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House at the Edge of the World

Åke Edwardson

After ten novels featuring Detective Inspector Erik Winter, Åke Edwardson left him lying at the bottom of a swimming pool in a tourist resort in Spain, Nueva Andalucía. We didn’t know if he was dead or alive. But now we know. Erik Winter survived, bu…

Original title: Hus vid världens ände

Series: Winter

Category: Fiction

Pub date: 19-10-2012

The Butcher from Little Burma

Håkan Nesser

The fifth book about the police Gunnar Barbarotti from the town Kymlinge. It is also the first and only book about Ellen Bjarnebo, known as the Butcheress of Little Burma. For personal reasons inspector Gunnar Barbarotti is unfit for work. He is give…

Original title: Styckerskan från Lilla Burma

Series: Barbarotti

Category: Fiction / Crime & Suspense

Pub date: 14-09-2012

GLITTERING

Göran Tunström

Pétur is born on the slope of an Icelandic volcano. His father, Halldór, takes care of him and fills his childhood with tales which Pétur carries with him in his travels around the world as an adult. It’s about longing, saying farewell to life, but a…

Original title: Skimmer

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 10-09-2012

The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

This is the first book in the beloved LEAGUE OF PENSIONERS series.¿79-year-old Märtha Andersson dreams of escaping her care home and robbing a bank. She has no intention of spending the rest of her days in an armchair and is determined to fund her wa…

Original title: Kaffe med rån

Series: The League of Pensioners

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 01-08-2012

Crystal Clear

Karin Wahlberg

CRYSTAL CLEAR is Karin Wahlberg’s eighth instalment about Detective Inspector Claes Claesson and his wife Veronika Lundborg, Attending Physician at Oskarshamn hospital.

Original title: Glasklart

Series: Claes Claesson

Category: Fiction

Pub date: 10-11-2011

The Forest of Hours

Kerstin Ekman

Ekman’s central character is Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal. The novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he m…

Original title: Rövarna i Skuleskogen

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 01-11-2011

The Cigarette Afterwards

Horace Engdahl

Literary historian and critic, linguist and member of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl continues to study the world around him, investigating our daily struggles, literature and its critique, history and our dreams. In these short textual fragment…

Original title: Cigaretten efteråt

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 18-10-2011

Grand Finale

Kerstin Ekman

From legendary author and former Swedish Academy member Kerstin Ekman comes an instant classic centering on the professional and personal relationship between two women, and the lies they tell to keep up appearances at any cost.In GRAND FINALE the ac…

Original title: Grand final i skojarbranschen

Category: Fiction / General Fiction

Pub date: 07-10-2011