Rezension: Barry Forshaw: »Death in a Cold Climate«

From the Danish TV series »The Killing« to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, Scandinavian crime fiction has become hugely popular. Forbidding landscapes, bleak weather, depressive detectives and gruesome violence.

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