Italian Cinema von Forshaw, Barry

A guide to the popular genre of Nordic noir and Scandinavian crime fiction, film and TV. Examines everything from Sjowall and Wahloo's influential "Martin Beck" series to Henning Mankell's "Wallander" books, Stieg Larsson's "Millennium...

The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; André Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry...