Scandinavian Crime Fiction

The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten Jonsson. It’s a nightmare for the locals. The venture capitalist has flouted local traditions, property lines, and the natural beauty of the coastline. He’s also too wealthy and arrogant to heed the anonymous warnings to leave. The threats escalate when his guest lodge is burned to the ground and an unidentifiable corpse is found in the charred ruins.

"Om et par timer er jeg morder. Tanken burde skræmme mig fra vid og sans, men hvis jeg skal være ærlig, så er jeg lige nu mere optaget af, at mit højre ben sover" Sådan begynder historien om mordet på Lilliana, en ung stilfærdig kvinde, der en råkold novemberaften findes stranguleret på byens mest trendy reklamebureau. Opklaringen viser sig at blive mere end almindeligt kompliceret. Den døde er nemlig så godt som anonym; hun har intet efternavn, ingen adresse, intet personnummer.

Lisbeth Salander und Mikael Blomkvist haben Millionen Leser begeistert. Weltweit erstürmte die Millennium-Trilogie die Bestsellerlisten und sprengte mit mehr als 80 Millionen verkauften Exemplaren alle Dimensionen. Ein Welterfolg, der seinesgleichen sucht. Nun geht die Geschichte weiter.

Plus au nord que le nord, il y a : le Groenland. Une terre glacée, balayée par les vents, inaccessible sur la majeure partie de son territoire. Et qui recèle pourtant les histoire les plus sombres. C'est au travers du destin d'une femme que tout se joue. Elle porte en elle les déchirures et la soif de vengeance d'un pays. Elle est l'Inuite. Face à elle, deux flics, l'un groenlandais, l'autre danois, mènent chacun leur enquête : les meurtres récents d'un grand-père et de sa petite-fille sur une île isolée; et un scandale d'État qui remonte aux années 1950.

In the Swedish ski resort of Åre, crime is rare. Certainly nothing so brutal as the murder of Johan Andersson, a former Olympic skier found bound and beaten to death in the forest. According to his distraught wife, he didn’t have any enemies in the world. To Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog, the crime proves otherwise. But what could have provoked such rage? And in whom?

Lisbeth Salander und Mikael Blomkvist haben Millionen Leser begeistert. Weltweit erstürmte die Millennium-Trilogie die Bestsellerlisten und sprengte mit mehr als 80 Millionen verkauften Exemplaren alle Dimensionen. Ein Welterfolg, der seinesgleichen sucht. Nun geht die Geschichte weiter.

When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from.

The body of a homeless woman is found in the river, viciously beaten and with all her teeth removed. A young immigrant, the prime suspect in a recent spate of robberies in Umeå, was seen running in the vicinity around the time the body was dumped. Trouble is, he hasn’t been seen since. When he does appear, in the town square, he’s wearing an explosive vest and holding a detonator.

Hochspannung aus Dänemark! Der zweite Fall für Juncker & Kristiansen: vielschichtig, erschreckend und unglaublich spannend. Der schreckliche Terroranschlag in Kopenhagen wirft immer noch seine Schatten auf den Ermittler Martin Juncker: Während er im Fall eines toten Anwalts zu ermitteln beginnt, erhält seine Frau Charlotte einen Hinweis: Der Anschlag hätte verhindert werden können - und Martin soll in die Vertuschung verwickelt gewesen sein.

ليزبث سالاندر، المتمردة والثائرة، ضئيلة الحجم لكن قوية الشخصية وذات جرأة لا توصف، ذات التاريخ الحافل والأعداء الشديدي الخطورة، بطلة الثلاثية الشهيرة باسم ميلينيوم، تعود في مغامرة أخرى، لكن هذه الرواية ليست من كتابة الكاتب الأصلي للروايات ستيغ لارسون، لأن لارسون توفي فجأة في عام 2004 بسبب أزمة قلبية وقد كان يخطط لكتابة عشرة أجزاء من سلسلة ميلينيوم لكن وفاته حالت دون ذلك.

With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it something more ominous?

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

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.

In this crime drama, detective Varg Veum's adventures take him into the world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is found dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie. Called in by anxious parents to look for a missing daughter and explain the judge's death, Varg is led deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.

An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.

Sandhamn Island’s archipelago is a beautiful place to visit. For a mother on the run, it’s the only place to hide in a novel of escalating suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Still Waters.

When a new lead breaks in the cold case that has long haunted Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, the truth she's been seeking about her best friend's disappearance may finally be revealed - if it doesn't kill her first.

Left to her own devices, Detective Sergeant Charlie West struggles with the responsibility of a full-blown murder investigation when a man is pushed off a cliff. Not ready to have her apron strings severed so soon, West finds Munro who reluctantly agrees to shed light on the Ayrshire detectives' most challenging case yet. Once the police have discovered the identity of the dead man, and established his demise was the result of foul play, the race is on to hunt down the murderer.

Alors que des nuages noirs s'amoncellent au-dessus d'une île au large de la Suède, la commissaire Sanna Berling découvre un jeune homme mourant dans une ferme abandonnée. L'image de son corps couvert de blessures et ses derniers mots se gravent dans sa mémoire : " La fille... " L'enquête plonge Sanna et sa partenaire Eir Pedersen dans un monde violent, sous l'emprise d'adolescents délaissés, qui terrorisent les habitants de l'île et font ressortir les fantômes du passé.

La joven pareja formada por la escritora Erica y el detective Patrik disfrutan de unas merecidas vacaciones en la pequeña población costera de Fjällbacka. Erica está embarazada de ocho meses y el calor sofocante del verano vuelve especialmente difícil este último mes de gestación. La última cosa que necesita la joven pareja es un nuevo caso de asesinatos, pero el malhumorado comisario Mellberg le comunica a Patrik que un niño ha encontrado el cadáver de una mujer mientras jugaba.