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|author= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt
|title= The Man Who Wasn't There
|rating= 3
|genre= Crime
|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jour. It's hard to say where it started, the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when ''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the books.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Christine Feehan
|summary=Swevenings seems like one of those idyllic places to live. All that disrupts the tranquil lives of the inhabitants is the fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a large trout which lives under the bridge over the stream which meanders through the village. Then one day Nurse Kettle discovers the body of Colonel Carterette at edge of the stream and beside him is the Old Un. Carterette had been brutally murdered and he was not the fisherman who had landed the Old Un. He was, though, the man who was in charge of publishing the controversial memoirs of the local baronet. The investigation is beyond the capacity of the local constabulary, and Scotland Yard, in the person of Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in. And his primary interest is the fish.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AIK6U4Q</amazonuk>
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