It’s the morning after Oistra, the big oyster festival on Heimö, the main island of Doggerland. Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, and relizes she’s made a big big mistake…
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Smoke Screen is the second installment in the Blix & Ramm series, co-written by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger. It has an explosive opening when a bomb goes off during the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks in Oslo…
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Stina Jackson made an awarded debut with The Silver Road and now she is back with The Last Snow, another heartbreaking story set in northernmost Sweden with its endless forests, long roads and abandoned houses…
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Early one morning, a paperboy on his route in the center of Copenhagen city stumbles upon a macabre find: the body of a dead woman, floating in a fountain. Cause of death? Exsanguination – the draining of all the blood in her body…
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When it comes to Nordic Noir most people probably think of books, but there are a whole lot of really good crime fiction television dramas too – and I would like to highlight some of my favourites…
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Little Siberia is a highly original, dark and funny story by Antti Tuomainen. A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite…
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Winterkill is said to be the final book in the Dark Iceland series, so this may be the last time we hear about Ari Thór Arason and Siglufjörður. Easter is approaching when a young a young girl falls to her death from a balcony…
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Snowdrift is the third installment in Helene Tursten’s classic crime fiction series featuring Embla Nyström and picks up only eight days after the end of Winter Grave, where Embla received a shocking call…
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The first season of the Icelandic television drama Trapped is set against a dramatic and snowy backdrop. A floating limbless and headless corpse is hauled in by a fishing boat just as the ferry from Denmark arrives into a remote Icelandic seaport…
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Violent blizzards and heavy snowfall, long, dark and cold nights in vast and desolate landscapes. You could hardly imagine a more perfect setting for crime fiction novels – and there are some really good ones…
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