More Nordic noir, but with a climate-change twist

The Girl in the Ice

By Lotte and Søren Hammer

Translated by Paul Norlen

Bloomsbury, €17.25

At first glance, the inexhaustible appeal of Nordic noir seems contradictory. The settings are downbeat and realistic; the protagonists tend to be middle-aged men well past their prime. They are civil servants, rather than superheroes.

The appeal, however, is in the understatement of the backdrop. The crimes that first draw the detectives in may appear, at first, ...