Scandinavian crime fiction

We Got This out now on DVD

1 April, 2021

Now here’s a Swedish crime drama that sounds a bit different to the morose and moody Nordic noir we know and love. We Got This is the story of an American in Stockholm called George English. George is going to set out to solve the…

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Rebecka Martinsson series 2 on DVD

By crimefictionlover

17 February, 2021

Season two of the acclaimed Swedish crime show Rebecka Martinsson has arrived on DVD in the US and Canada, courtesy of Acorn TV. Over eight episodes, Rebecka will tackle four cases, with Sascha Zacharias taking over to star in the lead role. Having returned to…

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Finnish crime drama Man in Room 301 coming to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

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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We Got This out now on DVD

Rebecka Martinsson series 2 on DVD

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

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