Writing Wrongs: Contemporary European Crime Fiction and the Spectre of Euro-Fascism in the Novels of Didier Daeninckx, Arne Dahl and Jo Nesbø

This chapter explores the ways in which the memory of collaboration with Nazism haunts a range of French and Scandinavian novels from the new millennium. It proposes that this memory, which is linked in each work to the rise of contemporary neo-Nazism across the continent, suggests a persistent awareness of that other form of European union which inspired French, Norwegian, and Swedish collaboration and which continues to offer a counterpoint to the rise of today's European Union. These novels are therefore not only vital tools for exploring half-buried national memories of local fascisms; they serve to alert the reader to the European and transnational nature of fascism and its relevance in post-Schengen Europe.