Wednesday, March 22, 2023

In heartbeats and tears

Nordic noir has taken the world by storm. It's everywhere. Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish and Icelandic Scandinavian genre of crime fiction. Thanks to the authors (e.g. Jo Nesbø, Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, Camilla Läckerg, Jens Lapidus), movies (e.g. The Pusher,  Kraftidioten, A Second Change) and TV-series (e.g. The Killing, The Bridge, Sorjonen, Lilyhammer, Bordertown). Tunna blå linjen (Thin Blue Line), by Cilla Jackert, a series that follows the private and professional struggles of police officers working in the multicultural southern Swedish city of Malmö is the coolest motherfucker out there.

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