5 Gritty Nordic Noir Books That Rival ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’

Stieg Larsson‘s psychological thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, helped bring the Nordic Noir genre into the mainstream. The Swedish author’s global hit crime fiction trilogy, Millennium, posthumously published after his death in 2004, inspired multiple film adaptations. The Millennium novel series was first adapted into three Swedish films in 2009, starring Noomi Rapace, before David Fincher‘s 2011 Hollywood adaptation brought protagonists Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) and Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) to an even wider international audience.