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<\/a>Riding the new wave of interest in Scandanavian crime fiction that began to build momentum in the early 1990s, K. O. Dahl is known to fans of Nordic Noir for his irascible and grotesque Oslo police detective, Gunnarstranda (like Colin Dexter\u2019s Morse, he seems to have no first name) and Gunnarstranda\u2019s younger, more hip, and more emotionally susceptible sidekick, Frank Frolich. Together the two have appeared in five books in English translation since 1993, when Dahl published Lethal Investments<\/em>, the first in his seven-book series. He has also written five other novels as well as short stories and nonfiction, including a guide to Venice.\u00a0This interview took place on June 4, 2015. Read Professor Rzepka’s interview with K. O. Dahl.<\/a><\/p>\nCrimeculture is delighted to publish two new interviews by\u00a0Professor Charles Rzepka, with K. O. Dahl and J. A. Jance. Riding<\/p>\n<\/a>Judith A. Jance is the best-selling author of fifty-five crime novels comprising four separate series as of the date of the following interview, which took place at her home in the Bridle Paths section of Bellevue, Washington on the morning of June 4, 2017. Her series of books set in Seattle features the SPD homicide detective J. P. Beaumont, who was the main focus of our discussion. Read Professor Rzepka’s interview with J. A. Jance.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Professor Rzepka, who teaches English at Boston University, is the author of Detective Fiction\u00a0<\/em>(Polity, 2005) and\u00a0<\/em>the co-editor (with Lee Horsley) of the\u00a0Blackwell\u00a0Companion to Crime Fiction<\/em>\u00a0(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). He\u00a0completed his superb\u00a0study of Elmore Leonard,\u00a0Being Cool <\/em>(Johns Hopkins University Press) in 2013, and his extensive interviews with Elmore Leonard<\/a> are available on Crimeculture. He has a\u00a0forthcoming article on the part-Choctaw interwar detective writer, Todd Downing: \u201cRed and White and Pink All Over: Vacilada<\/em>, Indian Identity, and Todd Downing\u2019s Queer Response to Modernity,\u201d Texas Studies in Literature and Language<\/em>, 59.3 (Fall 2017), 353-384.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"