Scandinavian Mysteries

Police discover the lifeless body of a young woman on an abandoned yacht. The next day, a man is found hanging in his apartment. When Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer uncover a surprising connection between the two deaths, they realize they are up against a brutal killer and a ruthless business tycoon who preys on his victims’ worst nightmares to achieve his sinister ends.

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?

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.

An in-depth and personal exploration of Scandinavian crime fiction as a way into Scandinavian culture at large.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Freelance private detective Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt is attempting to move on with his life following the murder of his girlfriend. But when wealthy business mogul Ferdinand Mesmer enlists his help finding his son, Ravn reluctantly takes on what he thinks will be a straightforward missing person case. A decade ago, Jacob Mesmer founded the mysterious and scandal-scarred religious sect "God's Chosen." Now he's vanished without a trace. As Ravn digs deeper, he discovers the previous private eye assigned to the case has also disappeared.

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.

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.

När en människa hittas brutalt mördad inne på Akademibokhandeln i Uppsala uppstår tumult i staden. Kriminalinspektörerna Kenneth Klintman och Lisa Norén vid Uppsalas krimjour får återigen ta sig an ett dunkelt fall. De förstår snart att brottets förövare är ovanligt ung - nämligen en mula. Mulan är en fristående fortsättning på Ulf Brobergs böcker Den tredje mannen och Den döende radiomannen. Ulf Broberg, född 1954, har arbetat som radiojournalist för Radio Uppland och Sveriges Radio sedan början av 90-talet.

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short. Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest.

Drei Paare aus Uppsala planen eine Reise ans Schwarze Meer. Aber was lustig beginnt, endet im Desaster...

Als Janek Mitter eines Morgens mit einem entsetzlichen Kater aufwacht, liegt seine Frau Eva ermordet in der Badewanne. Er ist sich sicher, dass er nicht der Mörder ist, aber beweisen kann er es nicht. Am Vorabend hatte er mächtig gezecht, und nun fehlen ihm einige Stunden in der Erinnerung...

Dans les villages du Groenland, une étrange épidémie de suicides touche les jeunes gens. Mais la misère sociale et la rudesse climatique n’expliquent pas tout... Après un long passage à vide, la hiérarchie de Qaanaaq Adriensen l’a autorisé à reprendre son poste de chef de la police de Nuuk, la capitale du pays. Mais sous deux conditions : être suivi par une thérapeute, et renoncer aux expéditions sanglantes qui ont fait sa réputation. Hélas, ses démons le reprennent vite, au grand dam de son adjoint inuit, Apputiku Kalakek.

Efter en traumatisk upplevelse på sitt jobb kommenderar polisen Thor Bellings chef honom att ta semester. Han fördriver de lediga dagarna på ett hotell på Själlands norra kust. Tristessen avbryts dock när ett inbrott i en närliggande villa går fel, med ödesdigra konsekvenser. Polisens mordavdelning blir involverad i fallet, och Thor tvekar inte att avbryta sin semester och ta på sig uniformen igen för att hjälpa till med utredningen. På utredningsgruppen finns också den unga och ambitiösa Anita Hvid, och ett intensivt samarbete börjar gro.

Das Spiel und Leben und Tod - ungewöhnlich packend, mörderisch philosophisch. Jahrelang saß der 54-jährige Bibliotheksangestellte Maertens wegen Mordes an seinem Professor im Gefängnis. Inzwischen wieder in Freiheit, lebt er völlig zurückgezogen. Doch plötzlich gerät sein sorgsam ausgetüfteltes Dasein aus dem Gleichgewicht: Sein einstmals bester Freund Tomas ist gestorben und hat ihm ein ungewöhnliches Erbe hinterlassen. Als Maertens es antritt, wird ihm allmählich klar, dass sein Freund ihn vor Jahren brutal hintergangen hat.

Håkan Nessers neuer Krimi um Intrigen und Mord im schwedischen Literaturbetrieb. Gibt es den perfekten Mord? Die Leser des erfolgreichen Autors Franz J. Lunde sind sich sicher: Wer einen Mord so schildert, muss ihn selbst begangen haben. Lunde, der an einem Manuskript mit dem Titel "Letzte Tage und Tod eines Schriftstellers" arbeitet, fühlt sich von seinem Publikum bedroht. Nach einer Lesung in Kymlinge ist er plötzlich spurlos verschwunden. Kurze Zeit später wird die bekannte Lyrikerin Maria Green vermisst. Auch sie hinterlässt ein rätselhaftes Schriftfragment.