Scandinavian Crime

It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die.... The sixth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s best-selling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. There’s a face at the window. A stranger wearing a mask stands in the shadow of a garden. He’s watching his first victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make it last - play him a nursery rhyme - make him pay.

Pourquoi Merete Lyyngaard croupit-elle dans une cage depuis des années ? Pour quelle raison ses bourreaux s'acharnent-ils sur la jeune femme ? Cinq ans auparavant, la soudaine disparition de celle qui incarnait l'avenir politique du Danemark avait fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Mais, faute d'indices, la police avait classé l'affaire. Jusqu'à l'intervention des improbables Carl Mørck et Hafez el Assad du Département V, un flic sur la touche et son assistant d'origine syrienne.

Ellas son jóvenes, guapas y viven de las subvenciones estatales. Su único sueño es convertirse en las estrellas de un famoso reality show. Pero lo que no se pueden imaginar es que son el blanco de una persona desequilibrada cuyo objetivo es eliminarlas de una en una. Al inigualable trío de investigadores del Departamento Q, compuesto por el cínico inspector Carl Mørck y sus fieles Assad y Rose, se une Gordon, que será decisivo en esta investigación.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson. A young woman, an asylum seeker from Russia, is found murdered on the seaweed-covered rocks of the Vatnsleysuströnd in Iceland. Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police is called to investigate this - the final case in her career before she is forced into retirement. When Hulda starts to ask questions, it isn't long before she realises that no-one can be trusted and that no-one is telling the whole truth.

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, one of his old friends asks him to pay an unofficial visit to a couple of blackmailers. He readily agrees, only to arrive to find one of the pair lying in a pool of blood. When the victim dies in hospital, Sigurdur Oli is faced with investigating a murder without revealing his own reasons for being present at the murder scene.

At first, the plan seems foolproof. Every contingency is covered, and the payoff will make them all rich for life. No one would even get hurt. But not everyone is who they seem. Even as the gang's stolen helicopter is lifting off from the cash depot with $6.5 million inside, questions remain unanswered. What secrets does each man hold?

He calls himself Ulf—as good a name as any, he thinks—and the only thing he’s looking for is a place where he won’t be found by Oslo’s most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman’s fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed—which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in Kåsund, on Norway’s far northeastern border, he sees a “flat, monotonous, bleak landscape . . . the perfect hiding place. Hopefully.”

Vor den Toren Stockholms wird an einem Sportplatz die Leiche eines brutal ermordeten Mannes entdeckt. Kurz darauf werden Frau und Tochter ebenso bestialisch getötet aufgefunden. Offenbar wollte der Täter die ganze Familie auslöschen. Doch der Sohn überlebt schwer verletzt. Als Kriminalkommissar Joona Linna erfährt, dass es ein weiteres Familienmitglied gibt, eine Schwester, wird ihm klar, dass er sie vor dem Mörder finden muss. Er setzt sich mit dem Arzt und Hypnotiseur Erik Maria Bark in Verbindung. Er will, dass Bark den kaum ansprechbaren Jungen unter Hypnose verhört. Bark hatte sich jedoch wegen eines traumatischen Erlebnisses geschworen, niemals mehr zu hypnotisieren. Aber es geht hier um ein Menschenleben. Es gelingt ihm schließlich, den Jungen zum Sprechen zu bringen. Was er dabei erfährt, lässt ihm das Herz gefrieren...

Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage nighttime attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles in, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher, he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles.

Old crimes, new consequences. In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as 'the shadow district'. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. A 90-year-old man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrad, a former detective now bored with retirement, finds newspaper cuttings in the dead man's home reporting the shadow district murder....

Varias desapariciones ocurridas en los años ochenta ponen de nuevo en marcha a Carl Mørck. Su investigación lo conduce hasta Nete Hermansen, una mujer que ha hecho todo lo posible por ocultar su trágico pasado hasta que este le vuelve a dar alcance. Mientras Carl se enfrenta a las sombras de su propia existencia, y a los secretos de sus colaboradores Assad y Rose, deberá indagar en la historia del líder de un partido político de extrema derecha que defiende una siniestra ideología racista.

When a young woman is found dead, the police are quick to respond. But what they find at the scene is unexpected. The body is posed, the scene laboriously set. And there is almost no forensic evidence to be found. Detective Mia Krüger has been signed off work pending psychological assessment. But her boss has less regard for the rules than he should. Desperate to get Mia back in the office, Holger Munch offers her an unofficial deal.

¿Puede un terrible hecho del pasado seguir teniendo consecuencias devastadoras? Cuando una botella que contiene un mensaje escrito con sangre humana llega al Departamento Q, el subcomisario Carl Mørck y sus asistentes Assad y Rose logran descifrar algunas palabras de lo que fue la última señal de vida de dos chicos desaparecidos en los años noventa. Pero ¿por qué su familia nunca denunció su desaparición? Carl Mørck intuye que no se trata de un caso aislado y que el criminal podría seguir actuando con total impunidad.

Emelie is a young lawyer who's just started her own firm. Teddy is a reformed criminal looking for a fresh start. The first time they teamed up, in Stockholm Delete, they uncovered the secrets of a Swedish sex ring. Though their partnership proved rewarding - both professionally and personally - they haven't seen each other since. But when a vulnerable young client of Emelie's is murdered before she can testify against her abusers, Emelie turns to her ex-partner/lover for help.

Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in a shepherd’s cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother; and her young son, Knut. But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon to insanity.

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned 40, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to solve a murder off-duty; witness the beginnings of his fragile relationship with Mona, the woman he has his heart set on marrying.

El comisario Christian Habersaat lleva diecisiete años intentando en vano esclarecer la muerte de una joven que apareció colgando cabeza abajo de un árbol. Desesperado, le pide ayuda a Carl Mørck, que, malhumorado como siempre, no le hace demasiado caso. Poco después, Habersaat muere en extrañas circunstancias y, al cabo de unos días, fallece también su hijo.

In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Bäckström is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Bäckström is a man who has no sense of duty or responsibility, thinks everyone with the exception of himself is an imbecile and is only really capable of warm feelings towards his pet goldfish and the nearest bottle of liquor.

Two young women are missing in Oslo. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline, the hunt is on to find a murderer with singular compulsions. Catching this criminal calls for a detective with a singular mind: Harry Hole. But Harry is gone: fired from the police force and down and out in Los Angeles. It seems like nothing can entice him back home—until someone close to him comes under threat. Now the clock is ticking, for Harry's friend and for the missing woman.

A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Delving into the dead man's life Detective Erlendur discovers that 40 years ago he was accused of an appalling crime, but never convicted. Had his past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur struggles to build a relationship with his unhappy daughter, his investigation takes him to Iceland's Genetic Research Centre, where he uncovers disturbing secrets that are even darker than the murder of an old man.