Swedish Crime

When Kirsty Wilson lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by Swedish fellow student Eva Magnusson she can't believe her luck. But Kirsty's delight turns to terror when she finds the beautiful Swedish girl lying dead in their home and their male flatmate accused of her murder. Kirsty refuses to accept that he is guilty and, inspired by family friend Detective Superintendent Lorimer, sets out to clear his name. Meanwhile, Lorimer calls on trusted psychologist Solly Brightman to help unravel the truth behind the enigmatic Eva's life and death.

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.

The Department of Sensitive Crimes is downsizing in light of a recent downturn of sensitive crime, and staff members are wondering who among them will be transferred elsewhere. As the bickering between colleagues intensifies, Ulf tries his best to stay above the fray. But when Anna, a long-time friend and co-worker, appears to blame him for an old case that went sideways, it seems she may be putting her own job prospects above their friendship. In the midst of all this, Ulf embarks on an important inquiry.

Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a familiar person's face. It causes stress. Acute anxiety. It can make you question what you think you know. When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, the horror of having come so close to a murderer—and not knowing if they’d be back—overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality.

Hon är helt säker på saken: hon är en mördare. Hercule Poirot är en av världens främsta detektiver - men han tvekar. Den unga kvinnan, som heter Norma, framstår inte som en mordisk typ. När hon så plötsligt försvinner spårlöst går det upp för Poirot att saker och ting inte står rätt till. Kvinnan omges av något mörker som Poirot inte riktigt kan se igenom, men han är åtminstone säker på en sak: han måste hjälpa henne. Innan det är för sent ...

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?

Dogge is from affluent Rönnviken in Stockholm. Billy lives in the concrete towers of Våringe, a few hundred yards across a highway but a world apart. They met as six-year-olds at Rönnviken’s playground and have been unlikely best friends ever since. From the outside, Dogge looks privileged: he lives in a large home and there is plenty of money—at first. But his parents are addicts whose negligence becomes a form of abuse. Meanwhile, Billy’s family are poor first-generation immigrants unable to escape the no-go zone where they live. But their cramped apartment is nonetheless a bastion of love.

She: a very hot 30-something Swedish woman. He: a native of Berlin, on vacation in rural Sweden, seeking solace for his broken heart. They meet. He finds her irresistible. But before their relationship can get off the ground, she vanishes mysteriously, having apparently been abducted. So Martin sets out to rescue Liv from her captors, with the aid of two Swedish detectives in a race against time - and across Sweden. In so doing, Martin and his intrepid detective duo put their very lives on the line.

For psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön, life is good. She and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren, have just returned from a dream holiday in Greenland, and the symptoms of her early onset dementia seem to be under control. Then they are asked to go to the small, sleepy industrial town of Ormberg to investigate a cold case: 10 years earlier a five-year-old girl's remains were found in a cairn near the town. With her dementia creeping back again, Hanne starts to keep a diary noting down everything she is likely to forget.

Sent en kväll lämnar en ung lettisk kvinna sin arbetsplats i Oslo – några minuter senare är hon död, påkörd av en bil. Men på kroppen finns också skador som måste ha uppkommit tidigare. Under utredningen upptäcker polisen en gemensam nämnare med ett annat fall, en pojke som försvunnit spårlöst. Samtidigt som det pågår en uppslitande maktkamp inom Oslopolisen måste Cato Isaksen och hans kolleger göra allt för att hitta den egentliga kopplingen mellan de tragiska händelserna.

It's been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man - a Mr Giuglù Nicotra - is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back.

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....

Intrigue, illusions, and insidious motives... Still recovering from testifying against her abuser, Chief Inspector Sara Vallén is called out to investigate a mysterious death in an idyllic allotment on the outskirts of Lund. The victim - a beloved social worker - is found brutally murdered inside one of the potting sheds. But when Sara and the police dig deeper into the case, they begin to unravel a web of dark secrets surrounding the victim's seemingly perfect life.

Oroligheter utbryter på Haiti och svenska minor hittas. Sveriges förtroende internationellt är i gungning. Två oväntade dödsfall på kort tid får Gabi att nysta i frågan och spåren leder till svenska flottans resor till Karibien decennier tidigare. Gabrielle Warg har lämnat en framgångsrik karriär och ett tryggt äktenskap bakom sig för att satsa på sin dröm – fotografi av det sensuella slaget.

Anders Brun arbetar för Veckan Runt med att bevaka kändisar. Han får i uppdrag att följa en berömd schlagersångerska, men spåret leder honom någon helt annanstans: till ett lik. Det som till en början verkar vara ett enkelt fall, visar sig snart vara närmast omöjligt och Brun måste ta till alla sina journalistiska knep (och fulknep) för att lyckas reda ut i den egendomliga härvan av ledtrådar, överklassdispyter och mysterier. Spåren leder honom snart till Libanon, och där väntar en mycket oväntad överraskning på honom.

I början av 2000-talet drabbades Sverige av en enorm våg av spektakulära rån. Det har skrivits mycket om grova rån, men nästan uteslutande ur polisens perspektiv. Här möter vi erfarna rånare som berättar om förberedelserna, vad som händer under tiden rånen pågår och hur de agerar när de kommit över pengarna. Anders Adali skildrar också sina egna erfarenheter. Under många år levde han ett dubbelliv som vanlig familjefar och grov brottsling. Allt fick ett slut när han dömdes till sju års fängelse för ett rån i Finland 2007. Domen blev en vändpunkt i Anders liv.

En sommarfredag i Stockholm: Ewert Truut är nära att bli skjuten av en desperat tonårsflicka. När hon avväpnats och förts till sjukhus visar det sig att någon skurit av hennes tunga. Något dygn senare blir en av Ewerts vänner brutalt mördad och verkligheten vänds upp och ner, inte minst när det visar sig att det finns en koppling mellan flickan och hans vän. När Ewert börjar nysta i trådarna dras han in i en ljusskygg härva av prostitution, människohandel och barnarov.

Set in the fictional city of Maardam, each story is linked by themes of secrets coming to light, lies being exposed, and pasts coming back to haunt the people who thought they had fled them – all told in Håkan Nesser’s signature style of dark, cutting prose that displays a true understanding of human nature. The collection is the basis for a trilogy of international films - Dear Agnes, Death of an Author and Samaria - directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Ben Kingsley and Gemma Chan.

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.

A woman’s skeletal remains are excavated on an uninhabited island in Sandhamn’s archipelago, and Thomas Andreasson is called to officially investigate. But his best friend, Nora Linde, can’t help but get involved. On leave after her last case took a dark turn, Nora is tortured by depression, nightmares, and guilt. Her marriage fractured, her pride chipped away, Nora could find redemption in this investigation.