This chapter explores the collaboration between the Prime Minister and a best-selling crime writer to co-write a crime novel, discussing the idea's inception and the influence of Nordic welfare societies on crime fiction.
Iceland is one of the most peaceful countries in the world, but people there love to read about crime. Even the Prime Minister of Iceland has written a crime novel. We stopped by her office to ask why.
Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Ragnar Jónasson's book is Reykjavík.
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