Declan Burke takes a look at some recent additions to the increasingly popular casebook of Scandinavian crime novels.

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The Son

Mark O’Sullivan, who has just published his tenth novel Sleeping Dogs, tells Billy O’Callaghan that his books are like Nordic Noir icon Kurt Wallander’s ... but with a relieving sense of humour.

Thrillers

As his maverick Edinburgh detective Rebus returns after a five-year absence, best-selling author Ian Rankin tells Hannah Stephenson why he’s frustrated by the TV adaptations of his books — and that he never watches them.

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Grabbers (15A) sounds like a bad Paddy Irishman joke, but Jon Wright’s offbeat tale of a remote Irish island besieged by alien invaders that can only be repulsed by copious amounts of booze is in fact a nifty variation on the B-movie horror flick.

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It’s the Snow White story, of course, but through a glass darkly.

Scandinavia has given birth to some of the most gripping and terrifying thrillers in recent years.

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The Leopard

MANY authors can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand: this former footballer, soldier, musician and financial analyst is one of the few who knows how to keep them upright.