Scandinavian Mysteries

On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.

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?

Manon Bradshaw är 39 år, och även om hon är en respekterad medlem av poliskåren och älskar sitt jobb önskar hon sig ett annat privatliv. Manon är singel, längtar efter barn, och stämpeln "desperat medelålders kvinna" närmar sig. En sen kväll, efter ännu en katastrofal nätdejt, sätter hon som vanligt på polisradion för att låta dess bakgrundsljud vagga henne till sömns - och hör ett meddelande som får henne att omedelbart bege sig till en förbryllande brottsplats.

DI Jamie Johansson is trying to find normality in Kurrajakk when she gets the chance to sit in on the Interpol interview linked to her last case. A pattern of mutilation and beheading on the Finnish border has Jamie's full attention, but Interpol seem more interested in the Russian connection. Begrudgingly, they let her follow up, and as usual, Jamie's nose for trouble doesn't steer her wrong.

Seventeen years ago, Criminal Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered, and the only survivor - and witness - was the five-year-old daughter. The girl was placed in the witness protection program, and the case went cold, but years later, Grens is still haunted by the seemingly random slaying and the little girl who was spared. So when he learns that the apartment where the crime occurred is now the scene of a mysterious break-in, Grens immediately fears that someone is intent on silencing the only witness.

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 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.

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.

Dans le vaste pays blanc, l'esprit de Nanook se réveille. Le grand ours polaire, seigneur des lieux, protégera les siens jusqu'au bout. Adopté à l'âge de trois ans, Qaanaaq Adriensen n'a jamais remis les pieds sur sa terre natale, le Groenland. C'est à contrecœur que ce redoutable enquêteur de Copenhague accepte d'aller aider la police locale, démunie devant ce qui s'annonce comme la plus grande affaire criminelle du pays : quatre ouvriers de plateformes pétrolières ont été retrouvés, le corps déchiqueté. Les blessures semblent caractéristiques d'une attaque d'ours polaire.

Die dunkelsten Geheimnisse einer Familie: Der skandinavische Autor Stieg Larsson hat mit der Millennium-Trilogie eine der spannendsten Krimi-Reihen überhaupt geschaffen. Das Hörbuch "Verblendung (Millennium-Trilogie 1)" wird von Dietmar Wunder, dem deutschen Synchronsprecher von Daniel Craig, gelesen.

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.

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.

Eine Handvoll Gäste, ein düsteres Geheimnis und nicht der Hauch einer Chance, zu entkommen. Sechs Personen brechen unabhängig voneinander in die Abgeschiedenheit Schwedens auf, um dort einen erholsamen Urlaub zu verbringen. Aber bei ihrer Ankunft ist nichts so, wie sie es sich vorgestellt haben. Als erste Hindernisse auftauchen und das Wetter plötzlich umschlägt, beginnen sie zu begreifen, dass sie in eine Falle gelockt wurden.

In den Wäldern von Schonen im südlichen Schweden kommt es zu einem entsetzlichen Verbrechen. Ein kleines Mädchen wird ermordet, als es friedlich spielend im Sandkasten sitzt. Ein familiärer Hintergrund? Doch zwei Tage später der zweite Kindermord, diesmal in der Nähe von Stockholm. Was verbindet die beiden Fälle? Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf eine rassistische Gruppierung, die beide Elternpaare zuvor offen bedroht hat. Aber ist es wirklich so einfach? Und warum tauchen gerade jetzt Hinweise auf einen alten, nie geklärten Mord an einer hochschwangeren Edelprostituierten auf?

It seemed like an open-and-shut case. But they couldn’t have been more wrong. When a 25-year-old woman is found dead in Stockholm, detective Vanessa Frank knows that there is more to the case than meets the eye. And when Vanessa finds herself on the trail of a dangerous internet community who call themselves "incels", her world starts to unravel. These ‘involuntarily celibate’ men have fostered hatred towards the women who turn them down, and now women are turning up dead.

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.

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?

De la Norvège à la Russie, un thriller intense aux confins sauvages de l'arctique. Archipel du Svalbard, Longyearbyen, la ville la plus au nord du monde. On découvre le corps d'une femme vraisemblablement déchiquetée par un ours. Norvège continentale, les îles Lofoten. Le cadavre d'une ex-journaliste est retrouvé sur une plage isolée. A priori rien ne lie ces victimes si ce n'est qu'elles s'intéressaient de près aux mammifères marins. L'une était doctorante en biologie arctique, l'autre, à la tête d'une agence d'excursion en mer.

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.

"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.