Carol Reed Mysteries is a detective adventure video game series developed by MDNA Games. The series consists of 18 games to date, with the latest being released in January 2023. Plot The games follow the adventures of female detective Carol Reed. Gameplay Carol Reed is a graphical adventure game series that has the player navigating photographs of backgrounds and people. They interact with characters and manipulate items to progress through the stories. Games Development Conception The games are written by Mikael Nyqvist, who founded MDNA Games. The company is named after the singer Madonna; Nyqvist had previously run the largest Madonna-themed fan site and has an affinity for her. The name of the female protagonist, Carol Reed, was chosen by Mikael's wife Eleen, despite reservations from him that the name was already associated with a male English director. Aspects of the production for each game would include: scripting, planning, location scouting, photographing, and sound recording, while Photoshop photo retouching (about 40% of the process) and game programming would become the most time consuming, nonetheless, over the years Mikael has received some outside help to do tasks such as building the game's interface which is used as a template for each title. The couple made the first three games together, and since then Eleen has taken on more of a consulting role due to other commitments. Mikael acknowledges that his series and Her Interactive's Nancy Drew video game series share common themes, and are the two longest adventure game series, but explained that he was not inspired by the series when creating the Carol Reed Mysteries. Casting and characters The couple decided to set the games in Sweden, but to have a main character from England; this meant that the Swedish characters would be forced to speak to Carol Reed in English with a Swedish accent, which allowed them to hire friends and acquaintances for a low cost. Mikael does not like talking about how he visualises Carol's appearance, and expressed dismay at the German versions of the first six games having photos of "Carol" on the cover while the Russian versions had drawings of her. Sarah Louise Williams, who voices Carol Reed and plays Stina, is the sister of Eleen. According to Mikael, "she was a natural choice for Carol's voice acting, as her English is excellent", having lived in England for ten years. Bjørn Larsen, who plays Jonas, used