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Originally Posted by HarryT
Have to admit that, on the whole, I find Nordic crime fiction too "dark and depressing" to be an enjoyable read.
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I find them deliciously dark ... haunting - especially if the translator is equally fluent in English -
but overall I appreciate the clean, uncluttered prose style of most Scandinavian mysteries - the ecological bleakness/whiteness/cold reflected in the prose and the story lines.