Best Steven T. Murray Books

The best books by Steven T. Murray — 5 titles spanning Mystery, Thriller, averaging 3.86 BLT stars.

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Steven T. Murray is the translator responsible for bringing two of Scandinavian crime fiction's most essential series to English-speaking readers — Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and Camilla Läckberg's Fjällbacka mysteries. Translation at this level is authorship by another name: Murray's English renderings of Faceless Killers and Sidetracked preserve Mankell's famously bleak, elemental prose — spare sentences, long silences, a Sweden that feels cold even in summer — while Läckberg's The Ice Princess and The Preacher retain their soap-operatic intimacy without losing any of the gothic chill. Murray has a rare instinct for calibrating register across very different writers, making each voice feel native rather than imported. Readers who came to Nordic noir in its early wave owe much of their experience to his craft. If you love Wallander or the Fjällbacka series, you've already been shaped by his work.

Steven T. Murray's highest-rated book in our collection is Sidetracked (4.05 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Sidetracked

    Kurt Wallander • Book 5

    by Henning Mankell, Steven T. Murray

    ★ 4.05 BLT Score (25.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (25.2K)
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    The Fifth Woman

    Kurt Wallander • Book 6

    by Henning Mankell, Steven T. Murray

    ★ 3.95 BLT Score (28.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (28.6K)
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    The Ice Princess

    Fjällbacka • Book 1

    by Camilla Läckberg, Steven T. Murray

    ★ 3.90 BLT Score (89.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (89.8K)
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    The Preacher

    Fjällbacka • Book 2

    by Camilla Läckberg, Steven T. Murray

    ★ 3.77 BLT Score (48.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (48.6K)
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    Faceless Killers

    Kurt Wallander • Book 1

    by Henning Mankell, Steven T. Murray

    ★ 3.63 BLT Score (79.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (79.6K)
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