{"id":1788,"date":"2010-08-25T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2010-08-26T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T05:29:09","slug":"swedish-mysteries-across-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-mysteries-across-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Mysteries Across the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/books\/bestseller\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times Bestseller List<\/a> (really any of the fiction lists) shows just how dominant the Stieg Larsson mysteries are right now.\u00a0 <em>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nets<\/em> is number one on the hardcover list.\u00a0 <em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> and <em>The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/em> are numbers one and two respectively on the paperback lists.\u00a0 It\u2019s an impressive showing, and a showing that has continued for quite some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Even the movies, in Swedish, are increasingly popular.\u00a0 So much so that they are going to be remade in Hollywood.\u00a0 Plenty of people are upset by this, seeing it as unnecessary; others see it as confirmation of the widespread appeal of the films.<\/p>\n<p>But the popular Swedish mysteries don\u2019t begin and end with Stieg Larsson.\u00a0 Earlier this year, Henning Mankell, another Swedish writer of crime novels, made it to the list.\u00a0 Mankell is most famous for his protagonist, Kurt Wallander who spends the majority of his time in Ystad in southern Sweden.\u00a0 The fictional Wallander has become so popular that there are tours through Ystad in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be honest; I haven\u2019t read all of the Larsson books.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019ve only managed to get myself through <em>M\u00e4n som hatar kvinnor<\/em> (the Swedish title for <em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>). They are long.\u00a0 Really long.\u00a0 And it took me quite a while to get into the book.\u00a0 I had been warned that would be the case but wasn\u2019t quite prepared to read about 300 pages before it grabbed my attention.<\/p>\n<p>The books are incredibly detailed, sometimes to a fault, but the characters are engaging, and the plot exciting.\u00a0 If you\u2019re interested in Swedish pop culture, the books offer a glimpse of a very different view of Swedish society than what most people think of when they think of Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been caught up in the popularity of Swedish detective mysteries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick look at the New York Times Bestseller List (really any of the fiction lists) shows just how dominant the Stieg Larsson mysteries are right now.\u00a0 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nets is number one on the hardcover list.\u00a0 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire are&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-mysteries-across-the-pond\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}