Börge Hellström Book order (chronological)

"The Swedes have a lock on hard-hitting crime novels... the latest in a string of superb procedurals written by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times The explosive third novel in the Ewert Grens-Piet Hoffmann trilogy, which began with The New York Times bestseller Three Seconds. Stockholm, Sweden: Seventy-three refugees have been found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbor. Niamey, Niger: Ewert Grens arrives in a city he's never heard of, in search of a man he never thought he would see again. Piet Hoffmann has again got himself in too deep, infiltrating a West African trafficking ring. He thinks he has two weeks to extricate himself, but will learn that his life, and that of countless defenseless people, now hangs on his actions during three desperate hours.

One-time Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run: both from the life prison sentence he escaped, and from the Polish drug mafia he double-crossed. Only Hoffmann's handler, Erik Wilson, knows he now hides in Cali, Colombia, living under a false identity with his wife Zofia and sons Rasmus and Hugo. But life on the run is precarious. And so when Hoffmann, in order to survive, accepts employment as a bodyguard and hit man for the Colombian cocaine mafia, and is simultaneously approached by the US DEA to infiltrate the same cartel, he chooses to say yes to both. Hoffmann has a new, lucrative double life

A convicted murderer dies awaiting execution on Ohio's death row. Six years later, the same man walks into a Stockholm police station. He's defeated death. He's played the unplayable system. And now Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens must discover how.

Een rechercheur van de politie in Stockholm krijgt te maken met een Litouwse prostituee die in een ziekenhuis vijf mensen gijzelt.

In Stockholm probeert commissaris Evert Grens verband te vinden tussen ruim veertig verslaafde Roemeense straatkinderen die zijn gedumpt en een verminkt lijk dat in de kelder van een ziekenhuis is gevonden.

Die Leiche der Frau war schwer verstümmelt. Ihr Gesicht fast nicht mehr zu erkennen. Getötet wurde sie in einem Abwasserkanal unter der Stadt. Bei der Toten handelt es sich um Liz Pedersen, deren Tochter Jannicke vor zwei Jahren spurlos verschwand. Welche Spur verfolgte sie? Kommissar Ewert Grens sucht in den Katakomben von Stockholm den Mörder einer Frau und findet eine Parallelwelt unter der Stadt.

Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.

Two little girls go missing on the same day in Stockholm. Their disappearances are never explained. In time, the investigations are abandoned. A chance discovery puts Detective Ewert Grens back on the trail five years later. His own personal trauma makes him determined to find out what happened to these children who were snatched from a supermarket and a car park and never seen again. His search leads him into the recesses of the dark web and the discovery of a paedophile ring that can only be cracked from the inside. Grens is forced to call upon his retired partner, Piet Hoffman, the best undercover operative he knows, to try to infiltrate the group. They will have only one chance - but are they up to the darkest challenge of their lives?[Bokinfo]

In een kleine stad brengt een vader zijn dochtertje naar de crèche. Een paar uur later blijkt ze het slachtoffer te zijn geworden van een ontsnapte kindermoordenaar. Omdat het politieonderzoek stokt neemt de vader het recht in eigen handen. Hij handelt uit wraak, maar toch vooral om te voorkomen dat de moordenaar opnieuw zal toeslaan. De reacties van het publiek op de daad van de vader krijgen nationale proporties.