Clementine Luijten Books

HE'LL STEAL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP The fourth gripping serial killer thriller in the No.1 bestselling Joona Linna series. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo.

The No 1 Swedish thriller by the author of The Hypnotist and The Nightmare

Tsatsiki woont samen met zijn moeder die nogal anders is dan andere moeders, in Zweden, terwijl zijn echte vader in Griekenland woont. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar

Het zijn de jaren twintig van de twintigste eeuw. De jonge onderwijzeres Hilma Strömberg wordt verliefd op de twaalf jaar oudere leraar Sigfrid Tornvall. Halsoverkop trouwen ze, maar het huwelijksleven van het kersverse paar ontspoort al in de eerste nacht. Hilma’s leven is voorgoed getekend. Eén dochter wordt er geboren, Signe. Haar vader verwent haar mateloos. Des te meer reden voor Hilma om haar dochter angstvallig in de gaten te houden. Deel 1 van de Signe-trilogie

Sammuta valot ja sulje verhot, vainooja on ikkunasi takana Poliisille lähetetään linkki Youtube-videoon, jolla esiintyy salaa kuvattu nainen. Seuraavana päivänä aviomies löytää hänet raa'asti murhattuna. Sitten saapuu toinen video. Tapausta ryhtyy tutkimaan kuolleeksi uskotun Joona Linnan tilalle tullut komisario Margot Silverman. Hän on varma, että aviomies on tehnyt rikospaikalla jotakin. Paha sokkitila estää kuitenkin miehen puhuttamisen, ja apuun kutsutaan hypnotisoija. Erik Maria Bark. Se, mitä transsiin vaivutettu mies paljastaa, saa kuitenkin Erikin mielenrauhan järkkymään. Kaiken takana saattaa olla hänen uransa pahin virhe. Virhe jonka tunnustaminen maksaa hänelle kaiken.

The second Swedish-set crime thriller from the fantastic Jens Lapidus, following Stockholm Delete

Stockholm, Sweden. On a summer's evening a young woman's body is discovered aboard an abandoned boat. The likely cause of death is drowning, but her clothes are completely dry. A man is found hung in his apartment. His death looks like suicide, although there is nothing to climb on to reach the ceiling. On the surface the deaths seem unconnected but Detective Inspector Joona Linna suspects something more sinister.

It began by spray-painting a door. Then detonating a hand grenade. Each task is secretly filmed and uploaded for other 'Players' to comment on. The more daring the mission, the greater the thrill and reward - and the acclaim. But how far will loser Henrik 'HP' Pettersson go before the seemingly innocent game he was invited to play on a 'lost' mobile phone begins to play him? With his police protection officer sister dragged into the action, and the game looking more and more like a trap, HP's excitement is turning to fear.

Having come thus far in his deliberations, Van Veeteren gave in to temptation and lit a cigarette. It was time to address the big question, and that would no doubt need a bit of extra effort. Why? Why in hell's name should anybody march up to somebody's door, ring the bell and shoot whoever opened it?A young woman shivers in the December cold as her mother's body is laid to rest in a cemetery. The only thing that warms her is the thought of the revenge she will soon take... Then a middle-aged man is killed at his home, shot twice in the chest and twice below the belt. He had recently received a series of bizarre phone calls where an old song is played down the line - evoking an eerie sense of both familiarity and unease. Before the police can find the culprit, a second man is killed in the same way. Chief Inspector Van Veeteren and his team must dig far back into each man's past - but with few clues at each crime scene, can they find the killer before anyone else dies?

A new case for Chief Inspector Van Veeteren - the complicated history of a nearly perfect murder. On a sunny August day a man is released from prison. On a rainy April day children at play find his corpse. The fact that the dead man is Leopold Verhaven only becomes clear after some time because the mutilated corpse is without its head, legs and feet. Who would be interested in killing this man, a double murderer who spent 24 years in prison? Determined to let no case go unsolved, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren reopens the case. What he discovers is that Verhaven was a star sprinter before he went to prison for allegedly killing two of his lovers. However, he never confessed to the murders and spent a lifetime proclaiming his innocence. Was he killed because someone thought he had not been punished enough? Or was someone afraid of Verhaven's revenge? A terrible suspicion stalks Van Veeteren: had Verhaven been telling the truth? Was he really innocent?

In 1904, Hanna Renstrom boards a ship bound for Australia hoping to escape the cold and poverty that have dominated her life in Sweden. Her harrowing journey lands her in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white colonists rule, where she becomes a peculiar outsider: she is on the outskirts of white society, because of her gender and profession as the owner of a bordello, and separated from the African prostitutes with whom she lives due to her skin color. As her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the brothel, Hanna moves inexorably toward the moment when one decision will defy all the expectations society has of her and, most important, those she has of herself. Henning Mankell imbues this deeply moving story with all of the gripping drama, vividly drawn characters, and evocative details of place that fans of his acclaimed Kurt Wallander crime novels have come to love.

Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His early life is isolated and difficult, overshadowed by the disappearance of his mother. When he loses both his best friend, and then his girlfriend in tragic circumstances, his only remaining desire is t

Op een zaterdagochtend vindt Janek Mattias Mitter zijn vrouw Eva dood in bad. Ze is verdronken. Aan commissaris Van Veeteren verklaart Mitter dat hij zich niets van de voorafgaande nacht kan herinneren. Behalve dat hij en zijn vrouw veel hebben gedronken en de liefde hebben bedreven. Mitter blijft verdachte nummer één, wordt schuldig bevonden en opgesloten. Korte tijd later is er een twee dode te betreuren...

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet, the only woman he has ever loved, the woman he abandoned in order to go and study in America forty years earlier. She has sought him out in the hope that he will honour a promise made many years ago. Now in the late stages of a terminal illness, she wants to visit a small lake in northern Sweden, a place Welin's father took him once as a boy. He upholds his pledge and drives her to this beautiful pool hidden deep in the forest. On the journey through the desolate snow-covered landscape, Welin reflects on his impoverished childhood and the woman he later left behind. However, once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last. Italian Shoes is as compelling as it is disturbing. Through his anti-hero Welin, Mankell tackles ageing and death with sensitivity and acuity, and as with the critically acclaimed Depths, delivers a moving tour-de-force on the frailty of mankind.

In this superbly gritty thriller, Emilie Jansson, a new partner at a prestigious law firm, and Teddy, an ex-con trying to stay on the right side of the law, become involved with a burglary-turned-murder, but they are soon entangled in a snarly web with deep connections to Stockholm's criminal world, where history is never a thing of the past, and always ready to threaten those who lived it.

Exploring the male psyche, this novel offers a tense and compelling narrative that transcends typical crime fiction. Mankell weaves a powerful and moving story, leading readers through a tragic journey that highlights the complexities of human emotions and experiences.

Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape the horrors of human trafficking. Leila has come with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home. Meanwhile, celebrated poet Jesper Humlin is looking for inspiration. Harried by his mother and girlfriend, misunderstood by his publisher and tormented by his stock broker, Jesper needs a new perspective on life. A chance encounter with Tea-Bag leads him into the shadow world of the immigrant experience in Sweden. Initially he sees the girls purely as material for his work, but they have very different ideas. In The Shadow Girls, Henning Mankell tells the extraordinary stories of three young women who are determined to overcome the hardships they face to take control of their own lives. This inspiring novel encompasses both humour and tragedy and illuminates the experiences of those left on the margins of our society

Mankell tells the story of a young African orphan adopted by a Swedish man and whisked away to his new father's country. There the boy, dubbed Daniel, finds himself swallowed by a bizarre landscape of snow and mud. Always in his mind are thoughts of his murdered parents, calling him back to Africa. But Daniel's path is marked by tragedy, and his homecoming seems an impossible dream.