Several weeks ago Tony Parker reminded you of the popularity of Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Sheppard Memorial Library will soon add to its DVD collection the three European films based on Larsson’s books “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” and “The Girl Who Played with Fire.”

Although Larsson is perhaps the most internationally well-known of Nordic authors who write novels of crime/mystery/suspense, there are others whose works can be found on the library’s shelves. (Names here may vary from their native spellings, do not include diacritical marks, and use the closest corresponding characters in the English alphabet.) In the 1970s, fellow Swedes Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo had already flourished with their novels about police detective Martin Beck.

Also a Swede, Henning Mankell created the character of Kurt Wallander; the library has many of Mankell’s books as both printed volumes and spoken-word recordings and as DVD dramatizations from “Masterpiece Mystery.” Other Swedish writers who have ventured into the crime genre are Camilla Lackberg, Ake Edwardson (creator of Inspector Winter), Arne Dahl, Helene Tursten (whose main character is Detective Inspector Irene Huss), Mari Jungstedt (who favors the setting of the island of Gotland), Karin Alvtegen, Kjell Eriksson, Hakan Nesser (the library has four of his Inspector Van Veeteren novels), Liza Marklund (who has collaborated with American bestseller author James Patterson), and Asa Larsson (whose character Rebecka Martinsson is an attorney).

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