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Close to the water. He goes there often, each time with a new woman by his side. Are they there willingly? Maria Wern is busy with a disappearance. Cecilia, who suffers from a heart condition, has been missing for several days without her medication-finding her is a race against time...

Twenty-year-old Agnes has been subjected to abuse for a long time. She confides in a midwife who has started a secret Facebook group called Ullsaxen. Agnes tells her story, and at last she finds understanding. Meanwhile, suspected but acquitted rapists and sex offenders begin falling victim to...

Maria Wern has been struck by tragedy. Her husband, Björn, is paralyzed from the neck down, and she now cares for him at home. When a body is found in the waters below Högklint, she is forced to hand over more responsibility to the personal assistants. Though she trusts them, something about...

In Tingstäde, a Viking-era assembly site on Gotland, a group of people has gathered to await the end of the world. Since the mid-1700s, the knowledge of the final days has been passed down in the Runö family. An astronomical clock from the time of Christoffer Polhem and a handwritten letter...

he late-summer warmth lingers on Gotland. Maria Wern is at a party with her new neighbors in Åminne when an explosive fire breaks out in a nearby house. The incident is linked to a series of burglaries in the summer cottage area. The following morning, Tomas Hartman's daughter, Sofi, vanishes...

Detective Inspector Jesper Ek has fallen head over heels in love. But his new love, Julia, is a mystery. What is it she doesn't want to tell? When her past catches up with her, the trap closes around Ek, leaving him in a terrible predicament where he can't even turn to his colleagues for help...

Written by a group of friends, Seven Holy Women is a one-of-a-kind journey into the lives of seven women saints. Each section of the book includes a story from one saint’s life told vividly and imaginatively in the second person, additional information about the saint to give her context, a reflection on ways the writer, listener, and saint intersect on their journeys, personal surveys for the listener and a friend to complete, and a journal prompt that encourages the listener to explore and document her encounter with themes from the saint’s life.

Nach dem Brand eines Kinos wird im Lüftungsschacht die Leiche eines 18-Jährigen gefunden. Der junge Mann verschwand vor 40 Jahren, in derselben Nacht, als seine Klassenkameradin ermordet wurde. Kristoffer Bark beginnt zu ermitteln, bis ein anderer Fall zur Priorität wird: Auf einem Universitätsfest wurden mehrere Ehrengäste tödlich vergiftet. Bald lassen neue Informationen einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Cold Case von 1985 und dem Anschlag erkennen, und Bark begreift, dass ihre Vergangenheit die Opfer auf verhängnisvolle Weise eingeholt hat.

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...

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!

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.

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.

Drama Queens I ett liv nära dig får vi ta del av fem historier direkt ur livet, starkt berättat av fem av Sveriges främsta författare. Det handlar om kärlek. Hur svårt kan det vara? Varför kan man inte bara älska den man har kär? Vad händer om man inte träffar den rätta och sökandet övergå till ren desperation. Ingen vill vara udda och den som sticker ut men fråga är bara hur långt man är beredd att gå för att passa in och för att ge och få kärlek.

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...

Two days before Christmas 88-year-old Gertrud disappears without a trace from her apartment in Visby. The town is covered in snow and the temperature is decreasing. Despite great search efforts, she is nowhere to be found. When Maria Wern investigates the case, she learns that Gertrud's husband...

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...

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...

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...