Nordic Noir

Cold landscapes, colder secrets

Bleak, atmospheric crime stories set in Scandinavian landscapes, where flawed detectives uncover dark secrets beneath orderly societies.

Styles: Novel · Literary · Pulp · Noir, or Random
Aisle: Mystery

Begin with

Polar Night
During the month without sunrise, a body is found frozen upright in the harbor ice, facing the police station. You are the only detective in a town of four hundred.
Your role: A small-town Arctic detective
The Summer House
A family's summer house is sold for the first time in eighty years. The new owners find a sealed room with the family's missing daughter's things, untouched since 1987.
Your role: A cold-case investigator
Ferry Crossing
Someone disappears on every winter crossing of the night ferry. You are the ship's new security officer.
Your role: A ferry security officer

Start a premise as written, or make it yours with your own hero, style, tropes and intensity. Every scene after the first is written around your choices.

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