Top 10 Best Scandinavian Thrillers (Nordic Noir)

When a body sawn in half is found exactly on the border line of the Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden, Swede Saga Norén and Dane Martin Rohde have to work together.

Sofie Gråbøl became a style icon with her wool sweater as inspector Sarah Lund in this Danish series in which each season thoroughly investigates a single murder case.

The six-part TV version of Stieg Larsson's books, with Noomi Rapace as iconic hacker Lisbeth Salander and Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist.

An Icelandic fishing town is completely cut off from the outside world by a heavy snowstorm while a headless body washes up in the harbor.

Sidse Babett Knudsen plays Birgitte Nyborg, who unexpectedly becomes Denmark's first female prime minister and has to balance political ideals with dirty compromises.

In 32 films and episodes, Krister Henriksson gave the definitive melancholic portrayal of inspector Kurt Wallander in Ystad.

Although set in London, this series was written by Hans Rosenfeldt, the mastermind behind The Bridge, with the same psychological chill.

In Copenhagen, a sadistic serial killer leaves a little chestnut figure bearing the fingerprints of a missing girl at every victim.

This Finnish crime series follows detective Sofia Karppi, who investigates the murder of a young woman in Helsinki shortly after losing her husband.

A contemporary take on the early years of Henning Mankell's famous Swedish inspector Kurt Wallander in Malmö.