Follow the Money season 3 is on the way…
After two successful runs making the world of finance and investment a dangerous place, the Danish programme Follow the Money is returning to BBC Four.…
After two successful runs making the world of finance and investment a dangerous place, the Danish programme Follow the Money is returning to BBC Four.…
When Swedish and Danish television producers collaborated to create The Bridge, it took Nordic noir television to another level. Now that programme seems to have…
Written by Eddie Thomas Petersen, translated by Toby Bainton — British publisher Handheld Press has developed a reputation for putting out carefully selected works in a…
Written by Connell Nisbet — A Nordic-inspired police procedural set in remote Australia; a debut written by an established magazine writer; an ambitious and unsettling work…
Written by Jesper Stein, translated by David Young — Detective Alex Steen of the Copenhagen homicide division is a divorcee who still pines for his…
Saga Norén has become one of the iconic characters of Scandi noir TV, alongside Kurt Wallander and Sarah Lund. The meticulous Swedish detective with a…
Written by Chris Ould — Book three in this series set in the Faroe Islands sees the British detective Jan Reyna trying to find out more…
Nine o’clock, Saturday night. That’s when the UK’s legion of crime drama addicts switches over to BBC Four for new, subtitled crime shows from around…
Channel 4’s foreign crime drama service Walter Presents is wooing fans of Nordic noir once again this month with Norskov, the award-winning Danish crime show…
Written by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated by William Frost — Rigmor Zimmermann is dead. Bludgeoned. Her body has been found in the King’s Gardens in Copenhagen…
The Department Q series by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen is one of the best going. This division of the Copenhagen police force deals with the…
When it comes to Nordic noir, you’re unlikely to find a series quite like Department Q. Conceived by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, these books are…
Written by Peter Hoeg, translated by Martin Aitken — Susan Svendsen and her family are away in India. Not together, mind you. Her husband, Laban,…
Elsa Nygaard’s earliest memory is her mother’s murder, and the killer was Elsa’s father. She is now a single mother and ward of the state…
Long-term fans of Scandinavian crime fiction will know the name Peter Hoeg. He’s not a prolific author, but he wrote one of the defining books…
Written by Agnete Friis, translated by Lindy Falk van Rooyen — Ella Nygaard’s earliest memory is becoming an orphan when her father murdered her mother. However,…