Crime fiction

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Två gånger är en vana

Twice is a Habit

Denise Rudberg

Last year Sweden’s queen of chick lit, Denise Rudberg, reinvented herself with a completely new genre – elegant crime. The first novel about Marianne Jidhoff, Ett litet snedsprång / Stepping Out of Line, marked the start of a new phase in her authors ...

Lärjungen

The Disciple

Michael Hjorth

The crime-writing duo Hjorth and Rosenfeldt got off to a flying start with Det fördolda / Dark Secrets, the first book about psychologist and profiler Sebastian Bergman, which was on the hardcoverbestseller list in Sweden for three months. In Lärjung ...

Det fördolda

Dark Secrets

Michael Hjorth

Det fördolda is the first in a series of crime novels featuring psychologist Sebastian Bergman, a criminal profiler, in the main role. This is Hjorth & Rosenfeldt’s first crime novel and marks this year’s most sensational Swedish debut. It begin ...

Ett litet snedsprång

Stepping Out of Line

Denise Rudberg

’Elegant crime’ is Denise Rudberg’s new genre. Crime stories set in an upper-class environment, with fancy dinners, designer dresses and slightly bored housewives in a posh Stockholm suburb. We recognise the setting from her previous books, and it co ...

Lobbyisten

The lobbyist

Thomas Bodström

It is 2014 and three weeks before the national parliamentary elections. The party alliances and their lobbyists make use of the media to throw dirt at each other. The opinion polls show the successes and failures of the various political camps, and ...

Idealisten

The Idealist

Thomas Bodström

Carlos, a young politician with an immigrant background, starts a petition against racism together with a fellow colleague. They are both members of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice, and Gerd is the chairperson. The petition attracts q ...

Den sista vintern

The Last Winter

Åke Edwardson

After 10 novels that have attracted millions of readers over 11 years, Chief Inspector Erik Winter takes on his final case. Åke Edwardson’s timeless champion of truth and justice is a conflicted soul, both devoted to and plagued by the demands of his ...

Rymmaren

The Escapee

Thomas Bodström

Thomas Bodström's first crime novel is a suspenseful political thriller brimming over with intrigue. Rymmaren skilfully and entertainingly interweaves the people and settings with which Bodström is so familiar from his career as an attorney, politici ...

Nästan död man

Nearly Dead Man

Åke Edwardson

Åke Edwardson is back with a new novel about Erik Winter, the next to last out of ten. A story about five men, all of whom are facing death in different ways. And who will be brought together by death.   A gangster’s new car is seriously da ...

Luftslottet som sprängdes

Castles in the Sky

Stieg Larsson

The third and final part in the Millennium series picks up where Flickan som lekte med elden/The Girl Who Played With Fire ended. Lisbeth Salander survives being buried alive, but her troubles are far from over. Powerful forces want to silence her on ...

Vänaste land

Fairest Land

Åke Edwardson

There is a deafening silence in Gothenburg’s northern suburbs. Nobody wants to talk, no matter what may have happened, at least not to outsiders. And Erik Winter is about as much of an outsider as you can get. Midsummer is still a week away, but it i ...

Flickan som lekte med elden

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson

In the follow-up to Män som hatar kvinnor/Men Who Hate Women, it is Lisbeth Salander who is the focus of the story. A series of dramatic events recall Lisbeth’s dark past, and when she is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, she deci ...

Män som hatar kvinnor

Men Who Hate Women

Stieg Larsson

"People always have secrets. It´s only a question of finding them out." Lisbeth Salander The first book in a series of three in the Millennium Series Stieg Larsson’s debut in crime fiction is something unique. He writes with a powerful feeling for ...

Gå på vatten

Walking on Water

Christina Wahldén

How much must a politician sacrifice of his or her private life in order to be able to work despite continuous threats? How ill must a person be in order to receive adequate psychiatric care? And how much pain can love actually survive? Sweden’s Min ...

Rum nummer 10

Room Number 10

Åke Edwardson

A woman is found dead in a hotel room in Gothenburg. When Erik Winter arrives at the scene of the murder he realises that he has been there before, in that very same room. And that was also about a woman. A missing woman, a case he never managed to s ...

Till salu

For Sale

Christina Wahldén

Swedish men buy sex. Young Russian women are tricked by pimps. But the police and the local politicians hush things up. When the National Police Board send two officers to the north of Sweden to investigate prostitution, they meet with unexpectedly s ...