Location manager Ulla Malmos knows her way around Aarhus. From the post-industrial landscape down by the harbour to the courthouse on the hill: this is her beat (fig.1). So familiar is she with Denmark’s second largest city that Ulla set a challenging pace for those of us scampering in her wake, as she described in absorbing detail the business of setting the scene for the crime series, Dicte ( Dicte-Crime Reporter , 2013-16).