Scandinavian Crime

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you ‘fix’ people for a living - terminally - it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She’s his boss’ wife. And Olav’s just been hired to kill her. From the best-selling author of BAFTA-nominated Headhunters comes Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow.

The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes. In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten corrections and amendments on every page.

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage nighttime attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher, he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect.

Si William Stark n'avait pas été intrigué par un SMS envoyé du Cameroun, René Ericksen, son boss au Bureau d'Aide au Développement, n'aurait pas été obligé de se débarrasser de lui. Si Marco, un jeune voleur gitan n'avait pas trouvé refuge là où le cadavre putréfié de Stark végète depuis trois ans, son oncle, chef d'un réseau mafieux, n'aurait pas lancé ses hommes à ses trousses à travers tout Copenhague pour l'empêcher de révéler à la police l'existence de ce corps qu'il a enterré de ses propres mains.

"Schuldig." Nur dieses eine Wort steht auf dem Pappschild des jungen Mannes, der in Kopenhagen unter einer Straßenlaterne sitzt. Am nächsten Morgen liegt er leblos im Schnee, ermordet. Jensen, Journalistin bei der Zeitung Dagbladet, stolpert fast über seine Leiche. Sie ruft Kommissar Henrik Jungersen zum Tatort, ihren besten Kontakt bei der Kopenhagener Polizei - und ehemaligen Liebhaber. Es ist schon der zweite Mord an einem Obdachlosen innerhalb von zwei Wochen, und als kurz darauf eine dritte Leiche auftaucht, gehen alle von einem Serien-Mörder aus.

In Bangkok wurde der norwegische Botschafter ermordet. Harry Hole soll die thailändische Polizei bei der Mordermittlung unterstützen und taucht tief in die Unterwelt einer Stadt ab, in der Moral und Gesetz keine Rolle spielen. Dabei findet er über den Ermordeten, der ein enger Weggefährte des norwegischen Ministerpräsidenten war, mehr heraus, als seinen Vorgesetzten lieb ist.

'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.

It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this the same killer, and what could the connection be? In this investigation, Wallander is always, tantalisingly, one step behind.

Ein Serienmörder tötet auf bestialische Art und Weise. Seine Opfer: junge Mütter. Auf der fieberhaften Jagd nach dem unheimlichen SCHNEEMANN kämpft sich Kommissar Harry Hole durch ein Labyrinth aus Verdächtigungen und falschen Spuren. Immer neue Morde geschehen. Als Hole selbst ins Visier des Killers gerät, entwickelt sich ein gnadenloses Duell.

In an orphanage outside Oslo, twelve-year-old Olav is causing havoc. The institution's ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees sheer hatred in the boy's eyes. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk, stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife – with Olav nowhere to be found – the case goes to Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to superintendent in the Oslo police. Hanne suspects that Olav witnessed the murder and fled, and she orders an investigation of the orphanage staff.

Zugegeben, der Osloer Kommissar Harry Hole kann sich einer gewissen Faszination nicht entziehen. Als er den Auftragskiller Stankic ins Visier genommen hat, trifft er auf einen ebenbürtigen Gegner. Der kroatische Kriegsveteran zwingt ihn in ein atemloses Duell, in einen unerbittlichen Wettlauf auf Leben und Tod. Jo Nesbøs Krimiserie um Kommissar Harry Hole ist weltweit erfolgreich und der eigenwillige Ermittler genießt Kultstatus.

Two young women are missing in Oslo. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline, the hunt is on to find a murderer with singular compulsions. Catching this criminal calls for a detective with a singular mind: Harry Hole. But Harry is gone: fired from the police force and down and out in Los Angeles. It seems like nothing can entice him back home—until someone close to him comes under threat. Now the clock is ticking, for Harry's friend and for the missing woman.

Has anyone seen Andreas? Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But its not easy for Zipp to come forward with details of the last time he saw his friend - they had been following an old woman, an easy target for some quick cash, and Andreas boldly followed her into her home brandishing his knife, the next moment he was gone.

Former cop Emma Tapper and her lawyer boss Angela Köhler are defending shipping boss Anita Spendel, charged with murdering her billionaire husband. Anita insists Martin Spendel is still alive, but his car is soaked in his blood. Emma must clear Anita’s name by finding the missing man—dead or alive… Meanwhile, on a luxury yacht off the coast of Ibiza, Bianca Aguilera is relaxing in the sun when a drone delivers an unexpected parcel. The contents: chilling evidence that someone close to her is dead. Horror quickly turns to realisation.

Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in a shepherd’s cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother; and her young son, Knut. But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon to insanity.

En augustimorgon hittas den tjugofemårige landslagsstjärnan i fotboll, Henrik Borg, död i sängen i sin sommarstuga utanför Ystad. Det mesta tyder på att det är ett naturligt dödsfall, men en detalj förbryllar polisen: på Henrik Borgs bröst, under hans knäppta händer, ligger en blå ros. Inom en vecka, men på helt andra ställen i Sverige, påträffas ytterligare två dödsfall under likadana omständigheter: en fyrtiosjuårig pilot i Kiruna och en ung kvinnlig dansare i Göteborg.

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; María had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a séance that María attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into María's death.

Sur le bureau de Mørck, le dossier d'un double meurtre impliquant une bande de fils de famille, innocentée par les aveux "spontanés" de l'assassin...

Eine Tote am Strand und ein mörderisches Geheimnis aus der Vergangenheit... Im beschaulichen Dörfchen Kollund an der deutsch-dänischen Grenze wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Erschossen am Strand. Die Tote wird als Liva Jørgensen identifiziert, die zwölf Jahre zuvor spurlos verschwand. Was ist damals wirklich geschehen? Vibeke Boisen, Leiterin der Flensburger Mordkommission, und ihr Kollege Rasmus Nyborg, von der dänischen Polizei, rollen den alten Fall wieder auf und stechen damit in ein Wespennest. Ihre Ermittlungen führen sie in höchste politische Kreise.