New contenders
Theorin, Mankell and Nesbo are my favourites, but there are some new names popping up, such as Tegenfalk (Anger Mode) and Nilsson-Julien (the ice cage) showing great promise and looking at these I believe there are yet some contenders to come. Genre fiction is about twisting expectations, not reproducing exactly the same, because that’s the death of a genre. At the moment Nesbo and Theorin may have reinvented Mankell, but there are already others challenging them…
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