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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

When Kirsty Wilson lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by Swedish fellow student Eva Magnusson she can't believe her luck. But Kirsty's delight turns to terror when she finds the beautiful Swedish girl lying dead in their home and their male flatmate accused of her murder. Kirsty refuses to accept that he is guilty and, inspired by family friend Detective Superintendent Lorimer, sets out to clear his name. Meanwhile, Lorimer calls on trusted psychologist Solly Brightman to help unravel the truth behind the enigmatic Eva's life and death.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When Inspector Anita Sundström discovers that a gunman is targeting immigrants in Malmö and that the charismatic head of an advertising agency has been found dead in his shower, she is determined to investigate. Unfortunately she is sidelined by her antagonistic boss, who has given her the task of finding a stolen painting. But when another prominent Malmö businessman is found murdered, Sundström finds herself back in the action and facing new threats.

Ju mer ondska, desto dödligare spel ... När en våldtäktsman hittas knivmördad efter ett brutalt överfall kallas kriminalkommissarie Kim Stone och hennes team in för att lösa fallet. Men när fler mord sker står det snart klart för Kim att det är något väldigt ondskefullt som ligger bakom. När utredningen tar fart inser Kim att hon själv är i fara, att hon har blivit måltavla för en livsfarlig person som håller på med ett förfärligt experiment. I kampen mot en sociopat som verkar känna till alla hennes svagheter, utsätter sig Kim för livsfara med varje steg hon tar.

Fiktion eller verklighet? Hittade han på brotten eller begick han dem? Deckarförfattaren Jerry Grey har under sin pseudonym Henry Cutter hållit läsarna på helspänn i över ett decennium. I tolv böcker har skoningslösa mördare kunnat utföra brutala mord i en snedvriden värld där offren inte har en chans. Men, vid fyrtionio års ålder får Jerrys karriär ett abrupt slut när han diagnostiseras med tidig Alzheimer. I och med att sjukdomen avancerar får Jerry allt svårare att skilja det verkliga livet från de blodiga intriger han skapat i sina böcker.

Sju offer. Tre mördare. En dödlig hemlighet. På en gård långt ute på landsbygden har kvarlevorna av sju oidentifierade kvinnor just hittats. En polis är beredd att riskera allt i jakten på deras mördare. En man som har sett morden är nu på flykt i fruktan för sitt liv. Så börjar kapplöpningen för att hitta vittnet innan mördarna gör det.

När den ensamstående mamman Alison Nolan spänner fast sin sexåriga dotter Hazel i hyrbilen ser hon fram emot semestern och att få tillbringa värdefull tid med sin lilla flicka. Några dagar vid Silent Lake, omgivna av snötäckta berg och natur skrudad i höstens färger är precis vad de behöver. Men några timmar senare är Alison och Hazel som uppslukade av jorden. Den tidigare FBI-agenten Kay Sharp skyndar till platsen. Det enda beviset på att de någonsin varit där är den övergivna hyrbilen med en resväska i baksätet, en påse gummibjörnar i det öppna handskfacket och en teddybjörn på golvet.

When a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmö, Inspector Anita Sundström doesn't want to get entangled in a simple missing persons case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared. But when the mysteries take a sinister turn, Sundström finds herself inextricably involved in both baffling affairs, one of which seems to be connected to a robbery that took place 20 years earlier. As the cases begin to unravel, tragedy awaits the investigating team.