Scandinavian Mysteries

William’s father is a beloved opera singer in Stockholm, charismatic and unpredictable. Raised in the shadow of his father’s addictions—women, drink, and cruelty—he knows the man’s dark side. William believes he’s found the light when he falls in love with a fellow university student, a young woman named Ebba. But his father’s hold on his life is not so easily broken. Even in death.

Im eisigen Norwegen lauert tödliche Kälte – und ein Mörder in der Dunkelheit. Der packende Kriminalroman vor der düsteren Kulisse Skandinaviens. Im hohen Norden Norwegens verschwinden Forscher von einer arktischen Wetterstation – ohne jede Spur. Kommissar Karl Sortland und sein neuer Partner Mats Samuelsson werden nach Bjørnøya entsandt, um das Mysterium zu lüften. Vor Ort erwarten sie eine verwüstete Forschungsstation, eine Leiche und eine schwer verletzte Stationsleiterin.

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.

In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.

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.

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 boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from.

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.

Småland, kurz vor Mittsommer. In einem Wald wird der von Pfeilen durchbohrte Leichnam eines Lehrers gefunden. Die Todesumstände erinnern an die Darstellung frühchristlicher Märtyrer. Bald darauf tauchen an der Domkirche seltsame Zeichen auf. Haben Nyström und Forss es mit einem religiösen Ritualmord zu tun? Als ein weiterer Toter entdeckt wird, erhöht sich der Druck auf die beiden ungleichen Frauen spürbar.

After completing a dangerous mission training police officers in war-torn Afghanistan, Detective Maria Kallio returns to Finland as the head of a new special crimes unit. But what awaits her in her home country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet. Three immigrant Muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. When the body of a fourth girl is found in the snow, strangled with her own headscarf, the investigation takes on a grim new urgency.

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...

Summer 1983: four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again. Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to terms with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend's disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time?

On the eve of their thirtieth birthday, twins Jasmine and Nicolas Moretti celebrate late into the night. But when Nicolas wakes several hazy hours later, Jasmine is dead—and he is covered in her blood. Panicking, he takes the murder weapon and runs into the cold Stockholm night. For the police, it’s an open-and-shut case. Nicolas is guilty. And given that he remembers so little of what happened that night, even he isn’t convinced of his innocence.

Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent in the Stockholm archipelago, and his own mysterious family past. Now behind a desk at Vektor, a think tank conducting research on Russia, he’s met his match - and fallen in love - with fierce fellow operative Pashie Kovalenko. Like all of Vektor, she’s set her sights on the tenuous future of her country.

Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5 centuries by two Nordic colonies, Vestri-bygd and Eystri-bygd Shares extensive evidence from the still-living indigenous oral tradition of the Far North as well as surviving sculptural art to show how the...

In this "flawless," fast-paced crime thriller, Scandinavia's hottest new writing duo, Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt, present the first book in the Sebastian Bergman series (Politiken). It all begins with a call to the police. A sixteen-year-old boy, Roger Eriksson, has gone missing in the...

August Strindberg ist so glücklich wie lange nicht mehr. Sein Secondhand-Laden läuft besser als gedacht, und: August ist verliebt – in die Kriminalkommissarin Maria Martinsson. Doch dann bricht in seinem neuen Heimatort Hovenäset in einer kalten Januarnacht ein Feuer aus. Dabei werden zwei Bootshäuser zerstört – eines davon gehört August. Als plötzlich eine Leiche auftaucht, ermittelt die Polizei nicht wegen Brandstiftung, sondern wegen Mordes! In dem verschlafenen Küstenort versucht jemand, ein dunkles Geheimnis zu verbergen, und auf einmal befinden sich sowohl Maria als auch August in der Schusslinie.

Manche Geheimnisse sind so grausam, dass sie einen verstummen lassen... Seit vielen Jahren hat die einst gefeierte Kinderbuchautorin Thea Aldrin mit niemandem mehr gesprochen. Doch jeden Samstag schickt ihr ein Fremder einen Strauß Blumen und eine Karte, auf der ein einziges Wort steht: Danke. Dann besucht eine Studentin sie im Pflegeheim - und verschwindet kurz danach spurlos. Zwei Jahre später wird die Leiche der jungen Frau in einem Waldstück in Midsommarkransen gefunden.

Drei Tote – ein Geheimnis. Der Selbstmord eines Häftlings auf Freigang, der Tod einer Museumsangestellten und ein dreieinhalb Jahre zurückliegender Mord an einem Journalisten – diese Fälle können keine Gemeinsamkeit haben. Oder doch? Die ehemalige Polizistin Liv Jensen, die sich gerade als Privatdetektivin in Kopenhagen selbstständig gemacht hat, versucht genau das herauszufinden.

Knapp nur hat Kommissarin Saga Bauer den letzten Einsatz überlebt. Bevor sie endlich die Reha-Klinik verlassen kann, erreicht sie noch eine handgeschriebene Postkarte: "Eine blutrote Pistole liegt vor mir. In deren Magazin befinden sich neun weiße Kugeln. Eine dieser Kugeln ist für Joona Linna bestimmt. Die einzige Person, die ihn retten kann, bist du." Unterschrieben ist die Karte mit einem Anagramm vom Serienmörder Jurek Walter. Als Saga von dieser Drohung Joona Linna erzählt, winkt der ab. Er ist sicher, dass Jurek Walter nicht mehr lebt.