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The 90-year-old Heinz Meyer is found shot in Ronehamn. Who would want to murder a 90-year-old? And why? Heinz Meyer was one of the German soldiers who came to Gotland after World War II, wounded in battles near the Baltics. At the same time, 500 concentration camp prisoners arrived on the...

An aging school photographer is brutally assaulted in his home on northern Gotland. Someone has tried to set fire to his archive. He is found dead four days later. Tomas Hartman's mother is beaten and left in the woods to die. She vaguely remembers that someone was filming her. When Maria Wern...

The annual Medieval Festival is going on in Visby. A secret theater company has taken the St. Clement Church Ruins as their private stage at night. In its center, there is a double tomb from the 12th century where a young woman and an elderly man were buried. They were brutally murdered...

In The Eternal Flame of Alchemy Detective Inspector Maria Wern struggles with a murderer who turns out to follow the principles of alchemy. The hunt of the fanatic perpetrator goes from an old artist community on Gotland to Kosta Art Hotel on the mainland. The aged glass artist Justus Hartman...

Determined Frida Norrby folds her wool skirt and gathers the remains of the child in the fabric. She strikes the head. 'You little one ... what did they do to you? Quiet! Is there anyone there?' She stops with the shovel in her hand and listens. 'Helge, is that you?' No, the steps she just heard...

Strange things happen at Katthamra manor. Admiral Hägg is on watch duty at four in the morning regardless of whether he's alive or dead. In the forest with the twisted trees it's easy to get lost because clocks stop running and compasses no longer work. This could be due to the gnome Bysen or...

The old wooden door to the prison tower Kajsarn in Visby is slightly open. The boy takes the girls hand in the dark when the moist, cold air hits them as a breath from death and the door closes behind them. No one would be able to hear their call for help. They stumble not to fall down in the...

'With a few simple strokes on the keyboard, he could see the little people in their everyday lives over satellite. These superstitious and hardly intelligent creatures still believed in pure luck. It gave him a feeling of power when he could observe them. When weather was good he could even see...

Bisher konnte Kommissar Bark noch jeden kniffligen Cold-Case-Fall lösen, doch diesmal ist es ein Rennen gegen die Zeit, ein tödliches! 1945: Zwei junge Männer steigen in eine Grube in Bergslagen, in der sie Silber vermuten – nur einer von ihnen wird je wieder das Tageslicht erblicken. Wieso musste Vilho sterben? Hat Tom seinen Freund erschlagen? 2021: Als Kristoffer Bark auf dem Weg zu einem Tatort bei den alten Silbergruben ist, erreicht ihn ein Notruf: Ein Mann ist in die Kita seiner Urenkel eingedrungen und bedroht Kinder und Erziehende mit einem Gewehr!

When a bird flu pandemic reaches the picturesque yet uncanny island Gotland, panic spreads among the inhabitants who are frantic for an elusive cure. As the community becomes more desperate, the hunt for scapegoats begins. Extremist and anti-immigrant groups gain ground while nurse Sandra Hägg...

When a woman is found murdered at a rest area in Kronviken, Detective Inspector Maria Wern becomes involved in the investigation. The woman's body is severely burned, her clothes are in shreds and the blue synthetic cap has melted over her face. Who is she? And is there a connection with the...

All The Tranquil Dead is the second book in the hit series about Detective Inspector Maria Wern. A man has been reported missing. Rosmarie Haag, his wife, seeks out Detective Inspector Maria Wern. What initially appears to be a routine matter develops with frightening speed into one of the...

Vor Jahren wurde die Leiche einer Frau in einem von Nägeln durchbohrten Fass gefunden. Und nun hat der Mörder ein neues Ziel... Der zweite Fall für Kommissar Kristoffer Bark! Sechs Monate nach der dramatischen Suche nach seiner Tochter ist bei Kristoffer Bark eines unverändert: Er blättert immer noch in den staubigen Akten ungelöster Cold Cases. Gerade befasst er sich mit dem Fall Emelie Kartmann, die vor Jahren grausam ermordet wurde. Das Opfer hatte zuvor angegeben, gestalkt zu werden.

May Death Sleep is the third book in the hit series about Detective Inspector Maria Wern. A murder, and a suicide leads DI Maria Wern into the world of renowned IVF-clinic Cheiron and its owner Per Göthe - a man with an impeccable history. How is he involved in the grisly murder? As Maria...

It's reassuring when teenagers keep themselves busy at home on their computers. At least then you know where they are. Don't you? A 14-year old girl disappears on her way home from a film night at school. Her lifeless body is found in the forest the next day. Detective Inspector Maria Wern is...

Wilhelm Jacobsson disappears without a trace on the Gotland boat. He is a small farmer who is fiercely independent, stubborn and constantly arguing with his neighbors. A few days later, an elderly lady is out walking her son's Rottweiler. The dog escapes, starts digging in a cairn and digs up a...

Ein tiefer See, eine verschwundene Tochter und ein hartnäckiger Ermittler, der niemals aufgibt: der erste Fall für Kristoffer Bark! Jedes Jahr am Karfreitag schreitet der Polizeiermittler Kristoffer Bark am Ufer des Hjälmarensees entlang. Er sucht nach seiner Tochter - vergeblich. Denn vor fünf Jahren verschwand Vera am Abend ihrer Junggesellinnenfeier spurlos, nachdem sie auf den See hinausgerudert war. Ihre Leiche wurde nie gefunden.

In einer Höhle im schwedischen Naturschutzgebiet Skärmarboda wird das Skelett eines neunjährigen Mädchens gefunden. Kriminalinspektor Kristoffer Bark und sein Team von der Polizei Örebro verfolgen die Spur bis zu einer Familie, die vor 50 Jahren Kinder in Pflege genommen hat. Nach einem bis heute ungeklärten Brand galt das Mädchen als verschollen. Der Hinweis auf die Tote kam von Magdalena Fernåker, einem selbsternannten Medium, die jedoch spurlos verschwindet, bevor Bark sie befragen kann.

Januar 1967: Ein lebloser Frauenkörper treibt im eiskalten Fluss Svartån, ganz in der Nähe des Schlosses von Örebro. Der Name der Toten ist Mary Billbro, sie lebte in der Nervenheilanstalt von Västra Mark. Die Todesursache bleibt unbekannt. Mehr als 50 Jahre später ist Marys Enkelin Eva auf den Spuren ihrer Familiengeschichte. Sie möchte unbedingt herausfinden, was ihrer Großmutter damals zugestoßen ist. Doch dann bekommt sie selbst Morddrohungen. Für Kristoffer Bark, Schwedens Experten für Cold Cases, ist klar: Das ist ein Fall für ihn!

The Speechless God is Anna Jansson's debut novel and the first in the hit Nordic crime series about Detective Constable Maria Wern. "The man was hanging stiffly by a slip noose, his shirt ripped to shreds, with a thick stick piercing his belly." Police constable Maria Wern and her colleagues...