Tag Archives | Crime Scene

KILL THE FATHER BY SANDRONE DAZIERI • (Simon & Schuster) Out now When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son vanishes, police assigned to the case assume an abusive husband is the culprit. However, the Chief of Rome’s Major Crimes Unit has his doubts, and lures Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli—on […]

The Team — Series 1 (Nordic Noir & Beyond) Out Now When crime no longer stops at international borders, police forces in different countries have to work together; that’s the premise behind Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm’s The Team which, while lacking the innocent exuberance of 1980s’ action series The A-Team, is a solid attempt […]

Revenge thriller The Library Suicides was an important personal project to director Euros Lyn, not least because his debut feature film was an opportunity to tell an unusual story in his native language. How did you get involved with a film adaptation of Fflur Dafydd’s best-selling Welsh-language novel Y Llyfgell? Fflur contacted me; she was […]

CRASH LAND BY DOUG JOHNSTONE • (Faber & Faber) 3 November 2016 An iconic character through much Western fiction, but especially crime noir, is the “femme fatale”—the beautiful, mysterious, seductive woman who turns the hero’s life upside down. It’s not an archetype Doug Johnstone, exploring the edges of domestic noir, has used before, but his approach […]

BECK – THE SERIES, VOLUME 2 (Nordic Noir) Available now. “A person doesn’t have to be evil just because they do evil things.” It’s precisely the subtle philosophical maturity that exemplifies the measured, contained approach that Swedish detective drama Beck invariably displays. Packaged for the UK as the second volume of the Beck series, these […]

First published in Crime Scene #5. THE FJÄLLBACKA MURDERS (Arrow Films) Out Now Following her parents’ deaths in a car accident, author Erica Falck (Claudia Galli) and her policeman husband inherit the parental home in the Swedish coastal town of Fjällbacka, described by their lawyer as “Paradise on Earth” but – as this first series of […]

First published in Crime Scene #4 TIME OF TORMENT BY JOHN CONNOLLY (Hodder & Stoughton). Out Now Fourteen novels and one novella on, John Connolly’s supernaturally tinged private investigator Charlie Parker – forever helping lost souls at the risk of his own – this time comes up against the Cut, an isolated and inbred community […]