No one does murder better than the Swedes. Murder investigations, we mean, those of the fictional kind. Anyone who's seen Swedish crime shows like Wallander or Beck can easily attest to that. To ...

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An Indian restaurant boss has told of his shock after a "crowbar wielding" intruder broke into his County Durham restaurant and snatched £2,000 in cash. Ali Bahar, owner of Bengal Lounge in ...

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What is it about January that makes TV bosses reach for their gloomiest material? New crime drama The Crow Girl on Paramount+ is about as dark as they come. Based on the million-selling Erik Axl ...

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The Crow Girl is a new crime drama from Paramount+ dealing with murder, corruption and exploitation (Photo: Joss Barratt/Buccaneer/Paramount+) Scandi-noir thriller ...

Paramount+’s new series would have felt cutting-edge 10 years ago, but today its maiming and misery leaves a bad taste in the mouth From its very opening scenes, in which someone gouges ...

"Tread carefully," DCI Jeanette Kilburn (Eve Myles) is warned in the trailer for Paramount+'s new crime thriller The Crow Girl, but minutes into watching you'll realise she can't. That's just not ...

Just when the TV market seems like it’s approaching a Scandi noir saturation point, along comes a drama that makes you fall for the genre all over again – even if it has relocated the original ...

As the victims rise, and it becomes evident that the young men have been beaten and anaesthetised prior to their deaths, Kilburn and her partner DI Lou Stanley (Dougray Scott) face a race against ...