The Strangler’s Honeymoon
Håkan Nesser
The police fear that a serial killer is on the loose in Maardam. When the retired Superintendent Van Veeteren reluctantly leaves his cosy secondhand bookshop – to be confronted, as a private investigator, with yet another violent criminal – he uncove…
Engagement
Gun-Britt Sundström
With sales of over 60,000 copies since the relaunch, Engagement is a masterful modern classic that is ever-relevant and ever-fascinating.What is it to be a couple? What responsibilities can one presume, and what can you ask from each other? Time? Sex…
Essays of Nature
Harry Martinson
Blackwater
Kerstin Ekman
On Midsummer’s Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she stumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder–a…
Flowering Nettles
Harry Martinson
FLOWERING NETTLES is commonly regarded as Harry Martinson’s masterpiece of prose and is, still today, an exceptionally upsetting reading experience. The story of the parish boy Martin Tomasson and his fate as a child onon the farms where he is accomm…
The Weeping Girl
Håkan Nesser
Håkan Nesser’s astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, THE WEEPING GIRL.Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . . .A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering hi…
God’s Mercy
Kerstin Ekman
When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is poorly prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated…
The Fly and The Eternity
Håkan Nesser
Maertens is fifty-four years old. He has begun to lose control of his life and gets silent phone calls from an unknown person. The woman he has had a long relationship with has left him. There is a strange change in the skin on his chest. The writing…