3 2012
Jar City Slicker
Crime HQ
September 26 2012
Fresh Meat: Phantom by Jo Nesbø
Lakis Fourouklas
September 24 2012
Wallander: “Before the Frost”
Leslie Gilbert Elman
September 24 2012
Fresh Meat: Invisible Murder by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
Doreen Sheridan
September 17 2012
Wallander: “The Dogs of Riga”
Leslie Gilbert Elman
September 9 2012
The Troubled... Fan?: For the Love of Wallander
Dorothy Hayes
September 1 2012
Fresh Meat: Outrage by Arnaldur Indriðason
Leslie Gilbert Elman
August 6 2012
Fresh Meat: The Viper by Håkan Östlundh
Jordan Foster
June 30 2012
Fresh Meat: Only One Life by Sara Blaedel
Lakis Fourouklas
June 5 2012
The Princess of Burundi: First in Series Excerpt
Kjell Eriksson
June 5 2012
Fresh Meat: Carin Gerhardsen’s The Gingerbread House
Jordan Foster
May 29 2012
Fresh Meat: Killer’s Island by Anna Jansson
Clare Toohey
May 15 2012
Fresh Meat: The Dead of Summer by Mari Jungstedt
Jordan Foster
April 19 2012
First Look: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Graphic Novel
Crime HQ
April 3 2012
Now Win This!: John Ajvide Lindqvist Undead Prize Package
Crime HQ
March 25 2012
The Nordic Invasion Takes New York: Yrsa Sigurdardóttir and Elizabeth Hand
Crime HQ
March 19 2012
Fresh Meat: Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Leslie Gilbert Elman
March 8 2012
Fresh Meat: Helsinki White by James Thompson
Jordan Foster
March 6 2012
Now Win This!: Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s Ashes to Dust
Crime HQ
February 17 2012
UmlautPunk
Laura K. Curtis
February 6 2012
Available Dark: New Excerpt
Elizabeth Hand
February 2 2012
Fresh Meat: Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand
Victoria Janssen
January 24 2012
Making Iceland Ours: First Contraband, Next City State
Leslie Gilbert Elman
January 18 2012
Contraband:From Iceland to New Orleans via Chinatown?
Crime HQ
October 20 2011
More Nesbo Frenzy for the Big AND Little Screens?
Crime HQ
October 18 2011
Fresh Meat: Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis’s The Boy in the Suitcase
Jordan Foster
September 8 2011
Stalking Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters
Clare Toohey
September 2 2011
Fresh Meat: Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indridason
Leslie Gilbert Elman
August 5 2011
The Existential World of Hakan Nesser: Life is What You Make It
Peggy Ehrhart
July 22 2011
Karin Fossum: Quiet But Disturbing
Dirk Robertson
July 20 2011
The Hand That Trembles: New Excerpt
Kjell Eriksson
June 20 2011
Fresh Meat: The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
Elyse Dinh-McCrillis
June 16 2011
The Hypnotist: New Excerpt
Lars Kepler
June 14 2011
The Killing Us with Danish Crime News
Clare Toohey
June 9 2011
Vanity Fair’s Next Stieg Larsson: Where’s Lars Kepler?
Clare Toohey
June 9 2011
Camilla Lackberg is Not “the Next Stieg Larsson”—She’s Better
Leslie Gilbert Elman
May 26 2011
Video Screening Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman and The Leopard
Cathy Zhu Chen
May 15 2011
Stieg Larsson’s Girl Breaks the Rules
Joanna Novins
April 24 2011
Meet the Swedes: Henning Mankell and Wallander
Dirk Robertson