Reading List
Anders Roslund
Swedish Crime Novelist and Journalist
Anders Roslund, born in 1961, is a Swedish author and journalist. He reported for the national broadcaster SVT, headed its culture news programme Kulturnyheterna until 2004 and then became a full-time author. With Börge Hellström, who died in 2017, he wrote crime novels as the duo Roslund & Hellström, including the Ewert Grens series. Their novel Three Seconds won the 2011 CWA International Dagger. The picks here come from a Five Books interview the two gave together: Roslund chose The Laughing Policeman, One Step Behind and Shutter Island, and Hellström chose The Abominable Man and The Raven.
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane · 2021 · Gothic
“This is the best non-Swedish crime book I have ever read.” — via Interview, May 2012
One Step Behind
by Henning Mankell · 2003 · Crime
“Mankell was the one who took the Swedish tradition from Martin Beck and turned it into Wallander.” — via Interview, May 2012
The Laughing Policeman
by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö · 2009 · Crime
“what struck me is that despite some of their descriptions obviously coming from the 1970s the plot is timeless.” — via Interview, May 2012
