Crime Quote by Stieg Larsson

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the…

— Jo Nesbo

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of…

— Camilla Lackberg

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

— Diane Setterfield

“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall”

— Stieg Larsson

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful…

— Michael Levitt

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself.…

— Jo Nesbo

“Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story worth listening…

— Mark Langan

“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

— Camilla Lackberg

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

— Sophie Hannah