(edit title) Questions Regarding Swedish Literature The Hypnotist Options

[Joseph5774]

In The Hypnotist (Lars Kepler), the term "city car" is used. Would this be a taxi?

There is also a reference to meeting after tea time. What time would that be?

Finally, I have read several books by Swedish authors (and have watched a few movies and TV shows). All of them have been rather dark, violent and perhaps gruesome. I have never been to Sweden nor spent any significant time with a Swed. Can I draw from these works of fiction any accurate inferences about Swedish people, culture or the Swedish psyche.

Many thanks,
Joe

[Case officer]

Wikipedia: City car

[Emerentia]

All of them have been rather dark, violent and perhaps gruesome. Can I draw from these works of fiction any accurate inferences about Swedish people, culture or the Swedish psyche.

No, none, what you can draw from these works of fiction is what sells, what people like to read about in crime fiction. It has nothing to do with reality.

When I watch Midsomer Murders, for example, I don´t expect that to tell me anything how the British people are in general.

[Silberfüchschen]

There is also a reference to meeting after tea time. What time would that be?

Tea time is not a Swedish term. It might be a translation of fika, which is a coffee break that can be taken pretty much at any time of the day.