THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB is the latest addition to the Nordic Noir Collection in Carrick on Suir Library.  This is the fourth installment in the Millennium series of novels, focusing on the characters of Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.  This genre is ever popular in Carrick on Suir, comprising of crime fiction written in Scandinavia with certain common characteristics, typically in a realistic style with a dark, morally complex mood. These are ideal books to read as the nights begin to close in.

Some critics attribute the genre’s success to a distinctive and appealing style, “realistic, simple and precise…and stripped of unnecessary words”. The works also owe something to Scandinavia’s political system where the apparent equality, social justice, and liberalism of the Nordic model is seen to cover up dark secrets and hidden hatreds. Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, for example, deals with misogyny and rape, while Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers focuses on Sweden’s failure to integrate its immigrant population.

We have collections from the following authors; Henning Mankell, Mari Jungstedt, Kjell Eriksson, Kerstin Ekman, Håkan Nesser, Helene Tursten, Åsa Larsson, Liza Marklund, Stieg Larsson, Camilla Läckberg, (all Swedish), Anne Holt, Karin Fossum, Jo Nesbø, Gunnar Staalesen (all Norwegian) and Jussi Adler-Olsen, Michael Larsen, and Peter Høeg (all Danish)!!!!!!!!!!!!