Recs if you like Smilla's Sense of Snow...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

TIME’s list of “the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books” running all the way back to the 1800s

Lots of women, sapphic romance, and cozy reads - but not all!

Think the Nordic life is all about the cozy comforts of hygge? These books will make you think again. They focus on darker side of mysteries, thrillers and suspense. Featuring tortured detectives, highly disturbed murderers, inhospitable environments and meticulously insidious crimes!

All books written by authors from Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway (one might be from Estonia but oh well).

Books that are part of a series I’ve only included the first book