First look: The Girl Who Danced with Death graphic novel
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…
Interview: Will Dean
Originally from the East Midlands in the UK, Will Dean now lives in a wooden house he built in the middle of a Swedish forest. He uses the authenticity of this setting to write crime fiction novels that seem as true to the Nordic noir…
Season seven of Beck comes to BBC Four
The Swedish crime series Beck, based on the Martin Beck novels by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, is returning to BBC Four more than 20 years after it first began in 1997. Made intermittently over the years, the programme is reaching season seven with four…
Alex - the dirty cop crime drama from Sweden
Love your Scandinavian crime fiction? Head over to Walter Presents and you’ll be able to stream the six-episode series, Alex, complete with English subtitles. Also showing on Channel 4 until 31 October, it’s a Swedish cop show that’s a little bit different. Instead of bringing…
Quicksand
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…
Dark Pines by Will Dean
Tuva Moodyson hates the woods. And that’s too bad for her, because she lives in Gavrik, surrounded by the Utgard Forest – several hundred square kilometres of boggy muskeg and pines. But it’s not that. It’s more to do with the fact that her father…
The Bridge IIII: Every Saga has its end
Saga Norén has become one of the iconic characters of Scandi noir TV, alongside Kurt Wallander and Sarah Lund. The meticulous Swedish detective with a forthright way about her will begin her final case on British screens as BBC Two airs The Bridge IIII. The…