Scandinavian Crime Fiction

Eine Tote am Strand und ein mörderisches Geheimnis aus der Vergangenheit ... Im beschaulichen Dörfchen Kollund an der deutsch-dänischen Grenze wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Erschossen am Strand. Die Tote wird als Liva Jørgensen identifiziert, die zwölf Jahre zuvor spurlos verschwand. Was ist damals wirklich geschehen? Vibeke Boisen, Leiterin der Flensburger Mordkommission, und ihr Kollege Rasmus Nyborg, von der dänischen Polizei, rollen den alten Fall wieder auf und stechen damit in ein Wespennest. Ihre Ermittlungen führen sie in höchste politische Kreise.

Plus au nord que le nord, il y a : le Groenland. Une terre glacée, balayée par les vents, inaccessible sur la majeure partie de son territoire. Et qui recèle pourtant les histoire les plus sombres. C'est au travers du destin d'une femme que tout se joue. Elle porte en elle les déchirures et la soif de vengeance d'un pays. Elle est l'Inuite. Face à elle, deux flics, l'un groenlandais, l'autre danois, mènent chacun leur enquête : les meurtres récents d'un grand-père et de sa petite-fille sur une île isolée; et un scandale d'État qui remonte aux années 1950.

THAILAND: Auf dem Mekong gleitet ein Kanu. Die Augen des Fahrers tränen. Er hat die Zivilisation hinter sich gelassen, um ins Goldene Dreieck zu gelangen. Es ist eine Reise zu sich selbst und ein Versuch, die schreckliche Tat aufzuarbeiten, die ihn verfolgt. Der Mann in dem Kanu ist Ex-Kriminalkommissar Tom Stilton. STOCKHOLM: Olivia Rönning ist mit einem Mord befasst, der Schweden in Atem hält. Eine ganze Familie wurde kurz vor der Fahrt in die Winterferien in ihrem Auto brutal ermordet. Der schwedische Geheimdienst lieferte schnell einen Verdächtigen, der auch verurteilt wird.

When the prime suspect to a shocking murder vanishes, detectives race to track him down before a vengeful scorned ex finds him first in this “exceptional” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Nordic noir thriller from the acclaimed Swedish author of After She’s Gone. “Impressive . . . a...

The Forgotten Girls The body of an unidentified woman has been discovered in a remote forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. Louise Rick, the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, waits four long...

When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from.

Det brinner i den lilla småländska byn Bösebo. Någon har tänt eld på en ensligt belägen stuga och i resterna efter branden hittas kvarlevorna av en människa. Kriminalkommissarie Louise Hård får ansvar för utredningen och snart brinner det igen i de småländska skogsbygderna. En pyroman sprider skräck i byar och samhällen. Samtidigt försöker Louise Hårds pensionerade kollega Sven-Olof Åkerman utreda ett gammalt fall som förföljt honom genom livet. Efter en avslutningsfest i en bygdegård i början av 60-talet försvinner en ung tjej som han varit förälskad i.

When a new lead breaks in the cold case that has long haunted Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, the truth she's been seeking about her best friend's disappearance may finally be revealed - if it doesn't kill her first.

An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.

A psychological profiler who’s lost her memory and a teenage boy with a fiercely guarded secret become unwitting, unlikely partners in this race to stop a killer—a “stellar crime novel [and] scorching thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from the acclaimed author of The Ice...

Summer 1983: four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again. Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to terms with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend's disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time?

A shadowy figure stalks the streets of Copenhagen, preying on unsuspecting single women. Each victim becomes another macabre addition to the murderer's twisted collection, sending shockwaves of terror through the Danish capital. Enter Cecilie Mars, the maverick detective newly thrust into the spotlight as head of the city's homicide division. Tasked with bringing this fiend to justice, she faces not only the relentless pressure of a fearful public but also insidious opposition from inside the ranks of the police force.

De la Norvège à la Russie, un thriller intense aux confins sauvages de l'arctique. Archipel du Svalbard, Longyearbyen, la ville la plus au nord du monde. On découvre le corps d'une femme vraisemblablement déchiquetée par un ours. Norvège continentale, les îles Lofoten. Le cadavre d'une ex-journaliste est retrouvé sur une plage isolée. A priori rien ne lie ces victimes si ce n'est qu'elles s'intéressaient de près aux mammifères marins. L'une était doctorante en biologie arctique, l'autre, à la tête d'une agence d'excursion en mer.

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether innocent.

Local girls' soccer coach Sven-Gunnar Erlandsson is practically a saint in the community, known for his good works and volunteering. So when his body is found in Stockholm's beautiful Herräng forest, shot at close range in the back of the neck while walking home from a late-night poker game, the police struggle to find a motive. Nothing has been taken from his pockets except his cell phone, and the only other clues left behind are a cryptic handwritten note and a handful of playing cards.

Ein grausiger Leichenfund schreckt das beschauliche Jütland im Süden Dänemarks auf. In die Brust des Toten, der aus dem Leichenschauhaus entwendet wurde, ist "Grandberg" eingeritzt, der Name der mächtigsten Familie im Dorf – und des örtlichen Polizeichefs. Und neben der Leiche steckt eine Schaufel im Boden, die ein mörderisches Geheimnis enthüllt: das Massengrab eines Serienkillers, der seine jungen Opfer mit kochender Milch verbrühte.

On the eve of their thirtieth birthday, twins Jasmine and Nicolas Moretti celebrate late into the night. But when Nicolas wakes several hazy hours later, Jasmine is dead—and he is covered in her blood. Panicking, he takes the murder weapon and runs into the cold Stockholm night. For the police, it’s an open-and-shut case. Nicolas is guilty. And given that he remembers so little of what happened that night, even he isn’t convinced of his innocence.

Former cop Emma Tapper and her lawyer boss Angela Köhler are defending shipping boss Anita Spendel, charged with murdering her billionaire husband. Anita insists Martin Spendel is still alive, but his car is soaked in his blood. Emma must clear Anita’s name by finding the missing man—dead or alive… Meanwhile, on a luxury yacht off the coast of Ibiza, Bianca Aguilera is relaxing in the sun when a drone delivers an unexpected parcel. The contents: chilling evidence that someone close to her is dead. Horror quickly turns to realisation.

An in-depth and personal exploration of Scandinavian crime fiction as a way into Scandinavian culture at large.

Jost Härjfeldt, en ärrad operatör och officer, håller på att återhämta sig från en svår skottskada och skilsmässa. När han är i begrepp att återgå till tjänst hittas ett sargat lik. Jost blixtinkallas och hans chef, överste Örnvreten, på den militära underrättelseenheten Sektionen, misstänker att det kan finnas en koppling till ett, även inom försvaret, okänt specialförband. Den långa vägen tillbaka och det nya fallet sätter igång en inre process i honom. Hur lever han sitt liv?