Swedish Mysteries

Kriminalkommissarie Nikki Galena har förlorat allt–en ung flicka dör i hennes armar och hennes egen dotter kommer troligen aldrig att lämna sjukhuset. Hennes hämndlystnad har gjort henne hårdare mot de kriminella, men nu har hon fått en sista varning: samarbeta med kriminalinspektör Joseph Easter, eller förlora jobbet. Joseph Easter är en plikttrogen nykomling i teamet, känd som "Helige Joe", men hans soldaterfarenheter från armén ger honom en annan sida. Han har också förlorat kontakten med sin dotter, som anklagar honom för familjens fall.

När kriminalkommissarie Nikki Galena kallas till St Saviour’s-tornet, väntar ett misstänkt självmord. Men kroppen i den rödbruna leran får henne att stelna – det är hennes granne, Martin Durham. Mannen hon just pratat med. Mannen som skulle komma över på kaffe till helgen. Frågan är: hoppade han – eller blev han knuffad?

A British journalist is invited to Malmö to interview an old university friend who is now one of Sweden's leading film directors. When he discovers the director's glamorous film-star wife dead in her apartment, the Skåne County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case.

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence. A “brooding and brilliant” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) murder mystery set in a rural Swedish town, where one community’s secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . “All the...

Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed to follow her....

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and...no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only 18, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her late 80s, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. It's a solitary existence, and she likes it that way.

It’s 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets…or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a cryptic message. Who is he? And who is this “Dark Angel” he speaks of? When a detective shows up, Mika senses something even more sinister is going on.

Julia Malmros is thriving. A former police officer making her way in the world of crime fiction, she’s turning popularity into fame by writing the next book in a world-renowned suspense series. To help her research, Julia connects with Kim Ribbing. More hacker than man, Kim bears a dark past that’s the very antithesis of the promising future she has planned for herself. They share an undeniable spark—yet it’s likely to implode. That’s the least of Julia’s worries. Hounded by publicity, Julia retreats to her cottage in the Stockholm archipelago.

This atmospheric and sinister mystery will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a brilliant female detective investigating the darkest side of humanity. Detective Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at...

Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend, Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman.

Den framgångsrike chefsåklagaren Sigurd Halvorsruds hustru hittas död framför den öppna spisen i familjens vardagsrum. Det står klart att hon är mördad—huvudet har skiljts från kroppen. Halvorsrud larmar polisen men blir själv misstänkt för mordet. När polisen efter långa förhör tvingas släppa honom inträffar ytterligare ett mord. En journalist vid en av Oslos största tidningar hittas död i en enkel hyresfastighet—också han halshuggen.

Art expert Emma Lindhal is anxious when she's asked to appraise the antiques in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was murdered nine years earlier, her killer never found. As she goes about her painstaking work and one shocking discovery yields clues that lead to another, Emma becomes determined to uncover the secrets of the house and its occupants. When the lifeless body of another young woman is found in the icy waters surrounding the island, Detective Karl Rosén arrives to investigate.

När den ryska ubåten Kursk gick under i Barents hav på grund av ett amerikanskt misstag stod det klart för världens alla spionorganisationer att Ryssland hade utvecklat en överlägsen ubåtsteknologi. Palestinierna som alltid varit i tekniskt underläge insåg att tillgången till en rysk superubåt för första gången skulle ge dem ett övertag. Uppdraget att genomföra den största terroristattacken i världshistorien går till den kvinnliga brigadgeneralen Mouna al Husseini. Hon inser direkt att problemen i motsättningen mellan rasistiska ryska officerare och högt utbildade palestinier är oöverstigliga.

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A farmhouse mysteriously goes up in flames with someone trapped inside and a community is never the same in the aftermath—both a thrilling whodunit and a deeply touching coming-of-age story by one of...

One of the New York Times’s Best Crime Novels of the Year A Good Morning America Buzz Pick #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated—a “thrilling and profoundly poignant”...

Anita Sundström has only been with Chief Inspector Erik Moberg's Criminal Investigation Squad for a year when they have to tackle the aftermath of an armed robbery at a cash handling facility in Malmö. The raid has left one security guard dead and there is no sign of the stolen millions. The raid has left one security guard dead and there is no sign of the stolen millions. Though the team make early progress, they soon become frustrated as the investigation stalls. Then a murder with a possible connection to the audacious heist only raises more questions than answers.

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...

Man skulle knappast kunna påstå att de är av samma skrot och korn, men den spänningssökande äventyraren Beryl Helliwell från Amerika och den tysta och reserverade Edwina Davenport från England är väldigt bra på en sak: att lösa mord tillsammans.

De kunde knappast vara mer olika – den djärva amerikanska äventyraren Beryl Helliwell och den stillsamma, korrekta engelskan Edwina Davenport. Men trots sina olikheter delar de en oväntad talang: att lösa mord.

Aldrig tidigare har Carl Hamilton känt sig så pressad. Hämnare från den sicilianska maffian slår till mot hans närmaste anhöriga; hans gode vän och kollega Jurij Tjivartsjev hotas av dödsstraff vid en militärtribunal i Moskva, och i Sverige seriemördas invandrare med kuslig precision. Carl berörs alltmer personligt och tvingas i denna grandiosa final sätta sin tillvaro på spel mer slutgiltigt än någonsin tidigare.