In September 2021, a six-episode Danish miniseries about a murderer who left dolls at crime scenes, ‘The Hartung Affair’, became one of the most watched titles on Netflix in 82 countries, with a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. Five years later, its creators they bring her back in ‘The Holst case’with a different killer and a new investigation system.
Søren Sveistrup, author of the novel that inspired the first series, took six years to write the second, and hence the delay in arriving this new season. Sveistrup is the creator of ‘The Killing’, the Danish series that won a BAFTA between 2007 and 2012 and was readapted in the United States. And on this occasion he has decided to bring back the protagonists of the first season.
That is, detective Naia Thulin and Europol investigator Mark Hess return, meeting when a 41-year-old woman disappears. When the police piece together your digital trail, They discover that she had been systematically harassed for months. The perpetrator sent her photos, videos and an audio file containing a seemingly innocent children’s countdown song. When she is found murdered, detectives establish that the case is connected to the unsolved homicide of a 17-year-old student two years earlier.
This time we will see how a more traditional type of investigation (investigations based on objects abandoned at the scene of the crime) is transformed into a completely contemporary trace: that of the victim’s fingerprint. The detectives will review his emails, his telephone records, the files sent by the stalker, investigating a life that they will have to reconstruct from intangible data.
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