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A Danish take on the thriller

After Marklund, Mankell, Larsson, Nesbø and The Killing comes Jussi Adler-Olsen. With the UK release of Mercy, his first novel in the Department Q series, Danish Adler-Olsen takes on the thriller genre, with a good dose of dark and bitter characters, a twisted crime case and a pinch of humour.

Jo Nesbø – A storyteller inspired by the essence of fear

In his newest novel The Leopard, Norwegian crime (and, believe it or not, children’s book) author Jo Nesbø pushes his anti-hero Harry Hole further into dark despair, as another string of murders unsettles Norway. With his seventh novel in the Hole series, The Snowman, having created a lot of fuss and somewhat inevitable, yet superfluous, Stieg Larsson comparisons, Nesbø is the Scandi crime author of the moment.