Scandinavian Mysteries

young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star – a pentagram, the devil’s star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work. A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands....

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

August Strindberg ist so glücklich wie lange nicht mehr. Sein Secondhand-Laden läuft besser als gedacht, und: August ist verliebt – in die Kriminalkommissarin Maria Martinsson. Doch dann bricht in seinem neuen Heimatort Hovenäset in einer kalten Januarnacht ein Feuer aus. Dabei werden zwei Bootshäuser zerstört – eines davon gehört August. Als plötzlich eine Leiche auftaucht, ermittelt die Polizei nicht wegen Brandstiftung, sondern wegen Mordes! In dem verschlafenen Küstenort versucht jemand, ein dunkles Geheimnis zu verbergen, und auf einmal befinden sich sowohl Maria als auch August in der Schusslinie.

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?

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?

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.

Sur un télésiège de la station suédoise d’Åre, dans les montagnes du Jämtland, on découvre un corps gelé. Dans la neige, une écharpe en laine... Hanna Ahlander, récemment virée de la police de Stockholm (et accessoirement larguée par son petit ami), mène l’enquête avec l’inspecteur Daniel Lindskog. Entre la rebelle hantée par ses échecs et le jeune père débordé par son boulot, le courant passe.

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.

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.