Gunnar Staalesen4.0 September 1977. Mette Misvær, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch, suspicions are raised, but Mette is never found. Almost 25 years later, as the expiration date for the statute of limitations draws near, Mette’s mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig, he uncovers an intricate web of secrets, lies and shocking events that have been methodically concealed. When another brutal incident takes place, a pattern begins to emerge. Chilling, shocking and full of extraordinary twists and turns, "Where Roses Never Die" reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the world’s foremost crime thriller writers.
Kati Hiekkapelto0.0 Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen and the thief is found dead on the banks of the river, Anna is pulled into a murder case. Her investigation leads straight to her own family, to closely guarded secrets concealing a horrendous travesty of justice that threatens them all. As layer after layer of corruption, deceit and guilt are revealed, Anna is caught up in the refugee crisis spreading like wildfire across Europe. How long will it take before everything explodes? Chilling, taut and relevant, The Exiled is an electrifying thriller from one of Finland’s most celebrated crime writers.
Лейф Г. В. Перссон0.0 Persson is Sweden’s most renowned psychological profiler and considered the country’s foremost expert on crime. He has authored a number of police procedurals centered in Stockholm that feature an ensemble cast with characters from the National Criminal Police who come and go in the novels, much like Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad detectives. The Dying Detective centers on Lars Martin Johansson, a living legend, “the man who could see around corners.” Now retired, he has suffered a stroke. His doctor inadvertently engages him in a cold case, the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl. He undertakes an investigation that starts out (à la Josephine Tey) in his hospital bed and then continues at home, much to the dismay of his wife and the delight of his associates. A brilliant police procedural unfolds within which Johansson must confront his mortality: “What sort of life is it if you’re just counting down the days to the end?” Johansson manages to solve the 25-year-old crime within a month despite his fading memory and failing body, even though scores of police officers worked on it for several years.
Agnes Ravatn0.0 TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the return of his wife from her travels, their silent, uneasy encounters develop into a chilling, obsessive relationship, and it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough. Haunting, consuming and powerful, The Bird Tribunal is a taut, exquisitely written psychological thriller that builds to a shocking, dramatic crescendo that will leave you breathless.
Чель Вестё0.0 1938. Hitler's expansionist policies are arousing both anger and admiration, not least in the 'Wednesday Club' in Helsinki. Something of a relaxed gentlemen's club, the group's members are old friends of lawyer Claes Thune. They socialise, discuss politics and drink together, but this year it is apparent that the political unrest in Europe is having an effect on the cohesion of the club.
Thune, who has returned home after several years serving as a diplomat in Moscow and Stockholm, has recently divorced and is at something of a loss; he runs his law practice without any great enthusiasm, and the growing political anxiety and the chaos in his own life feel like two sides of the same coin. Fortunately he has the assistance of his new secretary, Matilda Wiik.
But behind her polished exterior Matilda is tormented by memories of the Finnish Civil War, when at the age of just seventeen she experienced things she has been trying to forget ever since. Then one day her memories catch up with her. When the Wednesday Club gathers for a meeting in Thune's office, she hears a voice she had hoped she would never have to hear again.
She is suddenly plunged back into the past, but this time she is no longer a helpless victim.
