Scandinavian Noir Authors Novels & Stories

Shrewsbury The Third Twin: A Dark Psychological Thriller by Darren Speegle Aletheia: A Supernatural Thriller by J.S. Breukelaar Where the Dead Go to Die by Mark Allan Gunnells and Aaron Dries Sarah Killian: Serial Killer (For Hire!) by Mark Sheldon The Final Cut by Jasper Bark Blackwater Val by William Gorman Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy by Mercedes M. Yardley Nameless: The Darkness Comes by Mercedes M. Yardley

After a deep breath, Silje asked smoothly, “Do you remember how we used to talk about Karin Fossum’s books?” She spoke to him in Norwegian, making Kail smile mysteriously. He replied softly, “Oh, Karin Fossum… Of course. Have you read Carl Johan Vallgren too?” He sounded so natural like this was a normal day. Kail was a good actor and Silje smiled. She could do the same. Calmly, he continued, “If you finished all of Carl Johan Vallgren’s books, you should try Karin Fossum’s ‘He Who Fears the Wolf’. It is about a man who escaped a mental institution. You will find it very interesting.”

Don had placed a paperweight on the page—a small stone from the beach in Portugal, the one they had brought back as a souvenir, the one that lived on Don's desk and held down maps and papers that needed holding. Don had three books by the end of the week. Ernest knew this because of the deliveries—the familiar pattern of the arrival of the programme. The books came in the post, in padded envelopes and small boxes, and Don would open each one with the specific quality of someone who was building a foundation. The books were different from the Greece books in subject and quality: one was about the Norse relationship to winter and darkness, a cultural history of how the people of the far north

By the time the sun was fully up, I sat inside the patrol car, watching through the window as the coroner and investigators kept moving around the SUV. The coroner pulled off his outer gloves, his voice heavy in the cold air as he said, "Initial assessment: Cause of death is complex. Acute altitude complications are suspected—possibly sudden cardiac arrest or brain swelling. There might also be carbon monoxide poisoning or sudden hypothermia involved. "Because people react so differently, some may have blacked out instantly, while others might've felt pain first. But their deaths all seem to have happened close together, sometime between 1 and 3 AM."

I would like to express my gratitude to Editor Yino, who encouraged me to challenge myself with this story, and I will greet you next with my upcoming work. I am still a novice author in the novel world because I previously wrote many stories and am only now publishing them one by one. I read only physical paper books and do not read web novels at all, so the texture of my writing is a bit different from others. Even the genres I have read are things like detective stories, fantasy, Anglo-American literature, Nordic thrillers, and Japanese mysteries. Because of this, my writing carries its own unique color. There is a noir-style triangular romance featuring a cross-dressing woman where an ag