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I'm liking the locked room mysteries of Hans Olav Lahlum so far (I'm up to the second of the three books). He takes his inspiration from Agatha Christie and Rex Stout, with a dash of Georges Simenon thrown in. The books are written in the usual dry Scandinavian style, but don't have the bleakness you often find in other Scandinavian mysteries. The detective is a likable, well-adjusted young man, who teams up with a brilliant, eccentric teenage girl in a wheelchair. The mysteries are devious and intricate.
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