Dark Music: A Scandi noir slow-burner that fails to catch fire

David Lagercrantz is best known as the author who continued the Millennium novel series after its originator Stieg Larsson died.

Dark Music is the first in his self-created series of Stockholm-based crime stories, featuring the intrepid duo of a young female detective and an idiosyncratic college professor-cum-crime-solver. In a previous life, Lagercrantz was a crime journalist and there is the odd welcome flash of authenticity that such experience brings.

Part police procedural, part international political ...