Waiting your turn for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest? Keep your cool with these Nordic mystery series:

The redbreast by Jo Nesbø; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

Last rituals: an Icelandic novel of secret symbols, medieval witchcraft, and modern murder by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir; translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder

Don't look back: an Inspector Sejer mystery by Karin Fossum; translated from the Norwegian by Felicity David

Jar city by Arnaldur Indriason; translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder

Mind's eye: an Inspector Van Veeteren mystery by Håkan Nesser; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson

The ice princess by Camilla Lackberg; translated by Steven T. Murray

Faceless killers: a mystery by Henning Mankell; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray

Echoes from the dead by Johan Theorin; translated by Marlaine Delargy