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The Man Who Wasn't There by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt (view source)
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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 [[:Category:Henning Mankell|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. [[:Category:Stieg Larsson|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.