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Lynx-lynx, I have to disagree with you.
I saw the original Danish TV version of The Killing (all three series). They were truly excellent. I didn't know there was a book of the series, but if it's half as good as the TV, it would definitely be worth reading.
But by no stretch of the imagination can it be called a police procedural. Sarah Lund is about as far from a police detective as you can get. And the way in which the team follows up flimsy clues, arrests and interrogates suspects, gets emotionally involved in the cases, and generally runs around achieving nothing - who can believe any detective force, anywhere in the world, would behave like that?
The same is even more true of Stieg Larsson's trilogy. Again, these are excellent stories, and highly entertaining. But they have no possible basis in reality. When it comes to accuracy, the police methods are totally implausible, and the final courtroom scene is nothing short of ridiculous.
This is not a criticism of either of your recommendations. My point is that a police procedural is supposed to give insights into how a real police force would go about solving a case. Neither The Killing nor the Larsson books can make any claim to doing that.
Mike
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