It oozes a classy, old-fashioned promise of a tale well told. But Nesbø's been chosen for us, and Morten Tyldum's slick, stylish, high octane big screen version of the stand-alone Headhunters (Hodejegerne) is just going to cement the author's place as the new king of Nordic thrillers.įrom the opening shot, this picture assures us we're in safe hands. While Nesbø's books are perfectly fine, enjoyable thrillers, they don't share the literary merit of, say, Karin Fossum, Karin Alvtegen, Leif Davidsen or Arnaldur Indriðason (all of whom have also inspired movie adaptations). He's 'the new Stieg Larsson!' 'If you like Kurt Wallander, you'll love Harry Hole!' This is clearly based on image and marketability.
But it was Larsson's wildly popular Millennium trilogy, starting with 2005's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, that took the whole thing to the next level.įollowing Larsson's death, Norwegian Jo Nesbø is the Next Big Thing. The current fad can probably be traced back to the first English translation of Mankell (although the Swedish Martin Beck series began in 1965). Meanwhile, they're churning out film and TV adaptations, and the really popular ones - Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, all-conquering Danish TV series The Killing (Forbrydelsen) - get the inevitable US remakes too. A steadily increasing proportion of books on the 'crime' shelves are from Scandinavia and Iceland. The Nordic crime fiction phenomenon has gathered a lot of momentum over the last 15 years or so, and it's showing no signs of slowing down.
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