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Luther season 5 comes to BBC One

Remember the time DCI John Luther handcuffed London crime boss George Cornelius to a radiator and pretty much left him there to rot? Well, that’s just one of the misdemeanours that’s going to come back to haunt the obsessive detective as the latest series of…
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Murder on the tundra

On the Radar — Last week, we led with Will Dean’s Red Snow, which takes place in a Swedish town surrounded by forests. This week. Arne Dahl’s Hunted is set in the country’s vast northern tundra. Maybe 2019 will be dialling up the Nordic noir…
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Good Samaritans

Written by Will Carver — Will Carver, where have you been hiding? You dazzled, beguiled and entrapped us with books like Girl 4, The Two and Dead Set. Your detective January David was going places, we thought, despite everything you put him through. Then, in…
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The top eight Nordic noir novels of 2018

Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. They were the domain of the Northmen, the dreaded pagan hordes that swept through Europe around the end of the first millennia with their crazy, one-eyed gods, war hammers and long blonde hair. A similar though altogether more pleasant…
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The best crime shows of 2018

A lot of crime shows were watched by members of our team in 2018. We had an expert with his ear to the ground at some of the top television festivals, we had people scanning Netflix and Amazon, the BBC and ITV, and a feed…
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