Netflix has announced that Iben Hjejle (Dicte) and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (The Legacy) will star in its first original Danish drama, The Rain, which began filming on Monday June 26. Set after a devastating biological catastrophe, the series is created by Jannik Tai Mosholt (Borgen, Rita, Follow the Money), Esben Toft Jacobsen (The Great Bear,…
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Swedish Dicks is going to be the first Nordic TV drama series to be distributed worldwide and even better, the series features Keanu Reeves and Peter Stormare in leading roles as well Swedish Dicks is a part comedy and part drama series set in Los Angeles about Ingmar (Peter Stormare), a former stuntman who is trying…
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Film production company Exitfilm is currently working on turning Estonia's first gothic crime fiction "Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St. Olaf's Church" into a full feature film. According to the Estonian Public Broadcasting, the script is currently in development and an idea of creating a six-episode TV series based on the novels has also…
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Sara Blaedel worked as a newspaper journalist and television producer before founding the first dedicated crime fiction publishing house in Danish history. This inspired her to start writing her own series of detective novels, which have been published in ten countries around the world and hit the top of the Danish bestseller lists. She was…
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The Swedish Duo Roslund & Hellström are among those authors which we always follow at Mystery Tribune. In general, we have always had an interest in the crime fiction literature and authors from Scandinavia. However, no such coverage is complete without including the successful Swedish duo Roslund and Hellström. Anders Roslund is a professional journalist and…
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Fans of Scandinavian Crime Fiction, without a doubt, are familiar with the work of K. O. Dahl and Detective Frølich series (We recently reviewed The Fourth Man from the same author here). The Last Fix, an intricate psychological thriller from this master of Norwegian crimewriting— the latest in the Oslo Detective’s series is also an intriguing and…
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Camilla Läckberg is a Swedish crime novelist and equivalent of James Patterson (in sales volume) in Scandinavia. A common theme in Läckberg’s oeuvre is that all are traditionally set in or around her birthplace, the small Swedish west coast town of Fjällbacka (Fjällbacka means ‘mountain hill’ because the village is situated near the huge stone cliff).…
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