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If You Like Stieg Larsson's The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, You Might Enjoy . . .

BOOK BUZZ: So you've read Stieg Larsson's explosive Millennium Trilogy series featuring the antisocial, but lethal Lisbeth Salandar, and Henning Mankell's series starring the rumpled, introspective Kurt Wallander. Maybe you know about the Inspector Martin Beck series by grandmasters of Swedish detective fiction, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Expand your reading horizons and try some of these other Scandinavian authors.

Here are some read-alike suggestions for novels similar to The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo. Check out our blogs and Staff Picks lists for more book, music and movie recommendations.

Arnaldur Indridason: Erlendur Sveinsson series

Solitary police detective, Erlendur Sveinssen, solves crimes in Reykjavik, Iceland while dealing with ghosts from his personal and professional past.
Bates, Quentin: Frozen Assets

(2010)

A body is found floating in the harbor of a rural Icelandic fishing village. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? It's up to Officer Gunnhildur, a sardonic female cop, to find out. Author Quentin Bates is a U.K. native who lived in Iceland for a decade.
Dahl, Kjell Ola: Chief Inspector Gunnarstranda and Detective Inspector Frank Frolich series

Gunnarstrand and Frølich of the Oslo Police use old-fashioned interview techniques and psychological insights to solve crimes.
Edwardson, Ake: Inspector Erik Winter series

Erik Winter is the youngest chief inspector in Sweden.
Fossum, Karin: Inspector Sejer mysteries

Karin Fossum is Norway's “queen of crime.” Her psychological style of storytelling is compared to Ruth Rendell's.
Holt, Anne: Johanne Vik and Adam Stubo series

Oslo husband and wife detective Adam Stubo and Johanne Vik solve crimes and explore Norway's politics and culture.
Jungstedt, Mari: Detective Superintendant Anders Knutas mysteries

These mysteries are set on the Swedish island of Gotland.
Lackberg, Camilla: The Ice Princess

(2010)

The dark secrets of a small Swedish community are revealed as a woman returns to her hometown after the death of her parents and the suicide of a childhood friend. This begins a new series featuring Detective Patrik Hedstrom and biographer Erica Falck.
Larsson, Asa: Sun Storm

(2006)

Winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel Award
Marklund, Liza: Red Wolf

(2011)

The latest novel to feature Stockholm journalist Annika Bengtzon.
Nesser, Hakan: Chief Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren of Sweden is divorced, grumpy and cynical, and his love of dark beer, books and chess is probably greater than his love for his job. But his intuition and ability to read people have made him a highly successful detective.
Nesbo, Jo: Harry Hole series

The Oregonian says that Jo Nesbo "uses grace and energy to blend intelligent art with grisly mayhem" in his Oslo thrillers.
Persson, Leif: Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime

(2010)

This first entry in a trilogy inspired by the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme traces an investigation into an unknown American's death in Stockholm and reveals a complex web of espionage and intelligence failures.
Roslund, Anders: Box 21

(2009)

Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a brothel. Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom and the opportunity to take revenge on their enslavers. What will happen now that the tables are turned and the victims fight back? The next in the series is Three Seconds.
Theorin, Johan: The Darkest Room

(2009)

Joakim Westin, a Stockholm schoolteacher and a grieving widower whose young daughter begins hearing ghostly voices, must solve a puzzle that includes a walled-in room and his community's mysterious glowing lighthouse. Winner of Sweden's Best Crime Novel Award.
Thompson, James: Lucifer's Tears

(2011)

Inspector Kari Vaara is pushed into investigating a 90-year-old national hero for war crimes committed during World War II. Finland's Interior Minister demands a conclusion of innocence, but Germany wants extradition. Vaara is also drawn into a current murder-by-torture case that has the past and present colliding in ways no one could have anticipated.
Tursten, Helene: The Glass Devil

(2007)

A Swedish pastor, his wife, and his son are executed gangland style. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her team investigate and bring modern Swedish society to light.
Yrsa Sigurdardottir: My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland

(2009)

In this chilling follow-up to Last Rituals, lawyer and single mother of two, Thora Gudmundsdottir, is once again pulled into a darker side of Iceland's history as she hunts for a savage killer.