The Summer of Kim Novak
Håkan Nesser
One summer in Närke at the beginning of the sixties. “It’s going to be a hard summer”, says 14-year-old Erik’s father. And it is.This is the summer when Kim Novak gives Erik his first glimpse of what life has to offer. But what is actually happening?…
Evil Games
Jan Mårtenson
The good-natured antiques dealer Johan Kristian Homan is drawn into a tangle of power games and corruption dating back to when a Gustav Klimt painting disappeared from Vienna without a trace, during the Nazi plunder. When the only surviving heir to t…
Death By Scissors
Marie Bengts
It is summer 1957 and seamstress Hannah Lönn is on her way to the little town of Eneby in southern Sweden, to help her aunt, who has hurt her leg. At the sewing circle – which purports to bring together all the local woman to sew, but in reality is m…
The Eyes of Eugen Kallmann
Håkan Nesser
The year is 1995. The scene: a secondary school in a town located deep in the vast woodlands of northern Sweden. The main cast of characters is comprised of a number of students, a few teachers, and a student counselor. And the recently deceased Swed…
The Silver Apostles
Jan Mårtenson
Food, wine and a dose of delightful entertainment in Jan Mårtenson’s 44th crime novelWagner’s grandiose music, Charles the Great’s silver Apostle spoons, which came to Sweden as the spoils of war, blackmail and deadly threats are all ingredients in t…
In Deep Water
Ann Rosman
At the height of WWI, on the 5th of June 1916, the British warship HMS Hampshire goes down outside the Orkney Islands. With her she takes the British Minister of War, Lord Kitchener, and almost 700 men. But what else did she take with her? Rumours ar…
The Missing
Caroline Eriksson
On an idyllic late summer evening Greta, Alex and four-year old Smilla take a boat from the holiday cottage they are staying in by mythical Lake Maran and steer toward the small island in its centre. Greta remains behind in the boat whilst the other…
The Living and the Dead in Winsford
Håkan Nesser
One night in November, a woman arrives in Winsford, on Exmoore of southwest England. She settles in with her dog in a remote house on the moor. She doesn’t use her real name, and why she has come to stay remains unclear. She wanders in thorns, fog an…
