Scandinavian crime fiction

Finnish crime drama Man in Room 301 coming to BBC Four

10 February, 2021

For the past few years, it seems as though Scandinavian crime shows have been losing their way a little bit. Few have managed to excite fans in the same way that Wallander, The Killing and The Bridge did when they first appeared. In 2021, that’s…

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Danish crime show Deliver Us arrives on Channel 4 and All 4

By crimefictionlover

27 January, 2021

In most crime dramas, the bad guy kills the victim and then the good guys try to identify and catch the bad guy. Or girl. Deliver Us is a 2019 Scandinavian crime show that mixes things up a bit. In a small community in rural…

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Finnish crime show All the Sins comes to Channel 4

By crimefictionlover

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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Finnish crime drama Man in Room 301 coming to BBC Four

Danish crime show Deliver Us arrives on Channel 4 and All 4

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

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