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Cold cases, colder places

Scandinavia's finest exports: flat-pack furniture and beautifully miserable murder.

There is a particular pleasure in reading about sub-zero crime from somewhere warm. The Nordic backlist is vast, bleak, and permanently discounted.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

The one that started the invasion. A locked-island mystery forty years cold.

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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Peter Høeg

A boy falls from a roof; only Smilla reads the snow correctly. Ice as a character.

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The Chestnut Man

Søren Sveistrup

From the creator of The Killing. A serial-killer chiller with actual chestnuts. Do not read alone in a cabin.

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