![]() ![]() ![]() This was seemingly just the office life of a policeman doing a job, but it was fascinating." "What I liked was that there were few fights or guns and all the action was in the characters. The crime fiction that first caught his eye (as it did for another global figure in crime writing, Martin Cruz Smith) came from Swedish Marxist husband-and-wife team Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall, whose explicitly socially and politically aware Martin Beck novels were published in the 60s and 70s. PROFILE: Northern exposure : Nicholas Wroe interviews Arnaldur Indridason, whose macabre thrillers, starring his 'gloomy Scandinavian' inspector Erlendur, are not only hugely popular in his native Iceland, but a growing global success (Nicholas Wroe, June 17, 2006, The Guardian ) ![]() INTERVIEW: Doug Johnstone interviews Icelandic crime writer Arnaldur Indridason (Times of London) AWARD: Icelandic author wins crime writing prize (John Ezard, Novem, The Guardian) AUTHOR PAGE: Arnaldur Indrdason (Picador USA) AUTHOR PAGE: Arnaldur Indrdason (Random House) Arnaldur Indridason (Icelandic Literature) See also: Arnaldur Indridason ( 6 books reviewed) ![]()
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