EXCLUSIVE: Icelandic streamer Síminn has boarded Reykjavik Noir, a series adaptation of Lilja Sigurdardottir‘s crime novel trilogy.
Glassriver, the Icelandic producer behind Cold Haven and As Long As We Live, is producing after acquiring the rights to the novels in a deal brokered the Reykjavik Literary Agency.
The books, set in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, comprise ‘Snare’, ‘Trap’ and ‘Cage’. They have been translated into 17 languages, including English, German and French, and ‘Snare’ was awarded Thriller of the Year in 2017 by the New York Journal of Books. It was also named in The Times and the Sunday Times Crime Club’s best books of the past five years in 2020, and was longlisted for the CWA International Dagger award in 2018.
In ‘Snare’, a young, divorced mother, Sonja, who is trying to win sole custody of her son resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and gets caught
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