The Doctrine, a political thriller series adapted from Magnus Montelius’ novel Eight Months, premiered on TV4 on November 12, and the first three episodes are now available for streaming on TV4 Play.

The Doctrine has received fantastic reviews and Johan Widerberg has been praised for his role as Erik Nisser. Svenska Dagbladet annunciates that Widerberg should be “nominated for every single acting award available for his portrayal of a grumpy hack.”

The six-part series is written by Jens Jonsson who is also directing together with Johan Lundin. The cast features Johan Widerberg together with Josefine Neldén, August Wittgenstein, Anna Sise, Sissela Kyle och Krista Kosonen.

Martin Widmark and Helena Willis’ The Space Mystery, the thirty-third installment in the JerryMaya Detective Agency series, is shortlisted for the 2024 Spårhunden Award, presented by the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers for the year’s best Swedish children’s and young adult crime fiction.

The winner will be announced on December 1.

Prime Video has released a first teaser clip for the anticipated TV series Blindspår. For the first time ever, one of Anne Holt’s most beloved characters, Hanne Wilhelmsen, will come to life on the TV screen. The series is freely based on Anne Holt’s acclaimed best-selling novel 1222 and stars Ida Engvoll, Pål Sverre Hagen, Kjell Bergqvist, Sissela Kyle, Fabian Penje and Elli Osborne.

The series begins in the midst of a raging snowstorm when a train traveling from Stockholm to Narvik collides with an avalanche. All passengers are forced to take shelter at the old, isolated mountain hotel nearby. Among them is the sharp-witted and morose police officer Hanne Wilhelmsen. Once at the hotel, several mysterious murders occur. Although Hanne is temporarily suspended from the police, she begins to investigate the murders with the help of doctor Magnus.

The script is written by Sara Heldt together with director Erik Skjoldberg. Blindspår is set to premiere in January 2025.

Anne Holt’s Twelve Untamed Horses, the twelfth installment in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, is shortlisted for the prestigious 2024 Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for ‘Best Translated Crime Novel’. Twelve Untamed Horses is translated by Barbro Lagergren.

The winner will be announced on December 1st.

Old friends reunite for a crayfish party in the remote outer archipelago of Stockholm. The last time they were together was years ago, when the reality show they worked on ended in tragedy.

As the schnapps flow and tensions rise, a violent storm sweeps in. Strange signs suggest they are not alone on the island, and when one of them is found murdered, the festive gathering spirals into a desperate fight for survival. Has the past finally caught up with them? And is the killer someone among them?

The Crayfish Party is a cinematic thriller about secrets, guilt, and revenge. With a focus on complex relationships and page-turning tension, Martin Österdahl has created a claustrophobic chamber play in five acts.

Norwegian director and writer Iram Haq (b. 1976) is one of Scandinavia’s most intriguing and prominent filmmakers.

Haq has a successful career as an actor, both on stage and in feature and TV films. In 2004 she took the leap from actor to filmmaker when she wrote and starred in the short film Old Faithful which was selected for the Short Film Competition at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. A few years later came her directorial debut with the awarded short Little Miss Eyeflap (2009) which saw its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and then went on to screen at numerous film festivals.

In 2013, Haq’s first feature film I am Yours premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to great acclaim, and was later selected as Norway’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. Her second feature What Will People Say (2017) also premiered in Toronto where it was highly praised, and reaped multiple prestigious titles, including Best Film, Best Direction and Best Screenplay at the Amanda Awards. Again, Haq’s feature was chosen as Norway’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

Furthermore, Haq has also written several novels, including What Will People Say and Little Miss Eyeflap which both are based on her films of the same names, and Unloved which was published in 2021 to fantastic reviews.

Leo Asker has started to get the Department of Lost Souls in order, and a promotion is within reach. However, the vengeful Jonas Hellman cannot accept this and tempts Asker with a cold case he’s sure will break her.

It concerns a decade-old murder of a woman in an abandoned barn, where the method bears eerie similarities to a body buried in the same forest two thousand years earlier. The case resurfaces when a confused young woman surprises some urban explorers at the crime scene, holding the severed finger of the victim.

Once again, Asker turns to Martin Hill for help in solving the puzzle with the seemingly mythological ties back to the Iron Age. What secrets are hidden in the Rust Forest?

The Rust Forest is the third installment in the bestselling Leo Asker Series.

“The first time I left my body, my mom’s friend was lying on top of me. I awoke to a sliver of light streaming in through a crack in the door, and I saw a shadow move across the room, settling over me. The darkness felt heavy, as if it were swallowing me whole, erasing me from existence, but of course, I had no words for it then.”

A young woman dies repeatedly and travels in time, tasked with saving the world’s richest people from accidents or attacks, thus prolonging their lives. After being raised in foster homes, she was sent to a school run by a powerful company, where she was prepared for this brutal life’s work. But one day, the company’s very existence is threatened, bringing unpredictable consequences for her and the people she loves.

Golem is a gripping story set in a dark and ruthless future where dissent is stifled before it begins.