It’s interesting to read proto-Scandinavian murder mysteries. It’s also interesting to read the novels that inspired famous BBC representations of those novels. This is an early crime novel in the sense of crime novels being about the violence, and the world around that violence, and the world that created that violence. There’s an introduction to this novel written by Henning Mankell, who is as famous as could be in the world of Nordic crimes novels, and he talks about this being a novel about details, […]