Swedish Crime Fiction

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....

En orkan drar över Sverige. Kaos följer i dess spår. En last med cigaretter, värd femtio miljoner kronor har försvunnit från Stockholms frihamn. Två män ligger mördade på kajen. En ung kvinna, Aida, flyr för sitt liv därifrån. Så börjar Liza Marklunds nya roman Paradiset. Det har gått drygt två år sedan de dramatiska händelserna i slutet av Studio sex. Journalisten Annika Bengtzon arbetar som textgranskare på tidningen Kvällspressen.

En svensk familj hittas mördad i sitt hem på Costa del Sol i södra Spanien – alla utom den 16-åriga dottern, som är spårlöst försvunnen. Först tror polisen att det är ett inbrott som gått fel, men ju mer brottet granskas, desto märkligare blir det. När också inbrottstjuvarna påträffas döda lamslås hela utredningen. Brottet sänder en chockvåg som skakar om, till och med på den brottstyngda Solkusten. Annika Bengtzon skickas ner till Marbella för att bevaka morden.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

When a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmö, Inspector Anita Sundström doesn't want to get entangled in a simple missing persons case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared. But when the mysteries take a sinister turn, Sundström finds herself inextricably involved in both baffling affairs, one of which seems to be connected to a robbery that took place 20 years earlier. As the cases begin to unravel, tragedy awaits the investigating team.

Lucky Santangelo har en plan. Hon ska köpa Panther Studios - filmbolaget som hennes skådespelande make, Lennie Golden, är bunden till. Allt som behövs är att gamle Abe Panther går med på att sälja. Vad Lucky aldrig kunnat förutspå är att Abe har ett väldigt specifikt krav för att affären ska gå i lås. Hon måste hjälpa honom sätta dit arvtagarna som driver bolaget, en gång för alla. Sex veckors arbete under täckmantel - sen är Panther Studios hennes.

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.

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.

In einem kleinen Waldstück bei Vimmerby, mitten in der schwedischen Provinz, wird eine weibliche Leiche gefunden. Sie hat weder Handy noch Papiere bei sich. Die Ermittler Marten Henriksson und Lena Wallin - einst glücklich verheiratet - übernehmen den Fall und kämpfen währenddessen mit ihrer gemeinsamen Vergangenheit.

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.

As the spring warmth melts the ice, divers search the wreckage at the bottom of the Ångermanland River - but the murdered man they recover was put there much more recently than the historic artefacts they were seeking. Local Detective Eira Sjödin, newly pregnant and not talking about it, is proud to be put in charge of the investigation - until she discovers the man's identity, and the evidence begins to point towards her own family.

Gothenburg, Sweden: During a break-in at the luxurious home of Kenneth and Viola Svalborg, someone has neatly sliced valuable paintings from their frames. Also missing is the neighbor's beautiful 15-year-old daughter, Elina Gullberg, who was babysitting for the Svalborg's two sons. Did she follow the thieves of her own accord? Was she involved with the break-in? Her parents, Daniel and Miriam Gullberg, are sick with worry.

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.

Fredagen den 4 april 1997, ett knappt halvår efter regeringsskiftet i Norge: Det har varit turbulenta tider för Birgitte Volter alltsedan hon övertog statsministerposten. Men nu är hon död. Hon har skjutits i huvudet. På sitt kontor, uppe på sextonde våningen i regeringsbyggnaden. Och frågan är: Vem är det egentligen som har blivit skjuten: är det statsministern, eller är det Birgitte, privatpersonen?