Icelandic production company Glassriver and Network Movie, a subsidiary of ZDF Studios, have entered into a co-production agreement to adapt Lilja Sigurðardóttir’s An Áróra Investigation book series for television.
Network Movie has acquired the adaptation rights to all five novels in the series.
The crime drama follows a tough fraud investigator with Icelandic roots who returns to Iceland to search for her missing sister. What begins as a personal family quest soon spirals into a dangerous investigation spanning both London and Iceland.
The An Áróra Investigation novels have sold approximately 800,000 copies worldwide and have been published in English-, Arabic-, French-, German-, Swedish-, Finnish-, and Estonian-speaking markets.
Glassriver is also developing Sigurðardóttir’s Reykjavik Noir trilogy as a television series. In addition to her work as a novelist, Sigurðardóttir previously served as a writer on Netflix’s supernatural drama Katla.
Separately, Australian broadcaster SBS has acquired the rights to Cold Haven, the Icelandic-Portuguese crime thriller co-produced by Glassriver and Portugal’s SPI. The series follows a Portuguese woman who relocates to Iceland with her teenage daughter in search of a better life, only for her death to spark a murder investigation that forces an Icelandic detective to confront unexpected challenges.
Source: C21 Media
