Swedish Mysteries

On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in 18th-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues, someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime, also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can't begin to imagine how.

The Department of Sensitive Crimes takes on three extremely strange cases. First, the detectives investigate how and why a local business owner was stabbed...in the back of the knee. Next, a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. And, in the final investigation, Varg must determine whether nocturnal visitations at a local spa have a supernatural element.

Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost 15 years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect.

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.

Journalist Juliet Brown is a ScandiGeek, a person who is enamored of all things Scandinavian. An unexpected opportunity sends Juliet to Sweden to interview an American jazz singer, and she is quickly drawn into the vibrant Stockholm music scene. When one of Juliet's new friends is murdered, she finds herself embroiled in a real-life Swedish mystery. Journalist Magnus Lindblom offers to help Juliet despite his own struggles, which include hiding the truth about Stieg Larsson's missing fourth book. Set in the depths of the cold and dark Swedish winter, amid the weaving cobblestone streets of ...

Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth Salander—the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who died with Blomkvist's phone number in his pocket—a man who does not exist in any official records and whose garbled last words hinted at knowledge that would be dangerous to important people. But Lisbeth has disappeared. She's sold her apartment in Stockholm. She's gone dark. She's told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at long last she's got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights.

A woman’s skeletal remains are excavated on an uninhabited island in Sandhamn’s archipelago, and Thomas Andreasson is called to officially investigate. But his best friend, Nora Linde, can’t help but get involved. On leave after her last case took a dark turn, Nora is tortured by depression, nightmares, and guilt. Her marriage fractured, her pride chipped away, Nora could find redemption in this investigation.

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.

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.

In a Stockholm city park, police discover the hideously abused body of a young boy. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the murder of a nameless immigrant child. But with the discovery of two more mutilated children's corpses, it becomes clear that a serial killer is at large.

Birgitta Björkhammar och hennes väninna Anita är ute och plockar bär i Svartedalen när de hör skott avlossas mellan träden. Det dröjer inte länge innan de hamnar i korselden, och när Anita träffas i låret tvingas Birgitta lämna henne för att söka hjälp. På sin väg genom skogen söker Birgitta skydd i en övergiven stuga, där hon snabbt inser att personerna som rör sig i området inte är okända för henne. De är kopplade till fall hon tidigare har utrett – och skottdramat visar sig ha starkare kopplingar till hennes eget liv än hon först anat.

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....

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?

En pandemi har tagit över världen. Hanne Wilhelmsen, en legend inom polisen, är sedan länge pensionerad. Hon har levt isolerad i åratal. När Norge nu stängs ner vågar hon sig äntligen ut i den folktomma staden igen. Men bara efter mörkrets inbrott.

När kollegan Bengt dör åker Nina Storm till Dalarna för att delta i begravningen. Det är trettio grader kallt och begravningsgästerna håller på att förfrysa när kistan sänks i jorden till den sista vilan. Under natten sker ett kraftigt väderomslag och nästa morgon möts man av en makaber syn. Graven har fyllts med smältvatten och förvandlats till en sjö och längst upp guppar Bengts kista med de frusna blommorna fortfarande kvar på locket. De som får ärva Bengt beter sig alltmer besynnerligt och Nina börjar nysta i hans död.

Sagt om deckarserien Linje 17: ”Rappt och trovärdigt berättat” Expressen Söndag ”Jag vågar redan nu gissa att serien kommer bli en klassiker i svensk deckarlitteratur.” Upsala Nya Tidning En avdankad journalist avrättas brutalt i södra Stockholm. Efter att i flera år ha försörjt sig på swishdonationer verkar de spekulativa skriverierna ha kommit ikapp honom. När polisen Jack Karlberg utreder fallet leder spåren till kriminella gäng. Är mordet en hämndaktion eller behövde offret tystas?

Kouplan har blivit hemlös. Allt han äger finns nu i hans ryggsäck, och han måste hitta en plats som skyddar mot både regn och gränspoliser. Det är tufft, inte det ultimata tillfället att ta ett nytt uppdrag. Å andra sidan behöver han pengarna. I en villa i Bromma bor en kvinna, som misstänker att hennes man, Håkan, är otrogen. Ett rutinuppdrag för en detektiv–men ju mer Kouplan upptäcker, desto mer förstår han att detta handlar om något helt annat. Något värre.

Telefonen ringde. Gunvald Larsson ryckte till sig luren. - Ja. Larsson. - Sambandscentralen här. En radiopatrull i Solna har hittat en hel buss full med döda på Norra Stationsgatan. Ett massmord har skett på linje 47 och Martin Beck och hans kollegor ställs inför ett svårlöst brott utan vittnen. Bland offren finns en ung kriminalassistent med draget tjänstevapen. Var det bara en slump att han befann sig på bussen? Maj Sjöwall och Per Wahlöös boksvit Roman om ett brott har blivit internationella klassiker och stilbildande inom sin genre.