How do these sound to you –
– A murder at the prestigious Stockholm, Sweden event known as the Nobel Prize Banquet?
Does that intrigue you? Have a look at the trailer:
– A super popular TV Talk show host is found murdered in a TV Production truck while on location?
– A girl is raped and murdered, and that’s only on the surface. Beneath the surface, a high government official is trading arms to the Taliban.
Such are the plot lines of the first three episodes of Annika Bengtzon, Crime Reporter. This six part series was originally broadcast on Swedish TV in 2012. Adapted from the best-selling novels penned by Liza Marklund, the series is available on DVD from Amazon, or you can stream it via Netflix.
The lead character is of course Annika Bengtzon, a crime reporter for a Stockholm paper called Kvãllspressen. She’s a thirty something with two kids and a hubby.
Yes she has a female reporter as a colleague,
a gruff city editor who has a big beer gut, wears suspenders and no tie, and a neat as a pin Editor-in-Chief. There’s a police detective who happens by in every case. Sometimes he’s an opponent and sometimes he’s an ally. It varies from week to week.
The police detective
The husband is kind of stereotypical shell of a character meaning disregarding gender, we get the type of spouse we’ve all seen before – the type that isn’t happy the other spouse is out until all hours – even all night – just to get the story.
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