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Swedish crime show Beck returns to BBC Four for season 8

15 June, 2021

It’s been a long time since Martin Beck was last on our screens. Back in 2018, BBC Four ran series seven of the Swedish police procedural crime drama, which lasted just four episodes. Having said that, they were doozies. Now, the Corporation is busy writing…

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Swedish crime show Before We Die returns for season 2

By crimefictionlover

25 February, 2020

Back in 2017, the Swedish crime show Before We Die made its UK debut with subtitles on Channel 4. It was a big hit with Crime Fiction Lover readers, who will be pleased to know that the intense, Stockholm-based cop show is returning to Channel…

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A Very Scandi Scandal – Nordic noir caper comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

20 November, 2019

Arriving on the Channel 4 streaming service Walter Presents from 6 December, A Very Scandi Scandal offers a different perspective on Nordic noir with a hilarious Stockholm-based heist. Rather than bagging awards for suspense or drama, here’s a show that won Best Comedy at Sweden’s…

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First look: The Girl Who Danced with Death graphic novel

By crimefictionlover

10 January, 2019

Look away now if you think the work of dead authors shouldn’t be touched. But if you want to know what might have happened next to Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist then this new graphic novel from Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime…

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Quicksand

By DeathBecomesHer

6 July, 2018

Written by Malin Persson Giolito, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles — Colorado, Las Vegas, Florida – mass shootings are seen as an American phenomenon, but eight years ago Norway witnessed one of the worst such events and it is a Scandinavian book that is one of…

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Before We Die - new Swedish crime show on Channel 4

By crimefictionlover

22 December, 2017

On 16 January Scandinavian crime fiction will return to Channel 4 with Before We Die. Set in Stockholm and starring Marie Richardson and Adam Pålsson, the show is about an uncompromising woman cop who is being lined up for early retirement when her colleague and…

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The Dying Detective by Leif GW Persson

By Jeremy Megraw

30 November, 2016

Translated by Neil Smith — As retired detective Lars Martin Johansson, a living legend in the Swedish National Police Force, approaches his favourite hot dog kiosk in Stockholm, he hasn’t a care in the world except to savour his favorite lunch ritual. Will it be…

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The Crow Girl

By crimefictionlover

7 July, 2016

Written by a pair of Swedes using the pseudonym Erik Axl Sund, The Crow Girl is the next big thing in Scandinavian crime fiction. Vast, dark, atmospheric and tackling all manner of big themes, it actually collects together three separately published novels in one fabulous…

Crime Fiction Lover

Swedish crime show Beck returns to BBC Four for season 8

Swedish crime show Before We Die returns for season 2

A Very Scandi Scandal – Nordic noir caper comes to Walter Presents

First look: The Girl Who Danced with Death graphic novel

Quicksand

Before We Die - new Swedish crime show on Channel 4

The Dying Detective by Leif GW Persson

The Crow Girl

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