Helena Willis
Helena Willis was born 1964. She’s been working as a freelance illustrator since she graduated from Beckmans College of Design in 1991. Helena says that she has the greatest job in the world – “I am playing all days – but I also have to concentrate hard to solve the tasks in time”.
She also makes her own picturebooks. The first book received a silver medal from the Kolla (”Check out”) award in 2006.
Books by Helena Willis
The Christmas Saboteur
Martin Widmark
It’s the evening before Christmas Eve and all of Valleby is gathered in the church for some Christmas activities. But all of a sudden, something terrible happens. Baby Jesus who is supposed to lie in the manger disappears! Who is the scoundrel wantin…
The Music Mystery
Martin Widmark
This evening there will be dancing!All of Valleby has gathered to see the famous dance band Errols who are on tour in town.It should have been a night to remember, but the next day it seems that all the ticket money has been stolen! Who is the culpri…
Radio Valleby
Martin Widmark
Read and listen – one mystery and 13 songs!Welcome to Radio Valleby, Sigge Nilsson’s very own radio programme. This is where everyone in Valleby phones in to request their favourite song and to take part in Sigge’s extremely cryptic quizzes.But today…
The Summer Holiday Book. King for a Day
Martin Widmark
Did you know that every year Valleby draws lots to decide who will be king for a day? The lucky winner gets to decide everything that will happen in the town of Valleby during the entire day. Read this funny new story about the time when the whole of…
Christmas in Valleby: Unexpected Christmas Gifts
Martin Widmark
The Detective Mystery
Martin Widmark
A new detective is in town! When a valuable picture is stolen from Valleby’s museum, star detective Torkel Nööt turns up out of nowhere. He seems to know all about Valleby and his detective skills seem even sharper than Lasse and Maja’s! Soon Torkel…
The Campsite Mystery
Martin Widmark
No camping wihtout a mystery for Lasse and Maja!Catching crayfish – twice as much fun!What is actually going on at the campsite? Things keep mysteriously disappearing. Luckily the well-filled crayfish creel out in the lake is safe and sound! Or is it…
The Hospital Mystery
Martin Widmark
What is happening at Valleby hospital? Patients jewelry is dissapearing without a trace. Is there a thief among the staff?Sara Bernard has broken her leg and comes to Valleby hospital to get plastered. But what is the chief of police doing there? Pat…
The Summer Holiday Book – The Blueberry Game
Martin Widmark
Christmas in Valleby : The Big Powercut
Martin Widmark
Read and solve the Christmas mystery together with children’s favourite heroes Lasse and Maja! Martin Widmark and Helena Willis have created a quirky, atmospheric story with a new and exciting challenge on every page.Whose fault is it that a powercut…
The Love Mystery
Martin Widmark
The sixteenth adventure is here, and it is in Amor’s colours!The immensely popular detectives’ sixteenth case is all about love. Valleby is to hold a love festival – in the name of love, money is to be collected for the poor children of the world. Mu…
The Racecourse Mystery
Martin Widmark
The excitement is unbearable at the racecourse outside Valleby. Does the rookie have any chance against the three star jockeys? But when the experienced horses begin to slow down, the whole thing starts to look distinctly dubious. Lasse and Maja real…
The Movie Mystery
Martin Widmark
The famous film director Omar Rauk is coming to Valleby to make a movie, and he invites the Valleby residents to an audition. Muhammed Karat, Dino Panini and Rune Andersson are competing for the same extra role, but the film team puts them down. Inst…
The Summer Holiday Book. A Day at the Beach
Martin Widmark
Schools out – it’s summertime! Every year when the summer holidays begins, all the people in Valleby gather and celebrate at the beach. This year the police chief has even renovated the bathhouse. Lasse, Maja and Miranda participate in the annual san…
The detective handbook
Martin Widmark
This helpful handbook will for the first time give you the best tricks to start your very own detective agency. Follow Lasse and Maja behind the scenes and learn from the masters how to read a crime scene, interview witnesses, find missing items, wri…
The Silver Mystery
Martin Widmark
There is a lot of excavation work going on outside Valleby church. For two weeks, archaeologist Sofia Winge and her as- sistant have been frantically digging to see if they can find anything valuable in the earth. On the last day of the excavation th…
The Church Mystery
Martin Widmark
It’s time for Lasse and Maja’s fifteenth case. The old priest at the church in Valleby is due to retire, and the bishop has come along to hand over the job to young Fanny Winter. But is someone sabotaging the solemn ceremony in the church? And where…
THE WHODUNNIT DETECTIVE AGENCY: ARTS & CRAFTS
Martin Widmark
Lasse and Maja’s Summer Holiday Book
Martin Widmark
A short story, fun activities and inspiration for your own summer activities all in one book. Everyone in Valleby appears to be crazy about sports now that the crazy Valleby Games is about to take place and the priest, Muhammed and the detective duo…
The Football Mystery
Martin Widmark
It’s time for Lasse and Maja’s fourteenth case. Every year a very important football match is played in Valleby. The team from Valleby are to play the team from Solbacka. The silver shield is glittering in the sunlight, and the crowd cheer as the pla…
To Grandpa, If You Get Hungry
Nicolas Jändel
How does a child handle the loss of a loved one? In this warm portrayal of a child’s feelings when grief strikes and nothing seems as though it will ever be the same again, we join Elliot on his journey through the grieving process and out the other…
The Castle Mystery
Martin Widmark
The popular detectives Lasse and Maja have the sharpest brains in Valleby after 15 years in the detective business. But are they smart enough to solve case 26? What started as a generous chocolate tasting at the castle turns out to include a fantasti…
The Library Mystery
Martin Widmark
Books are disappearing from the library in Valleby. How is that possible, after all the library has had an alarm installed! Lasse and Maja are facing their thirteenth case!
The Pet Shop Mystery
Martin Widmark
It’s time for Lasse and Maja to solve their twelfth case. The animals in the pet shop aren’t very well; they’re getting more and more tired, and now they don’t even want to eat. Could there be something wrong with their food? Valdemar, the owner of t…
Learn the letters with LasseMaja
Martin Widmark
Learn to write with LasseMaja
Martin Widmark
Learn Numbers with LasseMaja
Martin Widmark
Learn to count with LasseMaja
Martin Widmark
The Summer Holiday Book. Where is Sylvester
Martin Widmark
The perfect reading on the beach, in the car or at camp – a great mix of fun activities, crafts, and a brand new case for Lasse and Maja. You will get a great recipe courtesy of Dino and Sarah from the cafe in Valleby, you will learn how to draw the…
The Theatre Book
Martin Widmark
Have you always dreamed of solving crimes together with Lasse and Maja in Valleby? Finally you can hop into the town and solve the mysteries in front of an audience! Gather some friends, some props, and start rehearsing! The four scripts are here an…
The Saffron Mystery
Martin Widmark
Now Christmas itself is in danger! They’ve run out of saffron at Café Bernard & Panini. Lasse and Maja pop along to the supermarket, but it turns out the whole of the new consignment has disappeared! Somebody must have got into the office and stolen…
The Fashion Mystery
Martin Widmark
After 13 years’ experience in the detection business, Lasse and Maja have the sharpest wits in Valleby. But case no. 25 looks as if it will be a tricky one. It starts during the hectic preparations for the Valleby fashion competition. Almost everyone…
The Gold Mystery
Martin Widmark
Now it’s time for Lasse and Maja’s tenth case – perhaps one of their trickiest so far. All the pictures are in colour this time – and with the title in gold, of course! A huge cargo of gold arrives in the harbour at Valleby. Lasse, Maja and the chief…
The School Mystery
Martin Widmark
There are false banknotes all over Valleby. The chief of police appeals to the children in Lasse and Maja’s class to keep their eyes open for notes without a watermark. At the same time it emerges that someone has secretly run off thousands of copies…
The Summer Holiday Book
Martin Widmark
In The Whodunit Detective Agency: The Summer Holiday Book there are lots of fun activity tips that will last all summer long. Test your knowledge about Valleby, where Lasse and Maja live, in an ingenious quiz, concoct secret messages, draw pictures,…
The Prison Mystery
Martin Widmark
Case number 24 is a different mystery in an unusual setting. A theatre play at Valleby prison has just had its premiere when the actors disappear without a trace. Luckily Lasse and Maja are in the audience. The vicar puts on Hamlet at Valleby prison….
The Newspaper Mystery
Martin Widmark
This is the eighth volume in the critically acclaimed mystery series about Lasse and Maja’s detective agency. The stories are all set in and around the small town of Valleby, with a rich gallery of characters to captivate the reader along the excitin…
The Train Mystery
Martin Widmark
On a fast moving train is a sack full of money, carefully watched by the chief inspector. But he can’t resist taking a nap – and somebody pulls the emergency brake. The money is missing! Lasse and Maja suspect that the thief is still on the train.
The Movie Theater Mystery
Martin Widmark
Lasse and Maja run a small detective agency together. Meet them in a series of puzzling mysteries for primary school readers. The stories are set in and around the small town of Valleby, and have a rich gallery of characters to be captivated by on th…
The Fire Bridage Mystery
Martin Widmark
Two Fires have broken out in Va Ile by this last week. And as if that is not enough, things have been stolen at the fires! It is time for Lasse Maja to act! Surruner is a quiet time in Valleby. Lasse and Maja take the opportunity to clean the detecti…
The Mummy Mystery
Martin Widmark
Lasse and Maja run a small detective agency together. Meet them in a series of puzzling mysteries for primary school readers. The stories are set in and around the small town of Valleby, and have a rich gallery of characters to be captivated by on th…
The Bicycle Mystery
Martin Widmark
Who is the rightful winner of Valleby’s bicycle race? It seems that all the contestants are very likely to have cheated. It is another exciting, funny and easy-to-read mystery, like always when Lasse and Maja are around.The first person to cross the…
The Café Mystery
Martin Widmark
Café Marsaan, Valleby’s lovely pastry shop, has been subjected to a number of robberies, always when there was a great deal of money in the cash register. The cashier is in shock, and LasseMaja’s Detective Agency becomes involved in a mysterious case…
The Circus Mystery
Martin Widmark
Lasse and Maja run a small detective agency together. Meet them in a series of puzzling mysteries for primary school readers. The stories are set in and around the small town of Valleby, and have a rich gallery of characters to be captivated by on th…
The Diamond Mystery
Martin Widmark
Someone stole gold-merchant Muhammed Karat’s diamonds. Could it have been the snidely sniggering goldsmith Ture Modig, who really should have owned the whole store? Or maybe Lollo Smith, the newly employed health-freak with a taste for the good thing…
The Hotel Mystery
Martin Widmark
On the day before Christmas Eve, the eminent family Åkerö, take a suite at the main hotel in Valleby. With them, they have their extremely valuable, most-prized possession – a Chinese apple dachshund. The hotel manager promises the family to take met…
The Birthday Mystery
Martin Widmark
After 10 years, 20 clever titles and sales of 2 million books, almost every child in Sweden knows who Lasse and Maja are. But the books about these two detective friends are also exciting, fun and ingenious! “Today my very own little goldsmith…
The Swimprize Mystery
Martin Widmark
Thefts, missing swimming trunks and fire alarms – what on earth is happening during the big Christmas swim?The tree is in place by the indoor pool and Christmas music is blaring out of the speakers. It seems as if the whole of Valleby is crammed into…
The New Friendship Book
Martin Widmark
A cool book for everybody who likes The Whodunit Detective Agency, and who would like a book where friends can fill in information about themselves – everything from where they were born to their fingerprints! You can also find out how much you know…
