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Maria Wern has been struck by tragedy. Her husband, Björn, is paralyzed from the neck down, and she now cares for him at home. When a body is found in the waters below Högklint, she is forced to hand over more responsibility to the personal assistants. Though she trusts them, something about...

In Tingstäde, a Viking-era assembly site on Gotland, a group of people has gathered to await the end of the world. Since the mid-1700s, the knowledge of the final days has been passed down in the Runö family. An astronomical clock from the time of Christoffer Polhem and a handwritten letter...

Twenty-year-old Agnes has been subjected to abuse for a long time. She confides in a midwife who has started a secret Facebook group called Ullsaxen. Agnes tells her story, and at last she finds understanding. Meanwhile, suspected but acquitted rapists and sex offenders begin falling victim to...

Close to the water. He goes there often, each time with a new woman by his side. Are they there willingly? Maria Wern is busy with a disappearance. Cecilia, who suffers from a heart condition, has been missing for several days without her medication-finding her is a race against time...

he late-summer warmth lingers on Gotland. Maria Wern is at a party with her new neighbors in Åminne when an explosive fire breaks out in a nearby house. The incident is linked to a series of burglaries in the summer cottage area. The following morning, Tomas Hartman's daughter, Sofi, vanishes...

Detective Inspector Jesper Ek has fallen head over heels in love. But his new love, Julia, is a mystery. What is it she doesn't want to tell? When her past catches up with her, the trap closes around Ek, leaving him in a terrible predicament where he can't even turn to his colleagues for help...

The annual Medieval Festival is going on in Visby. A secret theater company has taken the St. Clement Church Ruins as their private stage at night. In its center, there is a double tomb from the 12th century where a young woman and an elderly man were buried. They were brutally murdered...

The old wooden door to the prison tower Kajsarn in Visby is slightly open. The boy takes the girls hand in the dark when the moist, cold air hits them as a breath from death and the door closes behind them. No one would be able to hear their call for help. They stumble not to fall down in the...

An aging school photographer is brutally assaulted in his home on northern Gotland. Someone has tried to set fire to his archive. He is found dead four days later. Tomas Hartman's mother is beaten and left in the woods to die. She vaguely remembers that someone was filming her. When Maria Wern...

The 90-year-old Heinz Meyer is found shot in Ronehamn. Who would want to murder a 90-year-old? And why? Heinz Meyer was one of the German soldiers who came to Gotland after World War II, wounded in battles near the Baltics. At the same time, 500 concentration camp prisoners arrived on the...

In The Eternal Flame of Alchemy Detective Inspector Maria Wern struggles with a murderer who turns out to follow the principles of alchemy. The hunt of the fanatic perpetrator goes from an old artist community on Gotland to Kosta Art Hotel on the mainland. The aged glass artist Justus Hartman...

Bisher konnte Kommissar Bark noch jeden kniffligen Cold-Case-Fall lösen, doch diesmal ist es ein Rennen gegen die Zeit, ein tödliches! 1945: Zwei junge Männer steigen in eine Grube in Bergslagen, in der sie Silber vermuten – nur einer von ihnen wird je wieder das Tageslicht erblicken. Wieso musste Vilho sterben? Hat Tom seinen Freund erschlagen? 2021: Als Kristoffer Bark auf dem Weg zu einem Tatort bei den alten Silbergruben ist, erreicht ihn ein Notruf: Ein Mann ist in die Kita seiner Urenkel eingedrungen und bedroht Kinder und Erziehende mit einem Gewehr!

Vor Jahren wurde die Leiche einer Frau in einem von Nägeln durchbohrten Fass gefunden. Und nun hat der Mörder ein neues Ziel... Der zweite Fall für Kommissar Kristoffer Bark! Sechs Monate nach der dramatischen Suche nach seiner Tochter ist bei Kristoffer Bark eines unverändert: Er blättert immer noch in den staubigen Akten ungelöster Cold Cases. Gerade befasst er sich mit dem Fall Emelie Kartmann, die vor Jahren grausam ermordet wurde. Das Opfer hatte zuvor angegeben, gestalkt zu werden.

Ein tiefer See, eine verschwundene Tochter und ein hartnäckiger Ermittler, der niemals aufgibt: der erste Fall für Kristoffer Bark! Jedes Jahr am Karfreitag schreitet der Polizeiermittler Kristoffer Bark am Ufer des Hjälmarensees entlang. Er sucht nach seiner Tochter - vergeblich. Denn vor fünf Jahren verschwand Vera am Abend ihrer Junggesellinnenfeier spurlos, nachdem sie auf den See hinausgerudert war. Ihre Leiche wurde nie gefunden.

Januar 1967: Ein lebloser Frauenkörper treibt im eiskalten Fluss Svartån, ganz in der Nähe des Schlosses von Örebro. Der Name der Toten ist Mary Billbro, sie lebte in der Nervenheilanstalt von Västra Mark. Die Todesursache bleibt unbekannt. Mehr als 50 Jahre später ist Marys Enkelin Eva auf den Spuren ihrer Familiengeschichte. Sie möchte unbedingt herausfinden, was ihrer Großmutter damals zugestoßen ist. Doch dann bekommt sie selbst Morddrohungen. Für Kristoffer Bark, Schwedens Experten für Cold Cases, ist klar: Das ist ein Fall für ihn!

'With a few simple strokes on the keyboard, he could see the little people in their everyday lives over satellite. These superstitious and hardly intelligent creatures still believed in pure luck. It gave him a feeling of power when he could observe them. When weather was good he could even see...

In einer Höhle im schwedischen Naturschutzgebiet Skärmarboda wird das Skelett eines neunjährigen Mädchens gefunden. Kriminalinspektor Kristoffer Bark und sein Team von der Polizei Örebro verfolgen die Spur bis zu einer Familie, die vor 50 Jahren Kinder in Pflege genommen hat. Nach einem bis heute ungeklärten Brand galt das Mädchen als verschollen. Der Hinweis auf die Tote kam von Magdalena Fernåker, einem selbsternannten Medium, die jedoch spurlos verschwindet, bevor Bark sie befragen kann.

When a woman is found murdered at a rest area in Kronviken, Detective Inspector Maria Wern becomes involved in the investigation. The woman's body is severely burned, her clothes are in shreds and the blue synthetic cap has melted over her face. Who is she? And is there a connection with the...

Strange things happen at Katthamra manor. Admiral Hägg is on watch duty at four in the morning regardless of whether he's alive or dead. In the forest with the twisted trees it's easy to get lost because clocks stop running and compasses no longer work. This could be due to the gnome Bysen or...

All The Tranquil Dead is the second book in the hit series about Detective Inspector Maria Wern. A man has been reported missing. Rosmarie Haag, his wife, seeks out Detective Inspector Maria Wern. What initially appears to be a routine matter develops with frightening speed into one of the...