Stockholm Noir [Paperback]

Named a Pick of the Week for the week of February 29th byPublishers Weekly

Grouped under three headings, the 13 stories in this outstanding entry in Akashic's noir series capture the gloomy underside of Sweden's capital, portraying the hopelessness of those trapped in what Larson and Edenborg in their introduction call the city thatdevours your soul.
--Publishers Weekly, Starred review

Coedited by local authors Larson and Edenborg, this superb sampling of Swedish crime writing talent, some of whose work has been translated into English for the first time here, will be appreciated by fans of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy and Jens Lapidus'sEasy Money; they will enjoy getting to know these authors, who write about Stockholm's dark side.
--Library Journal

Akashic's multivolume Noir series returns to Scandinavia, focusing this time on the capital city of Sweden, a country that is famously neutral in time of war but is also a large-scale dealer in arms....Another worthy entry in this globe-trotting mystery series.
--Booklist

Larson and Edenborg manage to unearth a dark side to a city thatis verdant, clean, and surrounded by crystalline water....Stockholm may not be Marseille, but Larson and Edenborg's contributors show that even a verdant place with socialized medicine can have its seamy side.
--Kirkus Reviews

The series offers the best of bite-sized crime stories from all over the world--you can't go wrong!
--Book Riot

On the heels of editions set in Copenhagen and Helsinki comesStockholm Noir, edited by Nathan Larson and Carl-Michael Edenborg with a predictably discerning eye for stories that wring suspense, violence, and worry from social and political issues percolating in a given milieu.
--Village Voice

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