The Root of Evil
Håkan Nesser
A friendly vacation with dramatic consequencesOne summer in the early 2000s, a handful of Swedish tourists spend a couple of weeks together in Finistère, Brittany. Two couples and two singletons – in all, six newfound friends. They spend their days s…
The Masters in the Woods
Kerstin Ekman
The forest is a central theme in many of Kerstin Ekman’s novels. There is, for instance, The forest of hours, Dödsklockan [The Death Clock], which is set during moose hunting season, as well as Vargskinnet [The Wolf Skin], which treats the subject of…
The Darkest Day
Håkan Nesser
When family secrets are revealedIt is December in Kymlinge and the Hermansson family gather to celebrate a 105th birthday party – dad Karl-Erik is turning 65, his eldest daughter Ebba, 40. But nothing goes according to plan. On the night before the b…
From Doctor Klimke’s Horizon
Håkan Nesser
In From Doctor Klimke’s Horizon we meet the language teacher who receives a hand written message from a woman who has been dead for thirty years, the author who travels to the city of death and sighs and is drawn into the suicide pact of a pair of lo…
Markings
Dag Hammarskjöld
After Dag Hammarskjöld’s death in September of 1961, a manuscript was found at his residence in New York. It was entitled Markings. In an enclosed letter he called the notes for “a kind of ‘white paper’ concerning my negotiations with myself – and wi…
The Girl with the Cornflowers
Karin Wahlberg
The Shadows and the Rain
Håkan Nesser
Viktor Vinblad was hard to understand. He sang the Psalms back to front and his parents killed each other. At fifteen years of age he was on the way to solving Fermat’s riddle but fell out of the window on the second floor at school. He did not die b…
