A night with Jo Nesbø in Dublin's RDS

Best-selling Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø visits Dublin this April in an event marking the launch of the International Literature Festival Dublin.

More drama from Iceland: season 2 of 'Fortitude'

Iceland is increasingly the setting of psychological thrillers and crime dramas on the small screen, and more are in the pipeline.

Peter Harness on adapting Wallander for the BBC

Kenneth Branagh returns tonight as Inspector Kurt Wallander in the first of three new feature-length episodes of the BBC series.

Peter Harness, who wrote all three episodes of the 2012 season and two episodes from this season, talks about the final series and Henning Mankell's novels.

Anna Friel in Nordic-style thriller 'Marcella'

Anna Friel plays a London police detective in the eight-part crime drama Marcella, coming soon to ITV.

Interview with 'Trapped' star Olafur

Olafur Darri Olafsson, who plays the smalltown police chief in Trapped, talked recently to BBC Radio 4 about the Icelandic drama's "surprise" success and snowstorms. Trapped is currently broadcast on BBC Four and RTÉ 2 on Saturday nights.

Swedish crime thriller 'Modus' for BBC 4

Fremantle Media has announced that BBC Four has acquired Modus, an eight-part crime thriller from Sweden.

Last chapter for Brannagh's Wallander

The BBC still won't say when it will show the fourth and final season of Kenneth Branagh's adapatation of the Wallander series.

Sean Kinsella, the Norwegian noir translator

His name may be unfamiliar to most Irish fans of Nordic noir, but Seán Kinsella is a leading translator of Norwegian crime fiction into English.

Video: Sofie Gråbøl at Nordicana 2015

Henning Mankell (3 Feb 1948 – 5 Oct 2015)

"In life and in art Henning Mankell was a man of passionate commitment. I will miss his provocative intelligence and his great personal generosity. Aside from his stringent political activism, and his decades of work in Africa, he also leaves an immense contribution to Scandinavian literature."

- Kenneth Branagh, the third actor to play Wallander, pays tribute in a statement issued to the media yesterday after the death of the Swedish author.

A Boston and Irish writing duo

Full Irish (2014) is an unusual transatlantic collaboration between authors Susanne O'Leary (based in Ireland) and Pete Morin (in Boston), about a murder investigation that spans their two countries.

Film version of 'Spring Tide' by the Börjlinds

One of the next big Scandi noir series in the pipeline is the adaptation of Springfloden (Spring Tide), the debut novel of Cilla and Rolf Börjlind.

RI Olufsen, alias Roisin McAuley

Broadcaster and author Roisin McAuley has taken the suitably Scandinavian-sounding pen name RI Olufsen for her new thriller Bogman (2015). It's the first in a series featuring Danish detective Tobias Lange.

When a mummified foot, a pile of bones and a split skull are discovered in a Danish bog in East Jutland, the remains turn out to be a young man beaten to death about two decades ago. 

Chief Inspector Tobias Lange finds himself on the trail of eco-warriors, Sami protesters safeguarding reindeer rights, and a disaffected young woman estranged from her family. 

Then another incomplete set of human bones turns up, then another...

'Martin Beck' for BBC 4

BBC 4 is to screen Swedish crime thriller series Beck, loosely based on the Martin Beck detective novels.

The highly influential books by writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö were originally published between 1965 and Wahlöö's death in 1975.

'An Inspector Calls' returns to Gaiety

J.B. Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls returns to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin from 27-31 October 2015.

New Scandi thriller's Irish connections

100 Code, the new Scandi-crime series created by Robert Moresco (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), has several strong Irish connections.

Arne Dahl for Malahide

Leading Swedish novelist Arne Dahl will be in Malahide in north Dublin this September to talk about his best-selling "Intercrime" series.

The success of Nordic Noir (in a nutshell)

New to Nordic Noir? This short video explains why Scandinavian crime fiction has become such a global success.

Kerstin Bergman from Lund University in Sweden also recommends some lesser known Swedish authors to include in your summer reading.

A beginners' guide to Nordic noir

Barry Forshaw is the author of the authoritative guide Nordic Noir (2013) and also runs the Crimetime website. In this video he gives a quick tour of the Scandinavian crime fiction scene, from Sweden to Iceland.

Sofie Gråbøl, Sofia Helin for Nordicana fest

Guests at the third "Nordicana" Nordic noir festival in London this June include The Bridge’s leading lady Sofia Helin and Sofie Gråbøl (Sarah Lund in three seasons of The Killing).