Swedish Crime

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.

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?

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?

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.

Annika Bengtzons syster Birgitta är försvunnen. Det sista livstecknet är ett sms – Annika, hjälp mig! Kvällspressens papperstidning ser ut att gå i graven. Om det inte sker ett mirakel kommer chefredaktör Anders Schyman att gå till historien som den som lade ner den svenska journalistiken. Under tiden pågår en uppmärksammad rättegång om ett ytterst bestialiskt mord på en uteliggare. Dagarna går och Birgitta kommer inte tillbaka. Hennes försvinnande innebär att Annika måste konfronteras med sitt komplicerade förflutna.

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 ...

Det är inte vilka pensionärer som helst som hamnar i kampen mot extrem och ytterst välorganiserad brottslighet. Den ene är journalistveteranen Erik Ponti, den andre hans gamle vän från förr, den forne underrättelseofficeren Carl Hamilton. Till synes ett mycket omaka par, som det dock vore oklokt att underskatta. De hamnar snart i ett mycket händelserikt äventyr där inte bara livet står på spel.

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.

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.

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.

En kall och blöt majdag hittas riskkapitalisten och före detta riksdagsmannen Ingemar Lerberg torterad och medvetslös i sin fashionabla villa utanför Stockholm. Hans hustru Nora är spårlöst försvunnen. På Kvällspressen får Annika Bengtzon i uppdrag att skriva om fallet samtidigt som hennes privatliv är i gungning. Hon lever tillsammans med sin nya kärlek och hans barn, och hon delar vårdnaden om sina egna barn med ex-maken. Det fungerar inte smärtfritt.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

En mördare i aftonklänning tar sig in på Nobelfesten i Stockholms Stadshus. På dansgolvet i Gyllene Salen skjuter hon Nobelkommitténs ordförande rakt genom hjärtat. Annika Bengtzon dras ofrivilligt in i dramat - inte som journalist, utan som vittne. Det vänder upp och ner på hela hennes tillvaro. Äktenskapet knakar och hennes anställning hotas Snart befinner sig Annika mitt i en våldsam historia av terror och död som utspelar sig genom flera sekler.

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.