Jo Nesbo, a Norwegian crime writer whose Harry Hole mystery books have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and gave rise to many internet memes in 2017 when his terrible English-language version of Nesbo’s The Snowman was released, is partnering with Netflix.
Based on Nesbo’s novel The Devil’s Star, the fifth in his Harry Hole series about the obsessive, clever, but introverted titular murder detective, Harry Hole (working title), a new Nordic noir series premiered on Netflix on Monday.
The Norwegian series will be produced by Working Title, and Oystein Karlsen, whose recent drama So Long Marianne, based on Leonard Cohen, will be directing. SeriesMania opens this week. Nesbo’s The Snowman was adapted into an English-language film by Working Title in 2017.
Among the highlights of Netflix’s Next on Nordic program, which was unveiled in Stockholm on Monday, was Harry Hole. Two new Swedish television shows are The New Force a drama set in the 1950s about the first female graduates of Sweden’s police academy, and an adaptation of Amanda Romare’s novel Diary of a Ditched Girl starring Carla Sehn (Sjukt, Love & Anarchy) as a thirtysomething seeking to find love in the dangerous world of modern dating.
A second season of Netflix’s Swedish female crime thriller series Barracuda Queens a feature film adaptation of Antti Tuomainen’s Finnish criminal comedy novel Little Siberia and a film version of Alex Ahndoril’s Swedish whodunit The Key Series were also announced.