Must watch: The Snowman trailer
We like how this looks, it’s out in the UK on 13 October 2017, and that’s all we have to say about it. Check out our guide to the Harry Hole series here.
A guide to Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series
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 dark and unflinchingly brutal, full of social commentary, yet also manage big doses of madcap, laugh-out-loud humour. They have proven…
Norway's Valkyrien comes to Walter Presents
Over the past couple of years, Channel 4’s overseas crime drama unit Walter Presents has discovered an array of hit shows from around the world and brought them to English-speaking audiences with subtitles. Walter’s latest must-watch Nordic noir programme that’ll have you hooked is Valkyrien,…
Video: Arne Dahl talks about Watching You
The Killing. Hinterland. The Bridge. Trapped. Most crime shows have a slightly foreboding title. But when the Swedes decided to base a TB series on Arne Dahl’s Intercrime novels, they simply named it after the author. Maybe you watched it on BBCFour? Perhaps you’ve read…
First look: Henning Mankell's final novel
When Henning Mankell passed away in October 2015, we knew that he had already wrapped up his detective character Wallander‘s story. What we didn’t know at the time was that he had written another standalone crime novel. Now that book, After the Fire, has been…
Watching You
Written by Arne Dahl, translated by Neil Smith — Right out of the gate, Arne Dahl’s latest screenplay-ready Nordic noir thriller holds fast and never lets go. In its tense first pages, Detective Sam Berger and his assault team are in position, ready to storm…
The Shadow District
Arnaldur Indridason has started a new series of crime novels set during World War II, and they’re worth tuning in for, as The Shadow District proves. A young woman has been found dead behind the country’s National Theatre in Reykjavik and Icelandic detective Flovent works…