Best Swedish crime series

The Åre Murders (2025)

A Stockholm detective under internal investigation heads to a ski resort to unwind, until a young girl's disappearance compels her back to work.

Veckan med Camilla och Leif GW (2024)

Camilla Kvartoft and Leif GW Persson take on the hottest questions and the forgotten cases, with sharp analyses, initiated conversations and exclusive guests.

Jakten På En Mördare (1998)

Hammarvik (2020)

When police officer Johanna Strand returns to her hometown Hammarvik to attend her mother's funeral, she expects to stay only for a few nights but the body of a young woman is found and she decides to stay and investigate what happened.

Concordia (2024)

Powered by AI surveillance, CONCORDIA is the town of the future and on the verge of expansion when twin catastrophes strike: the first ever murder and a hack of its AI tech. A team race to solve both crimes but, in doing so, uncover a shocking original sin that could bring everything crumbling down.

Tjuv och polis (2019)

The Bridge (2011)

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

The Glass Dome (2025)

When her friend's daughter goes missing, criminologist Lejla joins the search — and must confront the haunting trauma of her own childhood abduction.

Before We Die (2017)

The police woman Hanna Svensson has a strained relationship to her son after having arrested him for drug dealing. Her married police man lover disappears, possibly kidnapped by MC gangs, although ties to Bosnia also appear.

The Sandhamn Murders (2010)

Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.

The Truth Will Out (2018)

Could Sweden’s most notorious killer be innocent? Detective Peter Wendel struggles to hold together his fractured psyche – and mismatched cold case team – while uncovering the truth of a cryptic message.

Beck (1999)

Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

Black Lake (2016)

An unsettling chain of events are set into motion when a group of young friends an visit an abandoned ski resort in the far reaches of Sweden. The remote and neglected Black Lake has been closed for years when Johan invites his friends to stay there. He dreams of reopening the isolated hotel and restoring it to a luxury ski resort, but what begins as a fun research trip soon takes a sinister turn as the group is gripped by a series of unexplained and disturbing events. They soon uncover the real reason Black Lake was abandoned all those years before, and solving the mystery rapidly becomes a matter of life and death.

The Hunters (2018)

Erik returns to the northernmost of Sweden after a lifetime with Stockholm police save The Hunters (1996) and False Trail (2011). Retirement doesn't become him so he helps his nephew Peter, a rookie at the local police.

Arne Dahl (2011)

An elite, seven-member team is tasked with solving the most complex crimes in Sweden, from murder and drug trafficking to espionage.

The Hunt for a Killer (2020)

Based on true stories about real homicide investigations in the south of Sweden between 1989-2004. A reality-based crime drama about the policeman Per-Åke Åkesson and the reconnaissance group that was tasked with investigating several murders of women in northeastern Skåne. The series starts in Hörby in 1989.

The Lawyer (2018)

Frank Nordling is a young and exceptionally promising defense lawyer. When Frank learns the truth behind his parents' death, his whole world unravels. As children, Frank and his sister Sara witnessed their parents die in an explosion caused by a car bomb. As Frank finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman. In order to avenge his parents Frank must infiltrate Waldman's organization and become his personal lawyer and trusted confidant. To avoid putting those close to him in danger, Frank has to keep up appearances and play the game. But can he handle it? Is it worth the price? And who's really tricking whom?

Stockholm Requiem (2018)

A series of violent murders paralyze Stockholm. Private investigator Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues seek out to solve these crimes, but soon their existence is put under threat.

Snow Angels (2021)

Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.

Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter (2012)

Annika Bengtzon is a journalist and working mother of two struggling to keep her marriage alive. Fearless in her search for the truth, she won't take no for an answer from anyone: not from prestigious academicians, or drug dealers or from colleagues inside her own profession. Her passion for getting the story may bring her into dangerous situations, but it ultimately allows her to peer into the heart of every crime. Annika's not afraid to square off with hardened criminals, but her toughest challenge seems to be trying to balance the job with her sometimes tumultuous private life.

Agatha Christie's Hjerson (2021)

Swedish murder investigator Sven Hjerson forms an unexpected detective duo with stubborn TV producer Klara after several years of isolation. Will she also manage to recruit him for her new TV show?

Blind Spot (2025)

A heavy snowstorm, a train collides with an avalanche forcing passengers to shelter in an isolated mountain hotel. A suspended police officer finds herself investigating mysterious murders occurring there.

The Zone (1996)

The Military evacuates a zone in the Lapland mountains, under the pretext that there is an ongoing exercise. The district doctor gets suspicious when one of his patients, who lived inside the zone, suddenly dies. The body disappears without a trace.

Polisen i Strömstad (1982)

Kvinnan i det låsta rummet (1998)

Axel is unemployed and works illegally in an apartment. The young Linnéa who lives there has completely isolated herself from the outside world. Why does she stay locked up?

Kniven i hjärtat (2004)

A love drama between two young people in a suburb. The story also depicts young people's everyday life in a multicultural society with all its ingredients: love, hate, joy and sorrow.

Quicksand (2019)

After a tragedy at a school sends shock waves through a wealthy Stockholm suburb, a seemingly well-adjusted teen finds herself on trial for murder.

A Nearly Normal Family (2023)

The world of a seemingly perfect family shatters when a shocking murder proves that they're willing to make desperate moves to protect one another.

The Breakthrough (2025)

When a shocking double homicide goes unsolved for 16 years, a detective teams up with a genealogist to catch the killer before it becomes a cold case.

Clark (2022)

This is the incredible story behind Sweden's most notorious gangster, Clark Olofsson, whose infamous crimes gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome".