Scandinavian crime fiction

Justice: Those Who Kill on iPlayer and Prime

21 November, 2024

The Danish criminal profiler Louise Bergstein returns to help her police colleagues try to solve a spate of gangland killings in Justice: Those Who Kill, now available on the BBC iPlayer and Amazon Prime. It’s the fourth season in the series, which stars Natalie Madueño…

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Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

17 October, 2024

Translated by Robert Ferguson — In 2020, the leading Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo took a diversion from his Harry Hole detective novels and created The Kingdom, a Scandinavian answer to rural noir. Inside, he introduced us to Roy and Carl Opgard, brothers with some…

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Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2024

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — If you haven’t read the first Kalmann novel, first published in 2022, you’ll probably find the opening section its sequel quite disorientating. Ever if you have read it, you may still feel that way. The story is told from…

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Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

8 July, 2024

Sometimes, it seems, magnetic north has a pull that is more than just ionic. For Swiss crime fiction author Joachim B Schmidt, this was certainly the case and after falling in love with the place as a teenager he emigrated there in 2007. It’s where…

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End of Summer: New Swedish crime series comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

5 July, 2024

It’s July at the time of writing – the perfect time of year for the Swedish crime show End of Summer to arrive with subtitles on BBC Four. From 9pm on Saturday 6 July, viewers in the UK will be able to enjoy double episodes…

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The Sommerdahl Murders: Danish crime drama comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

26 June, 2024

Ah, Helsingør, the ancient Danish town where Hamlet was prince, and it’s the setting too for drama of a different ilk as The Sommerdahl Murders arrives in Britain on More4 at 9pm on Friday 28 June 2024. It will also be available on Channel 4’s…

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Jana: Marked for Life – new Swedish crime drama on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

5 June, 2024

Child assassins, human trafficking and buried memories are just a handful of the themes that come to the fore in Jana: Marked for Life, the new Swedish crime series that arrives on BBC Four in the UK starting Saturday 8 June, 2024. Lovers of Nordic…

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Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

By Paul Burke

7 May, 2024

Translated by Quentin Bates — Last year, Stella Blómkvist made their debut in English with Murder at the Residence and we discovered that the author’s identity is a mystery, even among the Icelandic writing community, which seems quite amazing. Now as second novel from this…

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Justice: Those Who Kill on iPlayer and Prime

Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

End of Summer: New Swedish crime series comes to BBC Four

The Sommerdahl Murders: Danish crime drama comes to Walter Presents

Jana: Marked for Life – new Swedish crime drama on BBC Four

Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

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