This was on MinnPost, an online news source here in the lesser north.
Sweden has murder on the brain
Sweden's second city does not look like it's in the grip of a crime wave...
It only takes a look in any bookstore however, to see that this is a city, and a country, with murder on its mind...
Peter Wahlqvist, a Goteborg-based lecturer in crime fiction, said the international success of Swedish thrillers results from a combination of good writing, a taste for the exotic and the contrast between the make-believe mayhem and common foreign perceptions of Sweden as a blond, healthy, welfare state utopia...
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