Scandinavian Literature

Dispatched to fight the Taliban as part of the NATO forces, the soldiers of the Third Platoon arrive in a desert hell intent on testing their courage and endurance. Among them are the charismatic platoon leader Schrøder, a former games designer fascinated by the imaginative potential of war; Colonel Steffensen, whose negotiating tactics will have deadly consequences; Sidekick, the LifeLogger whose online “war memorial” will blur into horror; and the hardened but vulnerable Hannah, who must bury her womanhood - or sacrifice her soul.

In the Swedish ski resort of Åre, crime is rare. Certainly nothing so brutal as the murder of Johan Andersson, a former Olympic skier found bound and beaten to death in the forest. According to his distraught wife, he didn’t have any enemies in the world. To Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog, the crime proves otherwise. But what could have provoked such rage? And in whom?

On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies. As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects.

The body of a homeless woman is found in the river, viciously beaten and with all her teeth removed. A young immigrant, the prime suspect in a recent spate of robberies in Umeå, was seen running in the vicinity around the time the body was dumped. Trouble is, he hasn’t been seen since. When he does appear, in the town square, he’s wearing an explosive vest and holding a detonator.

Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent in the Stockholm archipelago, and his own mysterious family past. Now behind a desk at Vektor, a think tank conducting research on Russia, he’s met his match - and fallen in love - with fierce fellow operative Pashie Kovalenko. Like all of Vektor, she’s set her sights on the tenuous future of her country.

Die dunkelsten Geheimnisse einer Familie: Der skandinavische Autor Stieg Larsson hat mit der Millennium-Trilogie eine der spannendsten Krimi-Reihen überhaupt geschaffen. Das Hörbuch "Verblendung (Millennium-Trilogie 1)" wird von Dietmar Wunder, dem deutschen Synchronsprecher von Daniel Craig, gelesen.

Als Elsa im Sommer 1949 in Island ankommt, ist sie eine von vielen. Dennoch entsteht zwischen Grassodenhaus, leuchtenden Wiesen und endlosem Meer ein Zusammenleben, das sich Elsa irgendwann nicht mehr vom Leibe halten kann. Allein ihre Anwesenheit verändert die Dynamik auf dem Hof – besonders die der Bauernsöhne. Es gibt Erwartungen, ausgesprochene und unausgesprochene.

It is 935 A.D., and the North is in turmoil. King Harald Fairhair has died, leaving the High Seat of the realm to his murderous son, Erik Bloodaxe. To solidify his claim, Erik ruthlessly disposes of all claimants to his throne, save one: his youngest brother Hakon. Erik's surviving enemies send a ship to Wessex, where the Christian King Athelstan is raising Hakon. Unable to avoid his fate, he returns to the Viking North to face his brother and claim his birthright, only to discover that victory will demand sacrifices beyond his wildest nightmares.

In einer Nacht, als ein heftiger Sturm über der malerischen schwedischen Westküste wütet, verschwindet die Lehrerin Agnes spurlos. Die Einwohner organisieren Suchtrupps, die Polizei ist unter der Leitung von Kommissarin Maria Martinsson vor Ort. Und auch ein neuer Bewohner taucht in dem verschlafenen Hovenäset auf: Der Stockholmer August Strindberg hat das lokale Bestattungsunternehmen gekauft – samt Leichenwagen – und möchte dort einen Secondhandladen eröffnen.

Dans le vaste pays blanc, l'esprit de Nanook se réveille. Le grand ours polaire, seigneur des lieux, protégera les siens jusqu'au bout. Adopté à l'âge de trois ans, Qaanaaq Adriensen n'a jamais remis les pieds sur sa terre natale, le Groenland. C'est à contrecœur que ce redoutable enquêteur de Copenhague accepte d'aller aider la police locale, démunie devant ce qui s'annonce comme la plus grande affaire criminelle du pays : quatre ouvriers de plateformes pétrolières ont été retrouvés, le corps déchiqueté. Les blessures semblent caractéristiques d'une attaque d'ours polaire.

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.

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?

In the mystical Snæfellsnes region on Iceland's west coast - at a New Age health resort in a renovated farmhouse - the body of a young woman is discovered, savagely beaten, with pins inserted into her feet. Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, lawyer and single mother of two, has been retained to represent the resort's owner and prime suspect. But a fresh corpse is not the only abomination Thóra encounters here - for local legend says this place is haunted.

A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated fans around the world. Originally published by the tiny press Cheeky Frawg - the passion project of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - Jagannath has been celebrated by listeners and critics alike, with rave reviews from major outlets and support from lauded peers like China Mieville and even Ursula K. Le Guin herself.

Lisbeth Salander und Mikael Blomkvist gegen den Rest der Welt: Im Frauengefängnis Flodberga herrscht ein strenges Regiment. Alle hören auf das Kommando von Benito Andersson, der unangefochtenen Anführerin der Insassinnen. Lisbeth Salander, die eine kurze Strafe absitzt, versucht tunlichst, den Kontakt zu vermeiden, doch als ihre Zellennachbarin gemobbt wird, geht sie dazwischen und gerät ins Visier von Benitos Gang.

It seemed like an open-and-shut case. But they couldn’t have been more wrong. When a 25-year-old woman is found dead in Stockholm, detective Vanessa Frank knows that there is more to the case than meets the eye. And when Vanessa finds herself on the trail of a dangerous internet community who call themselves "incels", her world starts to unravel. These ‘involuntarily celibate’ men have fostered hatred towards the women who turn them down, and now women are turning up dead.

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short. Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest.

Ida is a self-confessed serial killer of predatory men. She feels no remorse for her victims but has decided she needs psychiatric help...if only to lay the groundwork for an insanity plea if she gets caught. Clarissa is a celebrity psychotherapist, the best in her field, a familiar face on television and in glossy magazines. For her, every patient is special—someone only she can save. When Ida walks into Clarissa's consulting room one day, the therapist doesn't know that they share a dark secret, buried in both their pasts.

När en människa hittas brutalt mördad inne på Akademibokhandeln i Uppsala uppstår tumult i staden. Kriminalinspektörerna Kenneth Klintman och Lisa Norén vid Uppsalas krimjour får återigen ta sig an ett dunkelt fall. De förstår snart att brottets förövare är ovanligt ung - nämligen en mula. Mulan är en fristående fortsättning på Ulf Brobergs böcker Den tredje mannen och Den döende radiomannen. Ulf Broberg, född 1954, har arbetat som radiojournalist för Radio Uppland och Sveriges Radio sedan början av 90-talet.

The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten Jonsson. It’s a nightmare for the locals. The venture capitalist has flouted local traditions, property lines, and the natural beauty of the coastline. He’s also too wealthy and arrogant to heed the anonymous warnings to leave. The threats escalate when his guest lodge is burned to the ground and an unidentifiable corpse is found in the charred ruins.