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The Culpability of Albin Runge

Håkan Nesser

Barbarotti is back—this time on Gotland! The #1 Swedish Bestseller.”I shouldn’t be alive”, writes academic and bus driver Albin Runge in his diary notes in 2013. So, when someone seems to be threatening to kill him, he is very understanding, and even…

Original title: Den sorgsne busschauffören från Alster

Series: Barbarotti

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 29-07-2020

The Christmas Oratorio

Göran Tunström

In Sunne all, once again, are gathered to perform Bach’s jubilant Christmas Oratorio. From there, the story expands: it spans over three generations, begins in the thirties and ends today. The plot moves between Värmland and its geographical opposite…

Original title: Juloratoriet

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 14-07-2020

The Thief

Göran Tunström

In Sunne in Värmland, fat Ida Pripp meets lazy Fredrik Jonson Lök and is enchanted, seduced and humiliated. Twelve children are born in the meager house on Torvnäs, but this is foremost the story of Johan, the thirteenth child born in the meager hous…

Original title: Tjuven

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 14-07-2020

Famous Men That Have Visited Sunne

Göran Tunström

This is the last novel published during Göran Tunströms lifetime and won the August Prize in 1998. Swedish, as well as international, celebrities appear in the town of Sunne during a week in September in the 60´s, and take part in the story. This is…

Original title: Berömda män som varit i Sunne

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 14-07-2020

Tullia’s World

Kerstin Ekman

Just like many other Roman women, little is known about Tullia, beloved daughter of Cicero and the heroine of legendary author and erstwhile Swedish Academy member Kerstin Ekman’s latest book.Based on her interest in antiquity, Kerstin Ekman gives us…

Original title: Tullias värld

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 15-05-2020

Midsummer Night Dreams

Bengt Ohlsson

It’s 1988. A 20-something friendship group go to Roslagen to celebrate Midsummer. During the night, Jenny and Olof reveal that they are expecting, and the news fill the friends with a strange feeling. Is it already time to grow up? But they have all…

Original title: Midsommarnattsdrömmar

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 24-04-2020

Child’s Play

Bo Svernström

A new crime thriller featuring Carl Edson and Jodie Söderberg by the bestselling author of Victims.Robert Lindström harbours a childhood secret: he killed his best friend Max in a fit of rage when he was eleven years old. Or, did he?Robert was accuse…

Original title: Lekarna

Series: Vindicta

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 14-02-2020

The Afflicted

Karin Wahlberg

Sweden’s answer to Tess Gerritsen returns with an immediate bestseller. 32,000 copies sold within a month, and 42,000 copies sold to date.Karin Wahlberg has gained a critical mass following in Sweden with the success of the Claes Claesson series, as…

Original title: De drabbade

Series: Claes Claesson

Category: Fiction

Pub date: 24-01-2020