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Die besten Kriminalgeschichten aus dem hohen Norden. Und Friede soll sein unter den Menschen: Doch wenn die Tage kürzer werden und die Nächte länger, wenn es draußen kälter wird und drinnen wärmer...

Ein Dreiecksverhältnis, das tödlich endet: Agnes und Henny sind alte Schulfreundinnen, die sich seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr gesehen haben. Auf der Beerdigung von Agnes' Mann treffen sie sich wieder. Zögerlich beginnen sie sich erneut anzunähern, schreiben zunächst Briefe, vertrauen einander alte Geheimnisse an. Schritt für Schritt nähern sie sich dabei einem gefährlichen Komplott, detailversessen planen sie einen heimtückischen Mord. Doch eine von beiden spielt falsch.

Wenn Axel Hacke, Håkan Nesser und Wladimir Kaminer weihnachtliche Geschichten schreiben, dann wird es skurril, böse und russisch-schräg...

Endlose Wälder, rot gestrichene Holzhäuser und verschwiegene Fjordlandschaften - dass Dänemark, Schweden und Norwegen auch ganz anderes zu bieten haben, zeigen die erfolgreichen Krimiautoren, die seit einigen Jahren die deutschen Bestsellerlisten stürmen...

A secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation as one of their young members, a girl on the cusp of puberty, is found dead in the forest, brutally raped and strangled. Adopting to remain silent over the incident rather than defend themselves, the members of The Pure Life - led by their intelligent but perturbing messiah figure, Oscar Yellineck - simultaneously anger and mystify Van Veeteren and the other detectives on the case.

Sweden 2012. When Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work after a terrible personal tragedy, his boss asks him to investigate a cold case, hoping to ease him back gently into his police duties. Five years previously a shy electrician, Arnold Morinder, disappeared from the face of the earth, the only clue his blue moped abandoned in a nearby swamp. At the time his partner, Ellen Bjarnebo, claimed that Arnold had probably travelled to Norway never to return. But Ellen is one of Sweden’s most notorious killers.

Cent cinq bougies à souffler ! La sainte famille Hermansson est au complet sous le toit parental à Kymlinge, une petite ville de province en Suède, pour fêter deux anniversaires, celui du père, soixante-cinq ans, et de la fille aînée, Ebba, quarante ans. La bonne humeur forcée des retrouvailles un peu guindées tourne à l'angoisse : deux membres de la famille disparaissent.

Wer war Dorflehrer Kallmann wirklich? Wer war Eugen Kallmann? Warum musste der beliebte Gesamtschullehrer in der beschaulichen schwedischen Kleinstadt sterben? War es wirklich nur ein Unglücksfall, wie die Polizei behauptet? Als sein Nachfolger nach der langen Sommerpause seinen Dienst antritt, findet er im Pult unter Kallmanns Sachen eine Reihe von Tagebüchern, die ihn schon bald daran zweifeln lassen, dass sein Vorgänger tatsächlich eines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist.

Ein Mann und eine Frau. Er sieht sie eines Tages, als der Winter vorbei ist; etwas zögerlich sucht sie ein Kleid in einem Laden aus. Sie gefällt ihm. Sie erwidert seinen Blick. So werden sie - gelenkt von einer unüberwindlichen Choreographie - zu einem Liebespaar. Fahren schließlich gemeinsam zu einem abgelegenen Ferienhaus. Aber warum verschwindet sie immer wieder? Und warum hält er auf einmal ein Messer in der Hand?

At 59 years old, Valdemar Roos is tired of life. Working a job he hates, with a wife he barely talks to and two step-daughters he doesn't get on with, he doesn't have a lot to look forward to. Then, one day, a winning lottery ticket gives him an opportunity to start afresh. Without telling a soul, he quits his job and buys a hut in the remote Swedish countryside. Every day he travels down to this man-made oasis, returning each evening to his unsuspecting wife. Life couldn't be better, until a young woman arrives in paradise.

It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in Uppsala. Different circumstances push the three young couples together, and, over the course of a few years, they become friends. But a summer trip through Eastern Europe changes everything, and, when their time at Uppsala University is over, it also signals the end of something else. Years later, a lecturer at Lund University is found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the woods close to Kymlinge. And chillingly, it is the very same spot where one of the Uppsala students died 35 years before. 

July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti’s doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his quiet Swedish town. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead. So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it’s a game of cat and mouse to stop the killer before he can make good on all of his promises.

An ex-con is brutally murdered with an ax in Kaalbringen. Then the body of a wealthy real estate mogul is found, also the victim of a violent attack. There appears to be a serial killer on the loose, and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police. As details surrounding the grisly murders are collected, Van Veeteren finds little to go on. But then there's another murder, and shortly thereafter one of Van Veeteren's colleagues, a promising female detective, goes missing.

Wo ist Sarah? Seit vierzehn Monaten ist Erik und Winnie Steinbecks vierjährige Tochter verschwunden. Offensichtlich wurde sie entführt. Von einem fremden Mann auf der Straße aufgegriffen, verschleppt. Danach verliert sich die Spur. Kein Erpresserbrief. Kein Hinweis auf mögliche Täter. Um Abstand zu gewinnen, überredet Winnie Erik, nach New York zu ziehen. Doch das Ehepaar entfernt sich immer weiter voneinander.

The Strangler's Honeymoon is the penultimate gripping Scandinavian crime thriller in the Van Veeteren series by Håkan Nesser. Desperately lonely, 16-year-old Monica Kammerle has little idea of what she is getting herself into when she begins an affair with her mother's latest partner, the sophisticated Benjamin Kerran.... Months later, when a woman's strangled body is found, the Maardam police must discover who has committed this terrible crime.

A dark and sinister case from the past comes back to haunt Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the final novel in the Van Veeteren series, The G File by Håkan Nesser. 1987. Verlangan, a former cop turned private detective, is hired by a woman to follow her husband, Jaan 'G' Hennan. A few days later, his client is found dead at the bottom of an empty swimming pool. Maardam police, led by Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, investigate the case.

Una famiglia modello, gli Hermansson. O quasi. Pochi giorni prima di Natale sono riuniti per festeggiare un centocinquesimo compleanno: i sessantacinque anni di Karl-Erik, padre encomiabile e insegnante in pensione, e i quaranta di Ebba, la sua figlia prediletta. È l'occasione per ritrovare proprio tutti, perfino Robert, la "pecora nera" della famiglia: scrittore mancato (il suo romanzo, L'uomo senza un cane, è da dieci anni in attesa di pubblicazione), è assurto agli onori delle cronache per aver partecipato a un reality show di pessimo gusto, creando non poco imbarazzo ai suoi.

It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car. Thinking no one has seen him, he feels he's off the hook. Until he receives a message telling him that the sender knows what he's done, and unless he pays him a ransom, to be left in a bag at a secluded men's room, he'll squeal. The killer does as instructed, but as he sees a young man leave with said bag, he then kills the young man.

In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police force, will face his greatest trial yet as someone close to him is, inexplicably, murdered.

Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight - but is it too late?