Scandinavian Crime

Bianca Chopra. Gorgeous. Forbidden. My past obsession. When she propositions me for a sham marriage, I say no with a warning to stay away. Like a dirty vixen, she raises the stake, reawakening the forbidden feelings, and I find myself throwing caution to the wind. She thinks she'll walk away unscathed but doesn't realize she made a deal with a monster with a secret that will wreck her entire world.

'The Quick'. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water, and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. 'The Dead'. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man’s body falls from a high platform. 'The Forgotten'. Many years before, a schoolgirl went missing. The world has forgotten her. But Erlendur has not.

Left to her own devices, Detective Sergeant Charlie West struggles with the responsibility of a full-blown murder investigation when a man is pushed off a cliff. Not ready to have her apron strings severed so soon, West finds Munro who reluctantly agrees to shed light on the Ayrshire detectives' most challenging case yet. Once the police have discovered the identity of the dead man, and established his demise was the result of foul play, the race is on to hunt down the murderer.

An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.

Den chilenske privatdetektiv Marcelo Krankl bliver opsøgt af Sofia Goldbaum, en ung ph.d., der frygter, at nogen prøver at modarbejde hendes forskning hos medicinalgiganten Nord, hvis nye præparat kommer til at tjene milliarder af dollars - kort sagt, en medicinsk blockbuster. Marcelo Krankl sætter alt ind på at hjælpe sin klient, og sporene fører ham til hans hjemkontinent, Sydamerika, hvor fattige mennesker bliver brugt som forsøgskaniner af kyniske videnskabsfolk med forbindelser til et gammelt nazinetværk.

Bornholm, une île danoise de la mer baltique, fin des années 1990. Le cadavre d'une jeune fille est retrouvé dans un arbre, son vélo broyé au bord de la route. Aucune trace du chauffard : affaire classée. Sauf pour un inspecteur de la police locale qui finit dix-sept ans plus tard par demander l'aide de l'inspecteur Carl Mørck. Avant de se tirer une balle dans la tête. À l'initiative de Rose, l'assistante du flegmatique Mørck, l'insolite trio du Département V en charge des cold cases débarque sur l'île de Bornholm.

La nouvelle enquête du trio formé par l'inspecteur Mørck et ses assistants Assad et Rose fait monter la tension d'un cran en nous plongeant dans le sombre passé politique du Danemark. Copenhague. Une brutale agression dans les quartiers chauds de Vesterbro incite Rose à rouvrir un cold case sur la disparition inexpliquée d'une prostituée. Cédant à ses pressions, le Département V exhume une affaire macabre datant des années 50, dont les ravages dévoilent le visage d'une société danoise loin d'être exemplaire.

DI Jamie Johansson is trying to find normality in Kurrajakk when she gets the chance to sit in on the Interpol interview linked to her last case. A pattern of mutilation and beheading on the Finnish border has Jamie's full attention, but Interpol seem more interested in the Russian connection. Begrudgingly, they let her follow up, and as usual, Jamie's nose for trouble doesn't steer her wrong.

When a six-year-old girl is found dead, hanging from a tree, the only clue the Oslo Police have to work with is an airline tag around her neck. It reads, 'I'm travelling alone'. Holger Munch, veteran police investigator, is immediately charged with reassembling his homicide unit. But to complete the team, he must convince his erstwhile partner, Mia Krüger - a brilliant but troubled investigator - to return from the solitary island where she has retreated with plans to take her own life.

The exciting follow-up to The Andalucian Friend, a breakneck thriller that follows Sophie Brinkmann as she faces the consequences of joining Hector Guzman's crime empire From the moment Hector Guzman entered a coma, Sophie Brinkmann has regretted joining his crime family. Hector's right hand...

What do you do when there are no more challenges in your life? For Stavin Ne'Aniston Zel'Andral, the thrill of being a prince had rapidly paled. He was a prince of Evandia, but would never sit on the throne. He was the first person to earn the four hollowed stars of a Senior Warmaster, but was forbidden to participate in a war. He was a scribe who would never teach anyone but his own children. He was a scholar who didn't have time to research anything but trade. All his hopes and dreams, his plans for the future, had fallen aside when King Kalin had adopted him.

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...

For fans of Scandinavian crime, Intrigo is the gripping collection of Håkan Nesser’s best novellas and short stories, three of which have been adapted into major motion pictures. Set in the fictional city of Maardam, each story is linked by themes of secrets coming to light, lies being...

En ung man hittas mördad på en offerplats vid Gräne gruva. När kriminalinspektör Tyra Zeder undersöker fyndplatsen blir hon själv överfallen och lämnad i gruvschaktets gröna vatten. Inom kort inträffar ytterligare två mord. Tyra förälskar sig i Robin, men poliserna i Tranemo fångas i en växande härva av intriger.

Nyårsafton 2003. Det stilla lugn som råder på SOS-centralen i Uppsala, bryts elva minuter över tio på kvällen, när någon ringer om en brinnande bil på E4. Bilbranden visar sig vara mycket mera än en vanlig trafikolycka. Vem är det som har omkommit? Varför kallar statsministern in en beredskapsregering och varför träffar regeringen representanter för Säpo och Rikskriminalen mitt i natten? Finns det kopplingar till internationell terrorism?

Jessica Jackson är polis i Västervik och får ärva ett gammalt nedlagt mejeri på (den fiktiva ön) Mörkö, där hon drömmer om att starta ett mikrobryggeri. Men när en död man flyter i land på ön grusas hennes planer. Efter en fest i bygdegården försvinner en ung kvinna. Allt tyder på att hon blivit utsatt för våld. Jessica var själv med på festen, men har inte någon klar bild över vad som egentligen hände. Allt hon minns är ett bråk mellan några invandrare och den försvunna kvinnan. Eftersom hon känner till platsen dras Jessica snart in i den alltmer komplicerade polisutredningen.

Ett dödsfall i ett statligt ämbetsverk är upptakten till denna deckarroman i unik Stockholmsmiljö. Det förefaller visserligen som självmord, men kommissarie Svensson konstaterar ganska omgående att det i själva verket är mord. Där finns åtskilliga misstänkta: den döde byråchefen P.M. var en stor Don Juan och en hård ämbetsman. Ett ämbetsverk kan under den skenbart Iugna ytan dölja lidelser och slitningar av oväntad intensitet. Spänningen stegras av den kvävande sommarhettan i gräsänklingarnas Stockholm och mördaren drivs vidare mot nya dåd.

To rockere bliver ofre for en bilbombe i slutningen af krimien "Det onde netvaerk". Den ene er endda praesident for White Sharks, og nu skal de begraves i stor stil. Så her begynder Nemesis, og kriminalassistent Bjørn Agger og hans kollegaer må fortsaette opklaringen af bombeattentater, likvideringer, bandeopgør, haevnaktioner, kvindehandel, ulovlig prostitution, narkotikasmugling og alt det andet, de møder i deres daglige arbejde på Station City i København.

Tip top Unterhaltung von der ersten bis zu letzten Minute - Die Tatsache, dass der Reiniger wieder aufgetaucht ist, lässt Roland Benito nicht los. Er recherchiert, genau wie die Journalistin Anne Larsen, weiter um eine Verbindung zwischen dem Reiniger, den Morden und dem Gefangenen Patrick Asp zu finden. Anne Larsen ist dem Geheimnis auf der Spur und findet schließlich Bertram allein in der Wohnung vor. Beim Rauchen eines Joints vertraut sich Bertram der Journalistin an, zeigt ihr das geheime Netzwerk und die Todeliste.