Sweden Noir

Mai 1980. Le lieutenant Duval et son équipe se voient confier une tâche difficile: trouver qui a empoisonné Florence, l'épouse bien connue de Charles Marquis, un riche entrepreneur qui vise la mairie de Québec. Or, ce n'est qu'à la suite de l'exhumation du corps et des analyses du chimiste-toxicologue - le décès remonte à octobre 1979 - que l'on s'aperçoit que ce n'est pas le cancer ou les traitements de chimiothérapie qui ont achevé - et terriblement fait souffrir! - cette femme que tous considéraient comme une sainte.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER A serial killer is spinning a sinister web and Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer are caught dead center. This pulse-pounding descent into the chilling world of The Spider is another shocking thriller in the Killer Instinct series. Three years ago, Detective...

Midcentury Los Angeles: A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America", a land of sunshine and orange groves, Midwestern values, and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.

"À force de vouloir m'abriter en toi, j'ai perdu de vue que c'était toi, l'orage. Que c'est de toi que j'aurais dû vouloir m'abriter. Mais qui a envie de vivre abrité des orages ?" Frida parle haut et fort, avec son corps fracassé par un accident de bus et ses manières excessives d'inviter la muerte et la vida dans chacun de ses gestes."

Set in the gritty streets and shadowy corners of 18th-century Stockholm, The Wolf and the Watchman is a dark, masterful historical thriller where a chilling murder investigation peels back the twisted layers of a city rife with secrets, corruption, and intrigue. “The Alienist set in...

Southern Sweden: Beautiful countryside, endless forests, coastal walks, dark days - and even darker nights. But beneath the beauty lies a dark heart... Skåne, 1986: On the night of Walpurgis, the eve of May Day, where bonfires are lit to ward off evil spirits and preparations are made to celebrate the renewal of spring, a sixteen-year-old girl is ritualistically murdered in the woods beside a castle. Her stepbrother is convicted of the terrible deed and shortly after, the entire family vanishes without a trace.

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...

On a Friday in Åre, six university students arrive for a week of skiing and partying. By Sunday morning only five are alive. The body of their friend Filippa is found in the brutally cold outdoors showing no signs of assault. It’s as if the barefoot young woman just curled up in a snowdrift to die. It appears to be a tragic misfortune. And Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog, both at turning points in their personal lives, aren’t anxious to get involved. But Hanna can’t ignore her gut instinct. This is no accident. This is another murder in Åre.

From the introduction by James Thompson: Finland, the myths and truths. Internationally, it has a reputation as perhaps the best place in the world to live. A great economy. A low crime rate. Good and nearly cost-free health care. The needy are provided for by the state and live in reasonable comfort. Finns: peaceful and quiet people, living in the perfect example of a social democracy functioning as it should. A tourist, or even a person who has lived here for a length of time, might well view Finland as such.