Swedish Thrillers

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Art expert Emma Lindhal is anxious when she's asked to appraise the antiques in the infamous manor house of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, on the island of Storholmen, where a young woman was murdered nine years earlier, her killer never found. As she goes about her painstaking work and one shocking discovery yields clues that lead to another, Emma becomes determined to uncover the secrets of the house and its occupants. When the lifeless body of another young woman is found in the icy waters surrounding the island, Detective Karl Rosén arrives to investigate.

Ett kometnedslag i Kanada för nio tusen år sedan. En okänd underjordisk kammare med forntida inskriptioner i en gruva i Colorado. Mineralutvinning ur saltvatten vid en välbevakad anläggning i Antarktis. Ett amerikanskt forskningsfartyg som attackeras av en naziubåt från andra världskriget. Radarparet Dirk Pitt och Al Giordino dyker för NUMA:s räkning i Colorado när de kommer ett urgammalt mysterium på spåren. Deras efterforskningar visar att flera till synes fristående händelser på något sätt hänger samman.

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.

When a woman is stabbed to death while jogging in Malmö's main park, the Criminal Investigation Squad needs to discover who she is before the case can properly get under way. Soon they realize that the victim had flown in from Switzerland, and with links to important people in the city, she wasn't everything she seemed. Meanwhile, enjoying the hot summer away from Malmö, Anita Sundström is on her annual leave and is showing Kevin Ash the sights of Skåne.

Linn Walter och hennes partner Veronica slukades för alltid av havet. Men det var för sex år sedan. I själva verket är de högst levande, till onda svenska mäns stora sorg. Två landsvägsnomader i en husbil. Rättvisa hämnare eller simpla mördare? Det beror på vem du frågar.Deras expertis sprids från mun till mun. Efterfrågan på deras tjänster tycks oändlig. Men det förflutna har en tendens att komma ifatt. En trio udda figurer, förenade av brinnande hat mot Linn, är dem i hälarna.

Danmark. Medicine och kirurgie doktor Gabriel Fuur är de svagas vän, envis intill tjurskallighet och obrydd om sin egen säkerhet. Efter ett bloddrypande nattligt upplopp ställs han emot stadsfogden, som bestämt sig för sin egen version av händelseförloppet. Kommer Gabriel med sitt medicinska vetande, liksom allehanda praktiska metoder, få reda på vad som egentligen hände den där natten?

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.

Johan Boje, som är polisassistent hos Midt- och Vestjyllands polis, bli påkörd och dödad av en smitare utanför sitt hem en sen kväll i mars. Han chef, Axel Borg, är en av de första på brottsplatsen och det går snabbt upp för honom att det rör sig om ett ytterst brutalt dråp. Johan Bojes son på nio år påstår att han såg bilen och att det var en polis som satt bakom ratten. Är det bara pojkens livliga fantasi?

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....

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.

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.

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.

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.