Swedish Crime

Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a lodger into their home: Karla, a law student and aspiring judge, who works as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Her clients are the Rytters, an incredibly wealthy couple who hide behind closed doors. The wife is ill and hasn’t left the house in months. The husband is controlling and obsessive. Is he just a worried husband, concerned for his wife’s health? Or is there something more sinister at play?

A murder mystery set in the heart of Sweden by the author of the Gemini and Flowers novels, The King’s House and Who Dun It? Noah Hunter, a Scottish architect and single father, moves to the small Swedish town of Rättvik with his son, Toby. He has come to work for Hanson Hus, an old-established company that builds timber houses. As they settle into their new lives in Sweden, the town is shocked by the disappearance of a little boy. Has he drowned in the lake or has he been abducted? Then the boy’s body is found in the forest, brutally murdered. A murder enquiry starts but then another ...

Dead women should not show up in photos fourteen years beyond the grave. But if anyone is likely to recognize Claire Lidman, it's her husband, Samuel. He brings the photo to Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas. Their initial skepticism gives way to cautious belief—but where will this case lead them? Meanwhile, Rekke's daughter, Julia, has a new boyfriend she's determined to keep secret. When word gets out, Micaela's world collapses around her, and Rekke is forced to confront a nemesis from his youth.

En ung kvinna hittas sexmördad på en kyrkogård. En minister misstänks för brottet. Om ett par veckor är det riksdagsval och drevet går. Annika Bengtzon är vikarie på tidningen Kvällspressen. Hon ser mordet som sin chans att få ett fast jobb.

Detective Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö’s Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry when, in the middle of a high profile kidnapping case, management relegates her to the so-called Department of Lost Souls—the unit for odd, cold cases banished to the basement of the police station.

The clock is ticking… Black-ops agent John Seal is sent to Stockholm on a simple Secret PANDORA mission in the midst of winter to intercept a scheduled dead drop between a Swedish Security Service agent by impersonating a local CIA operative. But the brutal murder of the SSS agent only seconds away from grabbing the package, sends John racing through the icy alleyways and gritty streets forcing him to take cover. During an epic blizzard, John is faced with uncertain loyalties and conflicting agendas as he struggles to follow new orders — recover the highly sensitive contents of the ...

Umeå, Northern Sweden: Willmar Björkman has been incarcerated for five years after being found guilty on a murder charge; albeit unjustly convicted according to his claims. From the very start, he has adamantly maintained that he is innocent of the crime. Detectives Lars and Elin are hired to find new evidence that casts doubt upon the validity of the guilty verdict so that a retrial of his case can be requested. Is that even possible now that so much time has passed? The two detectives start asking around to dig up some new information, but find themselves facing a wall of silence - ...

Stockholm, 1794: A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in a hospital as the rest of the city claims that he belongs in a madhouse. Riddled with guilt, he writes down the memories of his lost love—his beautiful wife who died on their wedding night. The young woman’s mother also mourns her death and, desperate for justice, begs for help from the only person who will listen to her: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. But she isn’t the only person seeking him out.

I Uppsala vaknar Victor Holmberg kallsvettig om nätterna. Hans förflutna släpper honom inte. Just när han trodde att det fruktansvärda var bakom honom, kommer de igen med förnyad kraft. Männen som aldrig slutar söka. I en trea i Hagsätra bor fem afghaner, tre afrikaner och två östeuropéer. För femton kronor i timmen städar de, lagar mat och serverar, duckar för gränspoliser och chefers chefer. När en av dem mördas är det som om det aldrig har hänt.

Annika Bengtzon är tillbaka på Kvällspressens redaktion i Stockholm efter tre år som tidningens korrespondent i Washington. Hon har återförenats med sin make, Thomas, som arbetar på justitiedepartementet med internationella säkerhetsanalyser. En eftermiddag hittas en ung småbarnsmamma död och översnöad bakom ett daghem i förorten Axelsberg i södra Stockholm. Hon är det fjärde offret på kort tid under liknande omständigheter: kvinna, ung, mamma, knivhuggen bakifrån.

Read the first three books of the series around the private detectives Lars and Elin in one volume: VANISHED? 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...

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.

What happens if you fall in love with the wrong person? Two friends, two artists, two men that love the same woman - a tragedy, an unforgivable deception and a chance to begin again. Killing a Friend is a book of love, longing and lust.T.S. O'Rourke's writing has been declared powerful and beautiful by both readers and critics alike.

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.

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?

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.

Någon spränger det nybyggda Olympiastadion bara ett par månader innan de olympiska sommarspelen i Stockholm ska invigas. På den söndertrasade läktaren hittas resterna av den beundrade OS-chefen, Christina Furhage. Tidningen Kvällspressens kvinnliga kriminalchef Annika Bengtzon, en ung småbarnsmamma, bevakar mordet. Det finns något under Christina Furhages perfekta yta som utlöst det vidriga brottet. Utan att förstå det sätter Annika igång krafter som till slut hotar hennes eget liv.

When a newspaper delivery boy finds a 68-year-old alcoholic lying dead in his apartment - beaten with a saucepan lid and hammer, and then strangled - everyone expects an open-and-shut murder case, everyone that is but Hawaiian-shirt clad Detective Bäckström who's been assigned to lead the investigation team.

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.

William Warwick har alltid drömt om att bli polis, mot sin familjs vilja och förhoppningar. Efter en examen i konsthistoria börjar han polisskolan istället för att följa sin fars fotspår och bli advokat. Han avancerar snabbt inom kåren och hans kunskaper i konsthistoria kommer till oväntad hjälp. När William utreder en stulen tavla träffar han även på en av museets anställda - Beth. William faller handlöst, men anar att något döljer sig under ytan ... "Falska spår" är den första boken i serien om William Warwick.