ISRAEL'S Homeland, Italy's Inspector Montalbano, Australia's Underbelly: the mean streets of international crime drama are starting to look as crowded as the boulevards of the Braehead shopping centre on Christmas Eve.
So far, though, no-one can touch the Scandinavians when it comes to taking noir from the page to the cinema screen. After the box-office success of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy (David Fincher's US remake of the first in the series has made $232 million worldwide) and Jo Nesbo's Headhunters, comes Jackpot, the latest red-hot export from the chillier north.
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