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I love discovering new authors, well, at least new to me.  Indridason is an Icelandic writer who has won numerous crime novel awards in the Scandinavian countries, but is not yet too well known here, since JAR CITY is the first of his books to be translated into English in 2005.  Both books cover crimes in Iceland, specifically in Reykjavik, and have been compared to works by Simenon, Per Wahoo, and Henning Mankell.  Inspector  Erlendur, himself full of contradictions and dealing with family conflicts, heads the investigation team, also  quite an array of characters.  Erlendur is one of

Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has been one of the most popular novels of recent years, and the furor has only continued with the release of the second novel in the series: The Girl Who Played with Fire. His last book (both in the Millennium Trilogy, and forever - Larsson is being published posthumously), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, is due out in the US May 25th.

So what's a reader to do until then? Luckily, there are a wealth of Scandinavian mysteries and thrillers for you to delve into while you wait for your next (and last) Lizbeth Salander fix.

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