Darker Shade

This collection gathers original crime stories written in Swedish, presented as the first anthology to bring together the country's leading crime writers. One of its pieces is a short story by Stieg Larsson that has never appeared in print before. The book's appeal rests on the popularity that Larsson's bestselling The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sparked for Swedish crime fiction, and its contents show why readers have taken to the dark, gripping style of Nordic noir.

The contributors include Larsson himself, Henning Mankell, creator of the Wallander detective, and Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall, who created the Martin Beck series together. The lineup also features Eva Gabrielsson, a writer who was Larsson's partner for around thirty years.

The anthology suits readers who enjoy Scandinavian crime and want to see where the genre's best-known voices began and how they differ from one another.