Swedish Noir

From the introduction by James Thompson: Finland, the myths and truths. Internationally, it has a reputation as perhaps the best place in the world to live. A great economy. A low crime rate. Good and nearly cost-free health care. The needy are provided for by the state and live in reasonable comfort. Finns: peaceful and quiet people, living in the perfect example of a social democracy functioning as it should. A tourist, or even a person who has lived here for a length of time, might well view Finland as such.

A #1 international bestseller, this atmospheric and breathtaking sequel to the “cerebral, immersive page-turner” (The Washington Post) The Wolf and the Watchman explores the darkness hidden beneath the splendor of 18th-century Stockholm. Stockholm, 1794: A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses...

The International Sensation It begins in a Stockholm city park where the abused body of a young boy is discovered. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the...

Set in the gritty streets and shadowy corners of 18th-century Stockholm, The Wolf and the Watchman is a dark, masterful historical thriller where a chilling murder investigation peels back the twisted layers of a city rife with secrets, corruption, and intrigue. “The Alienist set in...

She was racing towards the gorge. The place the locals knew as ‘Dead Girl's Drop'. DI Meg Dalton is thrown headlong into her latest case when she finds a 10-year-old girl running barefoot through the woods in a blood-soaked nightdress. In the house nearby, the girl's father has been brutally stabbed to death. At first Meg suspects a robbery gone tragically wrong, but something doesn’t add up. Why does the girl have no memory of what happened to her? And why has her behaviour changed so dramatically since her recent heart transplant?

The #1 international-bestselling thriller that tells the electrifying story of a police inspector and a former criminal informant in a race against time as they attempt to unravel past and present secrets. He thought she was safe. Then the past came knocking. Seventeen years ago, Criminal...

Vintern har kommit till Norge och en man hittas nedfryst uppe på det stormiga fjället ovanför Lillehammer. Det visar sig vara Viggo Jensen, traktens egen jetsetare som varit spårlöst försvunnen sedan en tid tillbaka. Omständigheterna tyder först på tragisk olycka men snart blir det...

The final chapter in the electrifying Stockholm Noir Trilogy, which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide: here is the no-holds-barred, rapid-fire tale of a supreme struggle for the legacy of the Swedish underworld, as the power, honor, and respect commanded by...

The author of the “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman) Wolf and the Watchman series presents a new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country’s most infamous murder mysteries. 1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are...

När Frank sent en kväll ska skjutsa hem sin flickvän Veronica efter en krogrunda blir de stoppade av två killar. Killarna tvingar in dem i sin bil, tar dem till en bankomat för att sedan misshandla Frank och köra iväg med Veronica. Polisen lyckas inte identifiera gärningsmännen och det...

Kaj och Torbjörn närmar sig sanningen om rånet, men frågor kvarstår. Kommer de haffa de skyldiga innan de hinner smita? Och vilket är sambandet mellan mordet på Sören och kuppen på banken? Änkan Kristina har torkat tårarna, vilket gått snabbare än förväntat. Frågan är hur...

A disused quarry. A suspicious death. A dark past bubbling to the surface . . . Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby is one of the few female police officers on the remote island nation of Doggerland, situated in the North Sea between the UK and Denmark. Though she returned to her homeland...

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 winding cobblestone streets of ...

”Munnen blev torr som efter en hetsrökt joint. Nu tittade hon åt hans håll. Fan, Drottningen glodde på honom. Hon var en sådan där som ser rakt igenom människor. Hon såg att han var en bluff. Hon såg att han inte hörde hemma här.” Hennes majestät har rätt. Allt är bluff. Donny...

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...

Jakten på en styckmördare under Stockholms broar.Södermalm, maj 2026. En styckad kvinnokropp i svarta plastsäckar hittas flytande i det mörka vattnet under Årstabron. Kroppen är tömd på inälvor och könsdelarna har skurits bort.Mikaela Broman står inför sitt första fall som ansvarig...

A murder mystery set in the heart of Sweden by the author of the Gemini and Flowers novels, The King’s House and Who Dun It? Noah Hunter, a Scottish architect and single father, moves to the small Swedish town of Rättvik with his son, Toby. He has come to work for Hanson Hus, an old-established company that builds timber houses. As they settle into their new lives in Sweden, the town is shocked by the disappearance of a little boy. Has he drowned in the lake or has he been abducted? Then the boy’s body is found in the forest, brutally murdered. A murder enquiry starts but then another ...

Vinjournalisten Ramona Charles är något stort på spåren - ett avslöjande som kommer att skaka om hela Vinsverige i grunden. De rykten som nått henne under de senaste åren har börjat bilda ett mönster: Någonting är rejält ruttet i branschen och det finns personer som tjänar grova...

One family. One mistake. No way back. Tom thought Sweden would be a refuge, long days, quiet forests, and the summer house where his family could slow down and reconnect. But in the stillness of the countryside, his children see something they were never meant to see. What follows shatters Tom’s world. Left alone with grief, rage, and unanswered questions, Tom must decide who he becomes when everything he loved has been taken from him. Justice feels distant. Closure feels impossible. Only revenge offers a shape to the darkness. As he descends into Sweden’s shadowy criminal underworld, ...

Two unlikely allies work to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm in this spellbinding finale to the #1 internationally bestselling historical trilogy that is filled with “plenty of twists to satisfy thrill-starved readers” (The Washington Post)...