A guide to the popular genre of Nordic noir and Scandinavian crime fiction, film and TV. Examines everything from Sjowall and Wahloo's influential "Martin Beck" series to Henning Mankell's "Wallander" books, Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy", and TV shows "The Killing, The Bridge" and "Borgen".

Barry Forshaw is an expert on crime fiction, and writes extensively on film. He is the author of the Pocket Essentials Italian Cinema, The Man Who Left Too Soon, and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction. He has written for various national newspapers, edits Crime Time, and is a talking head for ITV and BBC TV documentaries. He was previously the vice chair of the Crime Writers' Association.