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Börge Hellström

    Börge Hellström was one half of the acclaimed crime writing partnership Roslund & Hellström. His literary work was deeply informed by his direct experience and insights gained from founding and working with KRIS (Criminals Return into Society), a rehabilitation organization for young offenders and drug addicts. Hellström's narratives often explored complex societal issues and the moral quandaries faced by individuals navigating difficult circumstances. His unique perspective lent his stories a profound sense of realism and emotional weight.

    Börge Hellström
    Blinder Glanz
    Odjuret
    Cell 8
    Sweet Dreams
    Three Seconds
    3 Minutes
    • Three Hours

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      "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.

      Three Hours2019
      4.2
    • 3 Minutes

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      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

      3 Minutes2016
      4.4
    • Kluis 21 / druk 6

      • 377 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

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

      Kluis 21 / druk 62011
    • Blinder Glanz

      • 379 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      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.

      Blinder Glanz2009
      2.9
    • 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.

      Three Seconds2008
      4.1
    • Flickan under gatan

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Det är vinter och bitande kallt. Ewert Grens har trettiofyra olösta fall på sitt bord. Hans älskade Anni ligger dessutom svårt sjuk. Men när en död kvinna hittas i en kulvert under S:t Görans sjukhus får han lägga allt annat åt sidan.Samtidigt står plötsligt fyrtiotre övergivna barn, som talar ett främmande språk, i polishusets entré.Ewerts kollega Mariana Hermansson dras in i en uppslitande brottsutredning som sträcker sig utanför Sveriges gränser.Två märkliga fall måste lösas. Och till slut tvingas Ewert Grens och hans kollegor ner under Stockholms gator för att söka en mördare. Till en värld där människor lever sina vardagsliv i tunnlarna, en värld de inte visste existerade.

      Flickan under gatan2007
      3.3
    • Sweet Dreams

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      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]

      Sweet Dreams2006
      3.9
    • Cell 8

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      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.

      Cell 82006
      3.8
    • Odjuret

      • 358 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Två barn hittas döda i ett källarförråd. Fyra år senare rymmer deras mördare från en fångtransport. Polisen är övertygad – han kommer att mörda igen. I en svensk småstad lämnar en pappa sin femåriga dotter ovanligt sent på dagis. Bara några timmar senare hittas flickan våldtagen och död. Hur kunde detta hända? När polisen står maktlös tar pappan saken i egna händer. Och plötsligt jagar man inte längre en pedofil utan dras in i ett brottmål som berör hela landet. En pappa som hämnats sin dotters död står inför rätta anklagad för mord. Ute i landet startar reaktionerna, demonstrationer anordnas för att pappan ska släppas fri och medborgargarden agerar domare och bödel. Och frågan ställs på sin spets: Vem måste dö först? Vems

      Odjuret2004
      3.6