Swedish Crime Fiction

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.

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....

As the spring warmth melts the ice, divers search the wreckage at the bottom of the Ångermanland River - but the murdered man they recover was put there much more recently than the historic artefacts they were seeking. Local Detective Eira Sjödin, newly pregnant and not talking about it, is proud to be put in charge of the investigation - until she discovers the man's identity, and the evidence begins to point towards her own family.

The Department of Sensitive Crimes is downsizing in light of a recent downturn of sensitive crime, and staff members are wondering who among them will be transferred elsewhere. As the bickering between colleagues intensifies, Ulf tries his best to stay above the fray. But when Anna, a long-time friend and co-worker, appears to blame him for an old case that went sideways, it seems she may be putting her own job prospects above their friendship. In the midst of all this, Ulf embarks on an important inquiry.

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.

For psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön, life is good. She and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren, have just returned from a dream holiday in Greenland, and the symptoms of her early onset dementia seem to be under control. Then they are asked to go to the small, sleepy industrial town of Ormberg to investigate a cold case: 10 years earlier a five-year-old girl's remains were found in a cairn near the town. With her dementia creeping back again, Hanne starts to keep a diary noting down everything she is likely to forget.

She: a very hot 30-something Swedish woman. He: a native of Berlin, on vacation in rural Sweden, seeking solace for his broken heart. They meet. He finds her irresistible. But before their relationship can get off the ground, she vanishes mysteriously, having apparently been abducted. So Martin sets out to rescue Liv from her captors, with the aid of two Swedish detectives in a race against time - and across Sweden. In so doing, Martin and his intrepid detective duo put their very lives on the line.

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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.

Den unga Lisa-Marie hittas under mystiska omständigheter död på sin bröllopsnatt. Mona Schiller, en före detta domare som flyttat hem till Vargön efter många år utomlands, dras in i polisutredningen. När hon börjar nysta i fallet växer en helt ny bild av Lisa-Marie fram, och Mona inser att det lilla samhället döljer hemligheter som är större än hon någonsin kunnat ana. Brudslöjan är den första delen i Vargönserien där vi får möta storslagen natur, gåtfulla mysterier och udda karaktärer i trakterna kring det gamla brukssamhället Vargön.

Dogge is from affluent Rönnviken in Stockholm. Billy lives in the concrete towers of Våringe, a few hundred yards across a highway but a world apart. They met as six-year-olds at Rönnviken’s playground and have been unlikely best friends ever since. From the outside, Dogge looks privileged: he lives in a large home and there is plenty of money—at first. But his parents are addicts whose negligence becomes a form of abuse. Meanwhile, Billy’s family are poor first-generation immigrants unable to escape the no-go zone where they live. But their cramped apartment is nonetheless a bastion of love.

I Stockholm beslutar sig plötsligt Per Dunker för att ställa sig bredvid. Bredvid allt; sitt liv, sina vänner, sig själv och samhället. Snart sker en serie underliga kvinnoöverfall i Lund. Gärningsmannen agerar likt en skugga och polisen har inga spår. En kriminalroman om människors drömmar och brustna illusioner. K (Karl) Arne Blom föddes den 22 januari 1946 och uppväxt i Nässjö i Småland. Han är en svensk författare, översättare och ledamot i Skånska Deckarsällskapet och Svenska Deckarakademin.

At 59 years old, Valdemar Roos is tired of life. Working a job he hates, with a wife he barely talks to and two step-daughters he doesn't get on with, he doesn't have a lot to look forward to. Then, one day, a winning lottery ticket gives him an opportunity to start afresh. Without telling a soul, he quits his job and buys a hut in the remote Swedish countryside. Every day he travels down to this man-made oasis, returning each evening to his unsuspecting wife. Life couldn't be better, until a young woman arrives in paradise.

En femtonårig pojke hittas mördad på en skolgård i Lund, mitt i sommarlovet. Gärningsmannen hittas snart, det är en kamrat till offret och han erkänner genast, men anledningen till brottet vill han inte avslöja. Poliskommissarie Sara Vallén måste nu lista ut vad som föregick scenariot där en femtonåring skaffat ett vapen, siktat det mot sin vän och tryckt av. De andra två vännerna i den tajta kompisgruppen vägrar också att säga något.

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.

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.

Ibland händer det riktigt mystiska saker i Stockholms skärgård - fråga bara Tonya. När hon är ute på segeltur med lillebror Stefan och mammas pojkvän PeO så dyker det upp en ö från tomma intet. På den lilla ön står det två män och plötsligt drar den ena upp en pistol och skjuter den andre! Har Tonya och Stefan precis blivit vittnen till ett mord? Innan de hinner förstå vad som hänt så försvinner ön lika snabbt som den dykt upp. Men en ö kan väl inte bara sluta existera? Vad är det egentligen som händer i skärgården?

Summer 1983: four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again. Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to terms with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend's disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time?

Välj inläsare! Jakten på Amos Decker, som är den första delen i Baldaccis serie om Amos Decker, finns även inläst av Reine Brynolfsson. Amos Decker är en före detta NHL-spelare som sadlat om till polis. Fotbollskarriären avslutades abrupt i hans första NFL-match i och med en brutal tackling av en motspelare. Han är fortfarande hemsökt av en bieffekt från hjärnskadan han ådrog sig vid olyckan: diagnosen hypertymesi - han minns allt som händer honom, inklusive saker han skulle föredra att glömma. Idag är Amos Decker en bruten man.

Who have you spoken to about me? What do you know about Operation Wahasha? What have you told Detective Sara Nowak? These are the last words priest Jürgen Stiller hears before he is executed by a former terrorist known only by the codename 'Faust'. Then the killer begins the hunt for Detective Sara Nowak.