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It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd.

It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night.

Julia Malmros is thriving. A former police officer making her way in the world of crime fiction, she’s turning popularity into fame by writing the next book in a world-renowned suspense series. To help her research, Julia connects with Kim Ribbing. More hacker than man, Kim bears a dark past that’s the very antithesis of the promising future she has planned for herself. They share an undeniable spark—yet it’s likely to implode. That’s the least of Julia’s worries. Hounded by publicity, Julia retreats to her cottage in the Stockholm archipelago.

One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their sixyearold daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears - either into thin air or under thin ice - leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realizes that people are not telling him all they know....

Kim Ribbing is a peculiar man—a skilled hacker, but otherwise reticent and fiercely private. Crime writer Julia Malmros never expected more than a working relationship with him, but all that changed the moment they locked eyes. Now there’s something between them just as thrilling as the mysteries they investigate together. And just as dangerous too. Because Kim has secrets. Enemies. A murky past. And it’s all coming to a head in the confines of his basement.

Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night, something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, no flowers, no birds. And every radio plays nothing but the songs of '60s pop icon Peter Himmelstrand. As the holiday-makers try to come to terms with what has happened, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and secret desires.

Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become. A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.

Zehn Menschen wachen in ihren Wohnwagen auf - und nichts ist wie am Abend zuvor. Wo sind sie gelandet? Im Nichts? In der Unendlichkeit? Was sie sehen, ist ein Feld, soweit das Auge reicht. Alles andere ist verschwunden. Das Radio spielt Schlagermusik von Peter Himmelstrand, nichts anderes. Was bloß ist passiert? Sie begeben sich nacheinander auf das Feld hinaus und begegnen dort ihren persönlichen Alpträumen.

Die sechsjährige Maja verschwindet spurlos auf dem gefrorenen Meer. kurz zuvor sah sie etwas auf dem Eis. Für ihre Eltern beginnt ein fürchterlicher Albtraum...

Julia Malmros è una scrittrice molto nota, i suoi gialli vendono centinaia di migliaia di copie e i lettori la amano incondizionatamente. Per una ex poliziotta che ha preso in mano la penna al posto del manganello è già uno splendido risultato. Ma quando le viene offerta l’occasione per fare il grande salto, quello che porta alla fama vera, Julia decide di non farsela scappare: l’editore di Millennium vuole affidarle il nuovo episodio della celebre saga e lei, lusingata, accetta.

Blendend helles Licht und Meeresrauschen, sanftes Gläserklingen: Mittsommer auf einer Schäreninsel. Während Astrids Vater, der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Olof Helander, seine Gäste unterhält, schwankt sie zwischen Scham und Langeweile. Da nähert sich lautlos ein Schatten von der offenen See. Innerhalb von Sekunden wird die ganze Festgesellschaft ausgelöscht. Wie durch ein Wunder überlebt das Mädchen. Aber jetzt ist sie allein. Und in Gefahr.

In Blackeberg, einem Vorort von Stockholm: Nachdem jedoch die Leiche eines kleinen Jungen entdeckt wird, verbreitet sich in Windeseile die Furcht, dass ein Ritualmörder sein Unwesen treibt...

"Das dunkle Echo der Liebe" spielt unmittelbar nach John Ajvide Lindqvists erfolgreichen Debütroman "So finster die Nacht" und erzählt von der außergewöhnlichen Liebe zwischen Karin und Stefan. Karin ist Polizistin und ermittelt in einem ungewöhnlichen Fall: Ein Irrer ermordete in einem Schwimmbad drei Kinder und entführte ein weiteres. Bei den Ermittlungen lernt sie ihren zukünftigen Mann Stefan kennen. Das Paar verbindet eine unglaubliche Lebensgeschichte und sie führen eine glückliche Ehe.

Wenn das Ende erst der Anfang ist ... Kim Ribbig hat den Schockdoktor Martin Rudbeck gekidnappt und hält ihn im Keller seiner Villa fest. Er will verstehen, was es ist, das einen Menschen dazu bringt, unter dem Vorwand der Wissenschaft junge Menschen zu quälen. Derweil recherchiert die Ex-Polizistin Julia Malmros im Milieu der "Wahren Schweden", einer rechtsextremen Partei mit Kontakten in die kriminelle Szene. Und plötzlich steht Julia vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens: Muss sie Kim, der zu einem Teil von ihr geworden ist, verraten?

A Blackeberg, periferia ovest di Stoccolma, il ritrovamento del cadavere completamente dissanguato di un ragazzo segna l’inizio di una lunga scia di morte. Mentre nel quartiere si diffonde la paura, l’introverso dodicenne Oskar conosce Eli, una coetanea che si è appena trasferita nella zona. Ma c’è qualcosa di strano in lei, il viso smunto, i capelli scuri e i grandi occhi. Emana uno strano odore, non ha mai freddo, se salta sembra volare e, soprattutto, esce di casa soltanto la notte.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey...

Every summer Sam spends a few precious months being human, until the cold causes him to shift to a wolf once again. Discover what happens when he meets Grace in this chilling romance.

The son of a schizophrenic, Jared Gordon has lived his entire life with a genetic time bomb coded into his DNA. So when the night terrors and hallucinations arrive in force, it seems undeniable that the same disease responsible for his father’s suicide is to blame.

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Stockholm, August 2002: Nach einer extremen Hitzewelle legt sich ein elektrisches Feld über die Stadt. Lampen können nicht mehr gelöscht, Maschinen nicht mehr ausgeschaltet werden. Die Menschen leiden unter Kopfschmerzen, ein Chaos droht. Doch plötzlich ist alles wieder vorüber. Oder doch nicht?