It’s high summer in Scandinavia. Hanne Wilhelmsen finds herself, much against her will, at her family’s newly purchased, stately summer cabin by Viksfjord in Vestfold. Summer guests come and go, and one high pressure after another sweeps over southern Norway. Everything is pure idyll. For everyone except Hanne.

Two years have passed without Hanne participating in any investigations, and the police chief himself has banned her from being involved in new ones. The idleness is getting on the nerves of both Hanne and her family. But then an elderly woman is found dead, naked in a bathtub, deep in Maridalen in Oslo. The deceased turns out to be an acquaintance of the Wilhelmsen’s cabin neighbor, the shy crime author Kristine Hoff. To escape a cabin full of parties and guests, Hanne quickly seeks refuge in Kristine’s cool, shady garden. A strange friendship develops, and Hanne Wilhelmsen is once again to prove that she surpasses most when it comes to digging up old secrets and solving new crimes.

Diamonds and Rust is a story about wounds that never heal, about envy, betrayal and revenge, and about a crime so well and thoroughly thought out that it may never be solved. Not unless Hanne Wilhelmsen gets a chance to try.

One day in October, William Wisting is informed that Erik Kaplin is being released. Kaplin has served 18 years for murder and has drawn up a death list of those he holds responsible for his conviction. At the top of that list is Wisting’s name.

At the same time, Wisting is given responsibility for his grandchild, as his daughter Line travels to South Africa to create a podcast about a little-known chapter in the past of Adrian Stiller, the new head of the Cold Case Unit at Kripos. His high school sweetheart, Julia Delcourt, vanished many years ago without a trace. Line wants to revisit the story to understand what really happened, and to learn what drives Stiller to devote his life to solving cold cases.

As Wisting tries to maintain a normal life while looking after his grandchild, his former boss suddenly dies. What initially appears to be a natural death turns out to have links to an old missing person case — one that now lies on Stiller’s desk.

As secrets come to light, new and old threads begin to intertwine. And at the center of it all stands Wisting, burdened with a responsibility he never asked for, but cannot walk away from.

The Last Case is the eighteenth installment in Jørn Lier Horst’s William Wisting series.

Försvararna is based on an original idea by author Jens Lapidus and follows two friends who run a successful law firm together. The lead roles, Sasha and Kalle, are played by Arvin Kananian and Björn Bengtsson.

The story kicks off when Sasha becomes personally involved in a rape case, and Kalle takes on one of the most high-profile organized crime cases in modern times, shaking both their worlds to the core.

Ken Ring and Simon Superti will make their acting debuts in Försvararna. The artists will portray gang leaders Amir and Omar.

SkyShowtime is preparing a major drama adaptation of Johanna Hedman’s debut novel Trion. The series will centre around Thora, a wealthy young woman, and her boyfriend August, as their lives intersect with Hugo, an older acquaintance who becomes an unexpected houseguest in Thora’s family home.

Among the lead cast are Rebecka Harper, August Wittgenstein and Felix Sandman.

Filming is already underway, with Veronica Zacco penning the script and Anders Hazelius directing.

The Swedish rom-com Diary of a Ditched Girl is set to premiere globally on Netflix on September 11, and has already been met with rave reviews.

Adapted from Amanda Romare’s popular novel Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig, the series follows Amanda, a 31-year-old girl navigating through a labyrinth of first-date flops, heartaches, and app-fueled romances as she tries to figure out why love seems so elusive in the modern dating world.

The series is directed by Emma Bucht and Susanne Thorson, with Tove Eriksen Hillblom and Moa Herngren as screenwriters.

Carla Sehn leads the ensemble as Amanda, and the supporting cast features Moah Madsen, Dilan Apak, Malou Marnfeldt, Zahraa Aldoujaili, Ingela Olsson och Torkel Petersson.

Stefan has decided to paint one final apartment before he is going to die. The dreams of a family and his own painting business are long gone. His best friend no longer picks up the phone, and silence settles over the life that was.

Once, he shared a table with the small-town elite, but somewhere after a successful Midsummer Eve and a catastrophic crayfish party, he made a decision that would change everything.

Karin Magnusson’s debut novel Broken White is a warm and honest story about class, heritage, and the price tag we put on life. About the dues we carry from a life that could have turned out differently.

The Helicopter Heist, directed by Daniel Espinosa, was awarded Best Drama Series last night at the Kristallen Awards.

The Helicopter Heist premiered on Netflix in November 2024 to fantastic reviews. The reality-based suspense series is based on Jonas Bonnier’s novel of the same name and stars Mahmut Suvakci, Ardalan Esmaili, Iskra Kostic, Erik Svedberg-Zelman, Johanna Hedberg and Nina Mårshagen, among others.

Egghead Republic, the latest feature from Swedish directorial duo Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, will see its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 4. It will be released theatrically in Sweden on November 21.

Freaky science fiction collides with a ruthless satire of gonzo journalism and indie-sleaze excess in this audacious feature. Even in an alternate timeline where the Cold War burned hot enough for an atomic bomb to fall on Soviet Kazakhstan, there persists a familiar constant: the unpaid internship. For Sonja Schmidt (Ella Rae Rappaport), it is thanks to this “exposure” economy that she is persuaded by hipper-than-thou culture mogul Dino Davis (Tyler Labine) to accompany a gonzo journalistic expedition to a joint Soviet/American military base that monitors a Kazak radioactive zone — one rumoured to be rife with irradiated centaurs.