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Finnish crime show All the Sins comes to Channel 4

19 January, 2021

For legions of crime fiction lovers, there’s nothing quite like discovering a new crime show. It’s even better if that show opens a window on an unusual setting, and better still if that setting is remote and unsettling. UK crime aficionados will be able to…

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Winterkill

By crimefictionlover

12 January, 2021

The sixth and possibly final novel in Ragnar Jonasson‘s Dark Iceland series might just be the best. It’s the writing that’s so captivating – thanks in part to translator David Warriner, but also because of the considered way Ragnar highlights the issues that surround a…

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Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders season 2 comes to More4

By crimefictionlover

5 January, 2021

On Friday 8 January at 9pm, the second series of the Swedish crime drama Rebecka Martinsson will begin airing on More4 in the UK, with episodes available to stream from Channel 4’s online service Walter Presents. Set in the far north of Sweden, the programme…

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Smoke Screen by Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger

By RoughJustice

23 December, 2020

Translated by Megan Turney — Oslo’s New Year’s Eve festivities are disrupted by a terrorist attack. The climactic fireworks display is interrupted by an explosion. A bomb, hidden in a rubbish bin at the riverside, has been remotely triggered; luckily most of the force of…

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Snowdrift by Helene Tursten

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 December, 2020

Translated by Marlaine Delargy — Detective Inspector Embla Nyström returns in the third instalment of Helene Tursten’s series based on the detective. Snowdrift picks up only eight days after the end of 2019’s Winter Grave when Embla receives a call from her childhood friend, Louise…

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Winterkill by Ragnar Jonasson

By crimefictionlover

15 December, 2020

Translated by David Warriner — Arguably the finest novel in the Dark Iceland series, Winterkill sees Icelandic author Ragnar Jonasson writing as smoothly, confidently and incisively as ever. From page one, you’ll glide into the mystery of a young woman’s death and the detailed investigation…

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Monster: Norwegian crime show brings bleak perfection to Channel 4

By crimefictionlover

10 December, 2020

Ominous mists roll across a treeless wasteland. The unnerving growl of an untrustworthy dog. A young woman’s bare feet on the tarmac. A meth head stands in his underwear, flipping the bird to a police helicopter. And Norwegian dialogue subbed into English. If it’s a…

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The Sommerdahl Murders on DVD

By crimefictionlover

1 December, 2020

US-based fans of Nordic noir might be celebrating Christmas early this year. That’s because on 8 December, Acorn TV is releasing The Sommerdahl Murders on DVD, and on the company’s streaming channel. This popular Danish crime drama centres on Dan Sommerdahl, played by Peter Mygind….

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Finnish crime show All the Sins comes to Channel 4

Winterkill

Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders season 2 comes to More4

Smoke Screen by Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger

Snowdrift by Helene Tursten

Winterkill by Ragnar Jonasson

Monster: Norwegian crime show brings bleak perfection to Channel 4

The Sommerdahl Murders on DVD

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