The Inspector and Silence
Håkan Nesser
An anonymous woman reports that girls are disappearing from a summer camp in The Pure Life cult outside the little town of Sorbinowo. Is she telling the truth? Who is she? And what is it that is hidden behind the sect leader’s fanaticism? Superintend…
Aniara
Harry Martinson
ANIARA is a book-length, epic, science fiction poem. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential str…
The Way Out
Harry Martinson
In THE WAY OUT, which came the year after FLOWERING NETTLES, Harry Martinson continued his autobiographical story of the parish boy Martin Tomasson and his twofold longing – the longing away from his overly harsh living conditions and the longing for…
The Wolf
Samuel Bjørk
Two eleven-year-old boys are found murdered in a field outside Uddevalla, Sweden. Between them lies a white hare. The case remains unsolved. Eight years later, two boys are found murdered in a similar manner outside Oslo, this time with a dead fox be…
Smile Like an Angel
Katarina Widholm
A deeply moving novel about childhood wounds, resilience, and the search for peace In the late 1960s, Mikael grows up in a home defined by silence and violence. His father drinks more with each passing year, his mother clings to appearances—and when…
A Marian Legend
Niklas Rådström
A young woman is left to die after being subjected to a gang rape by a horde of child soldiers. A museum curator in New York is asked to take over a deceased colleague’s work and becomes increasingly drawn into her life. The 16th-century German artis…
Dead Island
Samuel Bjørk
An eight-year-old boy vanishes without a trace from the island of Hitra, off the coast of central Norway. Three years later, homicide investigator Mia Krüger returns to the island, where she once attempted to take her own life. When a local girl plea…
