Bäckström is based on Leif GW Persson’s character Evert Bäckström.
The series revolves around homicide detective Evert Bäckström (Kjell Bergqvist), who boasts that he has solved 99% of all cases he investigated.
But when a skull with bullet holes is found on an uninhabited island in the archipelago, Bäckström is confronted with a mystery more difficult than he could have imagined.
Bergqvist is joined by Agnes Lindström Bolmgren, Helen Sjöholm, Linus Wahlgren, and Elvis Stegmar.
In Swedish with English subtitles. Backstrom is an SBS On Demand exclusive.