And as next big Nordic noir thing Randi Fuglehaug popularises Norway we explore where they make a tourism killing from the Fjords to Guadeloupe.
Now you probably know Randi from her young adult Netflix series Royalteen.
But you’ll soon be acquainted with her and her and her detective Agnes Tveit’s stomping ground of Voss in west Norway.
Normally a sleepy mountain town close to Norway’s Hardanger region Randi ramps it up.
With murders around an extreme-sports week and a sheep’s-head feast Ekstremsportveko, jazz festival Vossa Jazz and food fest Smalahovesleppet.
All standard settings for crime writers and a tourist board’s dream for promoting their region.
Elementary detective setting
We have, of course, seen Guadeloupe given the tourism treatment as the site of many a murder in Death in Paradise.
While here on this island and the rocks off it there is no shortage of murder capitals.
The actual English and British one where Sherlock Holmes’ fictional abode 221b Baker Street is a popular tourist spot.
While as far north as you can be in the Shetland Islands you can walk in Jimmy Perez and Ruth Calder’s footsteps.
C’est murder
While way south, almost France really you can soak up Bergerac’s Jersey.
Why not walk the rues of Paris and the Quai des Orfèvres, the historic police headquarters of Inspector Maigret?
Back on Holmes, you can pay homage to the Scots author in his hometown of Edinburgh.
And at the Conan Doyle boozer in the New Town.
And the scene of Holmes and Moriarty’s set-to at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
Wallander to Marlowe
Back in the frozen north you can visit Wallander’s favorite haunt, Fridolfs Konditori in Sweden and order a Wallander pastry.
While Istanbul, the crossroads of Europe and Asia is an obvious setting for detectives.
From Hercule Poirot on the Orient Express to today’s Turkish Detective.
And in America my uncle would dine out on when Kojak was shot in his Pirate’s Cove pub in Manhattan.
While if it’s old Californian tec vibes you want.
Then San Francisco is an enduring character for Sam Spade and Los Angeles for Philip Marlowe.
The fourth book in the Agnes Tveit set will be out early next year.
And it is set during a local football tournament.
