Showing results for "Johana Gustawsson" in Literature & Fiction

As Autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenagers, the son of the island's mayor and that of a powerful businessman, are brutally murdered. Their bodies are left deep in the forest, dressed in white tunics with crowns of candles atop their heads, like offerings to Saint Lucia. Maïa Rehn has fled Paris for Lidingö, where her husband has grown up, trying to come to terms with the death of their only daughter in a car accident...

Le cœur battant, Emma Lindahl cogne à la porte du manoir dressé sur une petite île au large de Stockholm. Emma se rend vite compte que son travail va lui prendre des mois, seule dans ces immenses pièces où elle ne croise jamais personne, car les Gussman ont expressément refusé de la voir et lui imposent des horaires stricts.

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.

Sequel to international best seller Block 46 and next in the award-winning Roy & Castells series. Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some 10 years earlier and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman's body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims.

Québec, 2002. Maxine Grant, inspectrice et mère célibataire dépassée, est appelée sur une scène de crime terrible. Pauline Caron, son ancienne institutrice, est assise sur le perron de sa maison, choquée, pieds nus dans la neige et couverte de sang. À l’intérieur, le cadavre de son mari, lardé de coups de couteau. Pauline, cette femme douce et appréciée de tous, peut-elle être coupable ?

Par l'auteure de Block 46, traduit dans 20 pays. [Sång] : nom fém. En suédois, signifie "chanson". En Suède, une famille est massacrée dans sa luxueuse demeure. Ce terrible fait divers rappelle sur ses terres Aliénor Lindbergh, une jeune autiste Asperger récemment entrée comme analyste à Scotland Yard : ce sont ses parents qui ont été assassinés. Avec son amie Alexis Castells, une écrivaine spécialisée dans les crimes en série, la profileuse Emily Roy rejoint sa protégée à Falkenberg, où l'équipe du commissaire Bergström mène l'enquête.

2002, Quebec. A former schoolteacher is accused of brutally stabbing her husband—a famous university professor—to death. Detective Maxine Grant, who has recently lost her own husband and is parenting a teenager and a new baby single-handedly, takes on the investigation. Under enormous personal pressure, Maxine makes a series of macabre discoveries that link directly to historical cases involving black magic and murder, secret societies and spiritism...and women at breaking point, who will stop at nothing to protect the ones they love.