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The Team is back as Euro crime returns to Walter Presents

29 October, 2019

When cross-border collaboration is needed to crack a case, Europol forms a team of detectives from different countries – and that’s exactly what happens after the violent opening sequences of The Team season 2, which will begin airing on UK channel More4 and Walter Presents…

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Darkness: Those Who Kill – New Danish crime drama on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

26 August, 2019

Longtime readers of Crime Fiction Lover and Nordic noir aficionados may recognise the title Those Who Kill. Back in 2011, we reported on this promising Danish crime show about a specialist Copenhagen-based team devoted to investigating serial killers. With Darkness: Those Who Kill, the show…

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Follow the Money season 3 is on the way...

By crimefictionlover

19 March, 2019

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. But, like one of its main characters, the show has had a makeover. Mergers and buy-outs with assassins lingering on…

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Greyzone – high-tech Nordic noir coming to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

6 February, 2019

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 run its course, fans are looking for the next big thing. So let us introduce Greyzone, a new thriller where…

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After the Death of Ellen Keldberg by Eddie Thomas Petersen

By nagaisayonara

17 September, 2018

Translated by Toby Bainton — British publisher Handheld Press has developed a reputation for putting out carefully selected works in a range of genres, including a couple of upcoming thrillers in its Handheld Modern list. The first, published this month, is a translation of a 2013…

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A Willing Executioner

By nagaisayonara

8 August, 2018

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 containing a couple of the most uniquely gruesome murders you’ll encounter in fiction this year. A Willing Executioner is a…

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Unrest

By Jeremy Megraw

24 July, 2018

Written by Jesper Stein, translated by David Young — Detective Alex Steen of the Copenhagen homicide division is a divorcee who still pines for his ex-wife and uses hashish to mitigate his insomnia. He lives in Norrebro, in one the worst neighborhoods in the city….

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The Bridge IIII: Every Saga has its end

By crimefictionlover

24 April, 2018

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 forthright way about her will begin her final case on British screens as BBC Two airs The Bridge IIII. The…

Crime Fiction Lover

The Team is back as Euro crime returns to Walter Presents

Darkness: Those Who Kill – New Danish crime drama on BBC Four

Follow the Money season 3 is on the way...

Greyzone – high-tech Nordic noir coming to Walter Presents

After the Death of Ellen Keldberg by Eddie Thomas Petersen

A Willing Executioner

Unrest

The Bridge IIII: Every Saga has its end

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