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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.


Camilla Lackberg

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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
HAKAN NESSER Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They ...
JO NESBO My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ...
JO NESBO Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for...
GARRY DISHER Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go ...
JO NESBO The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use ...
CAMILLA LACKBERG Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...
H. G. WELLS Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from...
KARIN SLAUGHTER A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical i...
RAYMOND CARVER The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirti...
CHARLES FRAZIER A lot of it is not the actual crime, it's the fear of crime. So we need to keep that in perspective ...
DAVID PURDY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime wr...
KARIN SLAUGHTER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur...
DENISE MINA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about sin...
BILL BENNETT A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
LUCAN Internet crime has become the new wave of crime against children, ... Belmont County Sheriff Fred Th...
BILL MASON a very long-standing interest and success in investigating and prosecuting Russian organized crime, ...
JAMES COMEY That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, i...
VICKI DELANY I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my fir...
IRVIN D. YALOM The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than rea...
JACQUES BARZUN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer gene...
GILES FODEN Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And...
JOHN MCWHORTER A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been ...
HONORE DE BALZAC If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you shoul...
STEVEN PINKER [Publishers Weekly said] 13 Steps Down ... all her trademark virtues: vivid characters, a plot addic...
RUTH RENDELL Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
ADRIAN MCKINTY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reade...
MARK BILLINGHAM In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I...
DAVID HEWSON Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the wor...
JOSEPH ADDISON I write non-fiction, and he didn't influence me. He was one of the great writers, but I don't know t...
GAY TALESE There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
DANIEL WOODRELL No one can demand that you be neutral toward the crime of genocide. If there is a judge in the whole...
GIDEON HAUSNER Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
TOM ROBBINS A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the l...
MARK TWAIN Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be...
AMANDA WARD EYRE Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logisti...
ANDRE BRAUGHER She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have d...
GEORGE OSBORNE I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime ficti...
ANTHONY GEARY Transit systems across the country have found that the level of crime committed on transit property,...
GREG HULL In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spe...
MAJ SJOWALL I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW Life [had] replaced logic.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates?
MAUREEN JOHNSON Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong...
MARK BILLINGHAM So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these B...
BILL HICKS It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better ...
LINWOOD BARCLAY You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innoc...
EDWIN MEESE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a w...
THOMAS H. COOK 'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fictio...
NOAH HAWLEY All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an elemen...
CARL HIAASEN Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the log...
ANDRE BRAUGHER I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly becaus...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because ...
MATT TAIBBI crime and crime rates are not increasing because of the society, but because of such a society is cr...
DEVASKI Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
LORD EDWARD COKE Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
EDWARD COKE Crime fiction "confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rationa...
P.D. JAMES . . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behi...
E. M. FORSTER The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
E.M. FORSTER Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don...
DICK FRANCIS We want to make sure he never sees the light of day.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'...
JOSTEIN GAARDER Those who notice, always notify, what they are noticing but we have to check that notification.
ARPIT PUROHIT If one person get shot and killed is called a crime, but if thousands of people get shot and killed ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at ...
HERMAN KOCH Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compul...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but w...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It's organized crime. You say [just] a bunch of pimps and prostitutes, but when you string the threa...
CHIP BURRUS I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest busi...
PETER KIRK Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or Englis...
KARL LAGERFELD Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the ...
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE With the exception of Rwanda in 1994 and Cambodia in 1975, you would be hard-pressed to find a crime...
DAVID SCHEFFER During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free ...
BEN SHAPIRO That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

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