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This hour, Global Noir.

We're going noir this hour with a show on crime fiction. If your taste in reading runs to blood spatter and bullet holes, there's a whole new world out there, because the latest wave in crime fiction is global.

Writers from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America are reinventing the old-fashioned detective story.

One of the first to put this new wave on the map is England's Barry Forshaw.

As editor of the website, Crime Time, he covered the Nordic Noir movement, and lately he's

been talking up Euro noir.

Barry, it has been kind of exciting to see how international crime fiction has become in the past few years.

What's happening?

Well, it actually always has been international.

It's just that we didn't notice it.

Certainly in this country, we read Georges Seminole, and we thought that the writer just has the

misfortune to be born in Belgium, he's really British.

But then everything began to change, really, with Henning, Mancolle and Stiglash,

when the Scandinavian wave started to break over our heads.

But beyond Nordic noir, there's an entire European continent of crime fiction waiting to be discovered by American and British readers.

I know you've been surveying this for a new book on Eurocrime.

Give us a sense of, you know, the international range.

Well, I think it's interesting that when I was writing Euro and noir, I looked at the countries,

which had a kind of the sense that something was really happening, something big. For a long time,

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