Scandinavian Fiction

Einst verschwanden ihre Schwestern spurlos. Jetzt leitet Hildur Rúnarsdóttir die Einheit für vermisste Kinder in den Westfjorden, und ihr altes Trauma holt sie wieder ein. Sie surft auf den eisigen Wellen des Atlantiks, umgeben von der rauen Natur Islands, um ihren größten Schmerz zu vergessen. Was wurde aus ihren Schwestern, die seit über zwanzig Jahren vermisst werden? Diese Frage stellt sich Kriminalbeamtin Hildur Rúnarsdóttir jeden Tag, wenn sie als Leiterin der Einheit für vermisste Kinder in den abgelegenen Westfjorden unterwegs ist.

Some cases aren’t as cold as you’d think. Kurt Wallander’s life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman.As police officers comb the property, Wallander attempts to get his new life back on course by finding the woman’s killer with the aid of his daughter, Linda. But when another discovery is made in the garden, Wallander is forced to delve further back into the area's past.

Den midaldrende Mary Horton er godt tilfreds med sin komfortable, men ensomme tilværelse - lige indtil hun møder Tim. En billedskøn, ung mand, der mentalt er udviklet som et barn. De to udvikler et varmt venskab. Tim rusker op i Marys respektable, velordnede liv med det forbudte løfte om en ganske særlig kærlighed.

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.

In 1643, a manuscript was discovered, clearly written as early as 1300, containing 29 poems, complete or fragmentary. Various linguistic forensic techniques suggest that the poems were shaped even earlier, stretching as far back as AD 850, well within the Viking era. When it comes to the Norse myths, they are the closest thing we have to reading these stories as the Vikings actually told them, around those ancient campfires so long ago.

Fem tonårsflickor i den lilla staden Stenträsk i Norrbotten träffas en gång i månaden för att diskutera litteratur. En av dem försvinner spårlöst sommaren 1980. Fyrtio år senare hittas hon, mördad. Julen 2020 återförenas de fyra kvinnorna i bokcirkeln, som de kallade för Polcirkeln, för första gången efter kamratens försvinnande. Det står snart klart att något i flickornas relationer utlöste det våldsamma brottet. Frågan är vad, och vad som drev dem då och vilka konsekvenser det fick.

Først stak Emil fra Lønneberg hovedet i suppeterrinen og måtte af sted til lægen i Mariannelund for at komme fri igen. Så hejste han lille Ida op i flagstangen, og til slut skabte han vildt postyr til markedet på Hultfreds slette. - Og det var endda kun nogle af alle de skarnsstreger, Emil fra Katholt i Lønneberg i Småland i Sverige bedrev den sommer.

Jen Beeny is leaving her turbulent past behind and now it's time to start living. Or at least she's trying to. Between her dead-end job, live-in-landlord and disastrous dates, life in London is not quite turning out as she'd planned. When her dates start to go missing, Jen is determined to ignore the sense of dread building inside her. She continues on with life...until the police come knocking. All signs suggest Jen is the culprit, and the internet sleuths are gaining traction. But Jen didn't do anything wrong, did she?

He calls himself Ulf—as good a name as any, he thinks—and the only thing he’s looking for is a place where he won’t be found by Oslo’s most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman’s fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed—which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in Kåsund, on Norway’s far northeastern border, he sees a “flat, monotonous, bleak landscape . . . the perfect hiding place. Hopefully.”

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.

When a steel industry executive is found dead in a burning BMW, the death is quickly dismissed as a tragic accident. After another nearly identical accident occurs, criminal inspector Eva Nyman receives a letter that reveals details of an upcoming, and much more vicious, attack, leading her to believe that these are a deliberate series of murders, possibly even a case of climate terrorism. In the letter, Eva recognizes a phrase that was often used by her disgraced former boss, Lukas Frisell, who went off the grid after botching a kidnapping investigation.

THAILAND: Auf dem Mekong gleitet ein Kanu. Die Augen des Fahrers tränen. Er hat die Zivilisation hinter sich gelassen, um ins Goldene Dreieck zu gelangen. Es ist eine Reise zu sich selbst und ein Versuch, die schreckliche Tat aufzuarbeiten, die ihn verfolgt. Der Mann in dem Kanu ist Ex-Kriminalkommissar Tom Stilton. STOCKHOLM: Olivia Rönning ist mit einem Mord befasst, der Schweden in Atem hält. Eine ganze Familie wurde kurz vor der Fahrt in die Winterferien in ihrem Auto brutal ermordet. Der schwedische Geheimdienst lieferte schnell einen Verdächtigen, der auch verurteilt wird.

Police detective Hannah Duncker didn’t expect to return to her native Öland. She fled after her father’s murder conviction and returns to make peace with her shame. She has a new job with the local police and a nosy new partner. A 15-year-old’s death catapults her into a murder investigation that resurrects ghosts from her previous life. As she hunts for the truth, she must confront the people she abandoned. Not all are pleased to see her back home, and she soon learns that digging through the past comes with consequences.

Local girls' soccer coach Sven-Gunnar Erlandsson is practically a saint in the community, known for his good works and volunteering. So when his body is found in Stockholm's beautiful Herräng forest, shot at close range in the back of the neck while walking home from a late-night poker game, the police struggle to find a motive. Nothing has been taken from his pockets except his cell phone, and the only other clues left behind are a cryptic handwritten note and a handful of playing cards.

Nel romanzo che chiude il ciclo della Settologia di Jon Fosse seguiamo, in un viaggio a ritroso nel tempo, le vite dei due Asle: il narratore incontra il suo amore di una vita, Ales, si unisce alla Chiesa Cattolica e inizia a guadagnarsi da vivere cercando di dipingere le immagini dalle tinte fosche che si imprimono nella sua mente. Un’esplorazione trascendente della condizione umana e un’esperienza di lettura ammaliante, ipnotica e trascinante, una riflessione a tutto tondo sull’essere umano e su quello che è capace di provare dentro di sé.

Jahrelang bleibt der Hilfeschrei ungehört, als Brief im Inneren einer verwitterten Flaschenpost verborgen. Dann landet die Botschaft im Sonderdezernat Q für unaufgeklärte Fälle. Entsetzt stellen Kommissar Carl Mørck und sein Assistent Assad fest, dass der Brief mit menschlichem Blut geschrieben wurde. Offenbar ist er das letzte Lebenszeichen zweier Jungen, die Jahre zuvor entführt wurden. Doch wer sind diese Jungen? Warum haben ihre Eltern nie eine Vermisstenanzeige aufgegeben?

Due uomini condividono lo stesso nome, Asle. Uno è un uomo di successo, l’altro alza il gomito troppo spesso. Viene da pensare che siano la stessa persona, eppure a volte si incontrano e si parlano. Il tempo e lo spazio li seguono come due rette che a volte sembrano intersecarsi, su quella che potrebbe essere la costa sudoccidentale della Norvegia, tra i ghiacci, il mare scuro e i fiordi. Tra amori fugaci, alcool, gruppi rock e sigarette, i due Asle si incontrano per la prima volta. Si assomigliano, si vestono allo stesso modo ed entrambi vogliono fare i pittori.

Forældre i dag har aldrig været mere vidende om deres rolle som forældre, og alligevel er mange grundusikre på, om de gør det godt nok, og hvordan de i det hele taget kan blive de bedst mulige forældre. Men generelt kan forældre roligt sænke skuldrene, for det uperfekte er meget bedre end sit rygte.
Budskabet i Lene Tanggaards bog er derfor en god nyhed: de fleste forældre gør det fremragende. Er du forælder, så se på og lyt til dit barn og til det, din krop og dømmekraft fortæller dig.

Vor Jahren wurde die Leiche einer Frau in einem von Nägeln durchbohrten Fass gefunden. Und nun hat der Mörder ein neues Ziel... Der zweite Fall für Kommissar Kristoffer Bark! Sechs Monate nach der dramatischen Suche nach seiner Tochter ist bei Kristoffer Bark eines unverändert: Er blättert immer noch in den staubigen Akten ungelöster Cold Cases. Gerade befasst er sich mit dem Fall Emelie Kartmann, die vor Jahren grausam ermordet wurde. Das Opfer hatte zuvor angegeben, gestalkt zu werden.

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.