As a fan of the "Millennium" Swedish TV miniseries, with a fantastic Noomi Rapace as the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo[a], I found this piece fascinating.

I knew very little about "Scandinavian Noir," and in fact didn't even think of it as a genre until reading the OP.

Now, I want to read the "Beck" novels and also watch its Swedish TV/film adaptions, if there are any.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(miniseries) -- In my humble opionion, the Swedish TV adaptations of Stieg Larsson's books are much better than the Hollywood movie adaptations, which tend to be much flashier and have more special effects but don't feel or bite quite as hard as the Swedish TV miniseries.