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'A thriller that lingers in the memory' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB 'Dark Nordic noir' THE i 'A global bestseller' SUNDAY TIMES The award-winning, international bestselling Swedish crime debut about a missing girl, and the detective who must return home and confront her darkest secrets in order to find her - for fans of Susie Steiner, Samuel Bjork, and Lisa Jewell. ______________________________________ THE MISSING Nora's daughter Annabelle has disappeared, last seen on her way home from a party. THE LOST Gullspång's inexperienced police are wilting under the national media spotlight - and its residents desperate for answers. THE CLOCK IS TICKING Stockholm DI Charlie Lager must return home to f...
A MISSING CHILD In Karlstad, nine-month-old Beatrice is missing from her pram. Her parents are in shock and the media is in a frenzy. A PERSONAL STRUGGLE DI Charlie Lager is struggling with her own demons when she's called to investigate, forced to push them aside as the case intensifies. A CLOCK RUNNING DOWN As lead after lead goes nowhere, Charlie starts to feel like nobody actually wants the truth to come out about Beatrice as reluctant locals shut down in the face of her questions. And with each passing hour, the chance of finding Beatrice alive becomes less and less likely... ************ Praise for Lina Bengtsdotter: 'A thriller that lingers in the memory' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Atmospheric, evocative...a first-class procedural...an excellent thriller' - CRIME TIME 'Dark Nordic noir' - THE i 'Takes crime fiction to a disturbingly personal, high level' - SHOTS 'Intelligent and arresting' - MORNING STAR 'A brilliant, dense crime novel' - DAGENS NYHETER
DI Charlie Lager returns to investigate a long-buried disappearance in this 'atmospheric', 'evocative' and 'arresting' page-turner of a procedural from the new Swedish queen of crime fiction ************ She must find the truth about Francesca. Before the past catches up with her... AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY Thirty years ago, teenager Paul Bergman was found drowned in Gullspång's lake, and his best friend Francesca vanished from her home. Paul's death was ruled a suicide, and Francesca was never found. A DETECTIVE'S OBSESSION DI Charlie Lager is still haunted by childhood memories of a strange house and the missing girl who once lived there. A DEADLY SECRET Convinced that the original investigati...
She must find Annabelle. Before it's too late. The award-winning, global bestselling Swedish crime debut about a missing girl, and the detective who must return home and confront her darkest secrets in order to find her - for fans of MISSING, PRESUMED by Susie Steiner, I'M TRAVELLING ALONE by Samuel Bjork, and THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell. When a teenage girl goes missing from a small town, the local police start to buckle under the pressure. Enter Charlie Lager, the brilliant but conflicted Detective Inspector sent from Stockholm to solve the mystery of Annabelle's disappearance. Her superiors don't know that Charlie grew up in this very town - and she's determined to keep it that way. But as she gets closer to the truth, cracks begin to form in her own lies. Can Charlie find Annabelle before her darkest secrets are brought to light? FOR THE MISSING, time is running out... If you liked MISSING, PRESUMED by Susie Steiner, I'M TRAVELLING ALONE by Samuel Bjork, and THEN SHE WAS GONE by Lisa Jewell, of THE MISSING by C.L. Taylor, you will love FOR THE MISSING.
Living alone in her Stockholm apartment, a ninety-six-year-old woman reminisces through the pages of a long-kept address book before starting to write down stories from her past, unlocking family secrets in unexpectedly beneficial ways.
Even the darkest journey must come to an end... ____________ 'Haunting, intoxicating' Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me 'Deeply affecting' Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls ____________ Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went missing in a remote part of Northern Sweden. Lelle has spent the intervening summers driving the Silver Road under the midnight sun, frantically searching for his lost daughter, for himself and for redemption. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Meja arrives in town hoping for a fresh start. She is the same age as Lelle's daughter was - a girl on the brink of adulthood. But for Meja, there are dangers to be found in this isolated place. As autumn's darkness slowly creeps in, Lelle and Meja's lives are intertwined in ways, both haunting and tragic, that they could never have imagined. ____________ **WINNER OF THE 2018 SWEDISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' AWARD FOR BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL** **WINNER OF THE 2019 GLASS KEY AWARD**
A chilling and addictive thriller about a dark mystery at the heart of a small town, perfect for readers of Will Dean and Maria Adolfsson. Selected as a The Times best crime books of 2021 ________________________ What secrets are hidden within the walls of a desolate farmhouse in a forgotten corner of Sweden? Early spring has its icy grip on Ödesmark, a small village in northernmost Sweden, abandoned by many of its inhabitants. But Liv Björnlund never left. She lives in a derelict house together with her teenage son, Simon, and her ageing father, Vidar. They make for a peculiar family, and Liv knows that they are cause for gossip among their few remaining neighbours. Just why has Liv stayed by her domineering father's side all these years? And is it true that Vidar is sitting on a small fortune? His questionable business decisions have made him many enemies over the years, and in Ödesmark everyone knows everyone, and no one ever forgets. Now someone wants back what is rightfully theirs. And they will stop at nothing to get it, no matter who stands in their way...
'Never mind Scandi crime fiction, the time has come for Scandi horror.' Metro ***** What if...? A large wolf escapes its captors. A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care. A disillusioned woman is forced to end her self-imposed exile. Stefan Spjut's latest novel explores the ancient notion that our forests may be inhabited by beings we do not understand, creatures neither animal nor human, living in the shadows . . . Thriller, horror fiction, suspense, Trolls is set ten years on from hit novel Stallo, as Susso Myrén's world once again starts to shift around her.
You've got no idea what you're dredging up. You're going to ruin everything. The past is not going to stay buried in this unputdownable crime novel, the first in a series featuring Detective Hanna Duncker. Fans of Ragnar Jonasson and Ann Cleeves will be gripped by this moving and atmospheric crime novel, already a bestseller in Sweden. Hanna Duncker has returned to the remote island she spent her childhood on and to the past that saw her father convicted for murder. In a cruel twist of fate her new boss is the policeman who put him behind bars. On her first day on the job as the new detective, Hanna is called to a crime scene. The fifteen-year-old son of her former best friend has been found dead and Hanna is thrown into a complex investigation set to stir up old ghosts. Not everyone is happy to have the daughter of Lars Duncker back in town. Hanna soon realises that she will have to watch her back as she turns over every stone to find the person responsible...
The hunt for a serial killer takes criminal profiler Emily Roys and true-crime writer Alexis Castells from London to Sweden, and back into the past, to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, in the first instalment an addictive, award-winning new series from the Queen of French Noir ***Winner of Balai de la Découverte and Nouvelle Plume d'Argent Awards*** ***International Number One Bestseller*** 'Dark, oppressive and bloody, but it's also thought-provoking, compelling and very moving' Metro 'Gustawsson's writing is so vivid, it's electrifying. Utterly compelling' Peter James 'A bold and intelligent read' Laura Wilson, Guardian ___________________ Evil remembers... Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated...