Swedish Mysteries

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and...no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only 18, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her late 80s, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. It's a solitary existence, and she likes it that way.

An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.

A British journalist is invited to Malmö to interview an old university friend who is now one of Sweden's leading film directors. When he discovers the director's glamorous film-star wife dead in her apartment, the Skåne County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case.

Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed to follow her....

Han tror att hans hemlighet är säker. Men hon vet sanningen... Min man är läkare. Han är smart och charmig, och alla litar på honom. Alla utom jag. Vid första anblicken kan det verka som om jag har allt: det perfekta äktenskapet, den perfekta mannen, det perfekta livet. Men det är långt ifrån sanningen. Drew Devlin är inte den ansevärda person han utger sig för. Anledningen till att vi flyttade till det här vackra, gamla huset med utsikt över havet, var att vi behövde en nystart, lämna vårt förflutna bakom oss.

Djupt inne i den afrikanska öknen upptäcker Dirk Pitt och hans sällskap att den topphemliga riskfallsanläggningen läcker en livsfarlig, kemisk substans. Det försåtliga giftet sprids i Nigers vatten och orsakar sjukdom och död bland människorna längs flodens stränder. Nu hotar giftet att släcka allt liv i världshaven – en global miljökatastrof som kan komma att innebära slutet för mänskligheten. En samvetslös fransk industrimagnat och en västafrikansk general står bakom projektet. Farliga, korrumperade män, beredda att göra allt för att hindra att världen får veta vad som pågår.

USA år 2000. Den skrupelfrie kinesiske affärsmannen Qin Shang handlar med människoliv. Han har tjänat en fabulös förmögenhet genom att smuggla in kineser i USA. Den stora illegala invandringen är ett växande bekymmer för landet och den amerikanske presidenten ger immigrationsmyndigheterna i samarbete med Dirk Pitts NUMA i uppdrag att sätta stopp för Shang. I jakten på den hänsynslöse smugglaren upptäcker Dirk Pitt att Qin Shang låtit bygga en jättelik hamnanläggning vid Mississippifloden mitt ute i vildmarken i Louisiana. Varför har han valt ett så otillgängligt ställe?

Colorado, USA – Januari 1954. Ett militärt transportflygplan lyfter från flygbasen i Buckley med en last så hemlig att inte ens besättningen vet vad de fraktar. Kort efter starten tvingas planet nödlanda och är sedan spårlöst försvunnet... Colorado, USA – September 1988. Under en weekend i Klippiga bergen hittar Dirk Pitt, bärgningschef vid Nationella undervattens- och marinbyrån, delar av ett flygplan i en fritidsstuga. Av ren nyfikenhet försöker han ta reda på hur de hamnat där, något som visar sig överraskande svårt.

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.

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.

Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend, Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman.

Det är i mitten av november och i gotländska Mullvalds är planeringen av årets tryffelfestival i full gång. Med hjälp av guider och lagottohundar kommer deltagarna få leta tryffel i naturen och sedan avnjuta den exklusiva delikatessen i sex olika rätter under en helkväll på socknens restaurang. Anki Karlsson har bjudit med sig sina tre väninnor från fastlandet - Lena, Gunilla och Ingegerd - och tillsammans ska de njuta några härliga dagar med ridning, god mat och inte minst varandras sällskap.

It’s 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets…or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a cryptic message. Who is he? And who is this “Dark Angel” he speaks of? When a detective shows up, Mika senses something even more sinister is going on.

Det er juli månad, år 2003. Under sin jungfruresa tar lyxkryssninsfartyget "Emerald Dolphin" eld och sjunker efter vad som tros vara sabotage. Nära två tusen passagerares liv räddas tack vare att NUMA:s forskningsfartyg, med Dirk Pitt ombord, finns i närheten. Det är även Pitt som får uppdraget att undersöka varför lyxkryssaren sjönk. Efterforskningarna leder honom till Cerberus Corporation – ett hänsynslöst företag som använder sig av terrorism för att få makt över USA:s oljemarknad.

Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a familiar person's face. It causes stress. Acute anxiety. It can make you question what you think you know. When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, the horror of having come so close to a murderer—and not knowing if they’d be back—overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality.

Local girls' soccer coach Sven-Gunnar Erlandsson is practically a saint in the community, known for his good works and volunteering. So when his body is found in Stockholm's beautiful Herräng forest, shot at close range in the back of the neck while walking home from a late-night poker game, the police struggle to find a motive. Nothing has been taken from his pockets except his cell phone, and the only other clues left behind are a cryptic handwritten note and a handful of playing cards.

Förtidspensionären Anne-Maj Mortensen är på rehabilitering på ett lyxigt spahotell efter en knäoperation. Vilan blir dock inte långvarig - kort efter incheckning hittar Anne-Maj en död kvinna på hotellet och det är tydligt att det handlar om ett mord. Försedd med ett lager smärtstillande medicin sätter Anne-Maj i gång med sin egen förundersökning, vilket inte direkt behagar lokalpolisen. Kort därefter sker ännu ett dödsfall och Anne-Maj blir alltmer insyltad i fallets utredning.

After stealing some priceless Russian jewels from the Stockholm Auction House, Martha and her gang flee to the small village of Hemmavid to lie low. But what they find is a village in crisis, so they decide they want to help revive the place. But to do so, the village needs money. In steps the League of Pensioners to arrange events to attract paying tourists. Which all turns out to be a rather delicate – and dramatic – balancing act when you are wanted by the police.

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.