Showing results for "Scandinavian" in Crime Fiction

Im eisigen Norwegen lauert tödliche Kälte – und ein Mörder in der Dunkelheit. Der packende Kriminalroman vor der düsteren Kulisse Skandinaviens. Im hohen Norden Norwegens verschwinden Forscher von einer arktischen Wetterstation – ohne jede Spur. Kommissar Karl Sortland und sein neuer Partner Mats Samuelsson werden nach Bjørnøya entsandt, um das Mysterium zu lüften. Vor Ort erwarten sie eine verwüstete Forschungsstation, eine Leiche und eine schwer verletzte Stationsleiterin.

**Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award Best Debut of the Year** **Shortlisted for the Crimetime Award 2022** Two couples set out together on a hiking trip that goes terrifyingly wrong in this addictive psychological thriller for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley. Anna, Henrik and Milena's...

The Bucket List starts when undercover FBI Agent John Adderley wakes up in a hospital bed in Baltimore with extensive gunshot wounds. He knows he’s lucky to be alive. And just a few beds away is the man who 24 hours ago pointed a gun to his head. Soon, a high-profile cold-case file is sent to Agent Adderley, now living in Sweden (where he’s not lived since he was a boy) in witness protection, hiding until he can testify against the drug cartel he infiltrated back in the States. Adderley is determined to solve the case, even with a price on his head....

DI Jamie Johansson is trying to find normality in Kurrajakk when she gets the chance to sit in on the Interpol interview linked to her last case. A pattern of mutilation and beheading on the Finnish border has Jamie's full attention, but Interpol seem more interested in the Russian connection. Begrudgingly, they let her follow up, and as usual, Jamie's nose for trouble doesn't steer her wrong.

When a boy leaps to his death from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but nobody knows where the pills are coming from.

Left to her own devices, Detective Sergeant Charlie West struggles with the responsibility of a full-blown murder investigation when a man is pushed off a cliff. Not ready to have her apron strings severed so soon, West finds Munro who reluctantly agrees to shed light on the Ayrshire detectives' most challenging case yet. Once the police have discovered the identity of the dead man, and established his demise was the result of foul play, the race is on to hunt down the murderer.

On the eve of their thirtieth birthday, twins Jasmine and Nicolas Moretti celebrate late into the night. But when Nicolas wakes several hazy hours later, Jasmine is dead—and he is covered in her blood. Panicking, he takes the murder weapon and runs into the cold Stockholm night. For the police, it’s an open-and-shut case. Nicolas is guilty. And given that he remembers so little of what happened that night, even he isn’t convinced of his innocence.

Former cop Emma Tapper and her lawyer boss Angela Köhler are defending shipping boss Anita Spendel, charged with murdering her billionaire husband. Anita insists Martin Spendel is still alive, but his car is soaked in his blood. Emma must clear Anita’s name by finding the missing man—dead or alive… Meanwhile, on a luxury yacht off the coast of Ibiza, Bianca Aguilera is relaxing in the sun when a drone delivers an unexpected parcel. The contents: chilling evidence that someone close to her is dead. Horror quickly turns to realisation.

Summer 1983: four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again. Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to terms with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend's disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time?

An unbearably tense novel of revenge, murder, bereavement and the destructive force of passion. The single-mother families of the isolated community under the shadow of the Pyderhorn, Bergen's greatest mountain, are being terrorised by a teenage gang. But teenage violence is nothing compared to what awaits detective Varg Veum when he gets to know the blue-eyed Wenche Andersen.

With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it something more ominous?

When a woman's body turns up in a lake - a bullet to the back of her head - Violent Crime Unit commander Maria Kallio, freshly back from maternity leave, is fast to get on the case. The victim is ID'd as Annukka Hackman, wife of a prominent publisher and author of an upcoming unauthorized tell-all book on Sasha Smeds, Finland's celebrated racing rally driver. Almost as soon as the inquiry starts, it goes off the rails, as those connected to Annukka - and to Smeds - seem to have more secrets than they have alibis.

After completing a dangerous mission training police officers in war-torn Afghanistan, Detective Maria Kallio returns to Finland as the head of a new special crimes unit. But what awaits her in her home country is her most challenging and unsettling case yet. Three immigrant Muslim girls, all members of the same social club, have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. When the body of a fourth girl is found in the snow, strangled with her own headscarf, the investigation takes on a grim new urgency.

ليزبث سالاندر، المتمردة والثائرة، ضئيلة الحجم لكن قوية الشخصية وذات جرأة لا توصف، ذات التاريخ الحافل والأعداء الشديدي الخطورة، بطلة الثلاثية الشهيرة باسم...

El comisario Christian Habersaat lleva diecisiete años intentando en vano esclarecer la muerte de una joven que apareció colgando cabeza abajo de un árbol. Desesperado, le pide ayuda a Carl Mørck, que, malhumorado como siempre, no le hace demasiado caso. Poco después, Habersaat muere en...

Ellas son jóvenes, guapas y viven de las subvenciones estatales. Su único sueño es convertirse en las estrellas de un famoso reality show. Pero lo que no se pueden imaginar es que son el blanco de una persona desequilibrada cuyo objetivo es eliminarlas de una en una. Al inigualable trío de...

¿Puede un terrible hecho del pasado seguir teniendo consecuencias devastadoras? Cuando una botella que contiene un mensaje escrito con sangre humana llega al Departamento Q, el subcomisario Carl Mørck y sus asistentes Assad y Rose logran descifrar algunas palabras de lo que fue la última...

Im Altenheim "Ömheten" geschehen seltsame Dinge: Ein mysteriöser Einbruch, gefolgt von einem Todesfall wecken den Verdacht des pensionierten Polizisten Tore Lindahl: Ist sein Heimnachbar Viking wirklich auf natürliche Weise gestorben? Wer ist der Fremde, der vor dem Heim herumschleicht? Und warum will das Pflegepersonal all das geheim halten?

Zwei Wanderinnen machen in den Jämtland-Bergen im Norden von Schweden einen makabren Fund: die Hand eines menschlichen Skeletts. Ein Fall für die Reichsmordkommission, der sich auch Sebastian Bergman anschließt. Die Ermittlungen werfen viele Fragen auf. Doch Torkel, Sebastian und die anderen geben nicht auf und kommen allmählich dem Geheimnis auf die Spur.

"Den knuste tanghest" er første, selvstændige bind i Helen Turstens kritikerroste krimiserie om den 40-årige kriminalinspektør Irene Huss. En svensk rigmand falder ud fra altanen i sin luksuslejlighed i Göteborg. Det ligner selvmord, men viser sig at være mord. Irene Huss bliver sat på sagen, og snart er hun på sporet af en udspekuleret morder. Helene Tursten (f. 1954) er uddannet tandlæge og debuterede med "Den knuste Tang-hest" i 1998.