Scandinavian Fiction

When a new lead breaks in the cold case that has long haunted Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, the truth she's been seeking about her best friend's disappearance may finally be revealed - if it doesn't kill her first.

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet.

On Easter weekend, a guest at a luxury ski lodge in Åre is stabbed to death in her plush suite. She’s Charlotte Wretlind, a property developer who planned to restore a nearby mountain hotel to its long-gone glory days. It was not a random attack. It was an act of pure aggression leveled against a woman with plenty of enemies. As the murder spreads panic among tourists and Åre residents alike, Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog face a shady staff, a dogged press, and multiple suspects.

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.

Flyvemaskinen med den dødbringende pest-organisme er styrtet ned. Man mener, den må liggge på bunden af Stillehave En pestorganisme så gruopvækkende, at Præsident Eisenhower giver ordre til at stoppe alle videre forsøg med den og udslette alle spor af dens eksistens. Men flyvemaskinen er ikke styrtet ned i Stillehavet. En dag finder Dirk Pitt den på bunden af en sø i Colorado. Der mangler nogle af beholderne med den dødbringende pest.

Græskronen er fortsættelsen af den dramatiske historie om Roms storhed og fald i republikkens tid, som blev indledt med Ærens Vej. Ufreden breder sig i republikkens Rom. I disse år omkring århundredskiftet f.Kr. må de stolte senatorer se i øjnene, at staten har vokset sig for stor, og at det i stigende grad bliver umuligt at holde provinserne nede.

In 1643, a manuscript was discovered, clearly written as early as 1300, containing 29 poems, complete or fragmentary. Various linguistic forensic techniques suggest that the poems were shaped even earlier, stretching as far back as AD 850, well within the Viking era. When it comes to the Norse myths, they are the closest thing we have to reading these stories as the Vikings actually told them, around those ancient campfires so long ago.

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?

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.

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.

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 verano llega a su fin y la escritora Erica Falck vuelve al trabajo tras la baja de maternidad. Ahora le toca a su compañero, el comisario Patrik Hedström, tomarse un tiempo libre para ocuparse de la pequeña Maja. Pero el crimen no descansa nunca, ni siquiera en la tranquila ciudad de Fjällbacka, y cuando dos adolescentes descubren el cadáver de Erik Frankel, Patrik compaginará el cuidado de su hija con su interés por el asesinato de este historiador especializado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Harry Hole wird nach Sydney geschickt, um dort den Mord an einer norwegischen Schauspielerin aufzuklären. Doch der Mord bleibt kein Einzelfall. Scheinbar willkürlich werden blonde Frauen auf bestialische Weise erwürgt. Ist der Täter ein hasserfüllter Psychopath? Doch dann passiert ein Mord, der nicht in diese Serie passt. Da setzt Hole alles auf eine Karte. Er lässt seine Freundin Brigitta den Lockvogel spielen. Sie ist jung und sie ist blond.

Du har sikkert hørt om hekse: hvordan de går med spidse hatte og rører rundt i sorte gryder. Men alt det, du hidtil har hørt, kan du godt glemme. Hekse ser nemlig ud som ganske almindelige, søde damer – og så er de ovenikøbet ondskabsfulde og beregnende væsner, der virkelig afskyr børn! Så meget at de vil gøre alt for at dræbe dem, hvis de bare opsnuser så meget som lugten af et barn. Nu planlægger Overheksen at gøre det af med alle Englands børn på én gang. Kan nogen mon stoppe hende?

An ihrem 60. Geburtstag begeht eine Frau Selbstmord. Ihr Tod führt zur Wiederaufnahme eines ungeklärten Falls aus dem Jahr 1988, der Marcus Jacobsen einst mit seinem besten Ermittler Carl Mørck zusammengeführt hat. Bald ist klar: Seit drei Jahrzehnten fallen Menschen einem gerissenen Killer zum Opfer, der tötet, ohne dass ihm ein Mord nachgewiesen werden kann. Er wählt Opfer und Todeszeitpunkt mit Bedacht und Präzision. Bis jetzt konnte niemand ihn stoppen.

Drei Tote – ein Geheimnis. Der Selbstmord eines Häftlings auf Freigang, der Tod einer Museumsangestellten und ein dreieinhalb Jahre zurückliegender Mord an einem Journalisten – diese Fälle können keine Gemeinsamkeit haben. Oder doch? Die ehemalige Polizistin Liv Jensen, die sich gerade als Privatdetektivin in Kopenhagen selbstständig gemacht hat, versucht genau das herauszufinden.

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.

Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, A Fist or a Heart is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets, and isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the author’s generation.

Police detective Hannah Duncker didn’t expect to return to her native Öland. She fled after her father’s murder conviction and returns to make peace with her shame. She has a new job with the local police and a nosy new partner. A 15-year-old’s death catapults her into a murder investigation that resurrects ghosts from her previous life. As she hunts for the truth, she must confront the people she abandoned. Not all are pleased to see her back home, and she soon learns that digging through the past comes with consequences.

'The Quick'. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water, and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. 'The Dead'. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A sickening thud is heard as a man’s body falls from a high platform. 'The Forgotten'. Many years before, a schoolgirl went missing. The world has forgotten her. But Erlendur has not.