One morning in October 1986, the Copenhagen police receive a phone call from a distressed taxi driver. While standing in traffic near "Islands Brygge", he spotted something in the water: the the torso of a woman. In the months that followed, more body parts appeared in the water in Copenhagen Harbour. But detectives had no idea who the victim was. No one seemed to have known her. It would take over a year to find out who the victim was.

Murder in the North explores some of the most shocking murder cases in Scandinavia. Like the case of the young woman who set off from Tokyo on a back-packing journey across Europe in 1987, but whose adventure of a lifetime would end in tragedy in Copenhagen's cold waters. Or, the twisted tale of obsession that led two Swedish teenagers to organise an unspeakable murder over text message. Or the woman who mysteriously disappears one week before her wedding. Our account of these cases is based...