Edited, revised and updated English edition of the author's thesis 'Snuten i skymningslandet': Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-336) and indexes.
Contents:
The crime genre -- Enter the police -- Crime scene : Sweden -- The 1960s and 1970s : Sjöwall and Wahlöö -- The 1980s : Leif G.W. Persson and Jan Guillou -- The 1990s : Henning Mankell and Håkan Nesser -- Millennium cops -- Into the twilight.
Summary:
"Michael Tapper considers Swedish culture and ideas from the period 1965 to 2012 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Believing the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture, Tapper argues that, from being feared and despised, the police emerged as heroes and part of the modern social project of the welfare state after World War II"--Publishers website
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