Christian Thydell has been receiving anonymous threats since he began writing his novel The Mermaid. When one message, secreted within a bouquet of flowers, causes him to collapse at the launch party, crime writer Erica Falck is compelled to investigate. Erica's husband detective Patrik Hedstrom, meanwhile, is puzzled by the disappearance of Christian's friend Magnus Kjellner four months previously. When a body is found frozen in the sea near Fjallbacka, he has a murder enquiry on his hands.
The second psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Läckberg. In the fishing community of Fjallbacka, life is remote, peaceful - and for some, tragically short. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now a young boy out playing has confirmed this grim truth. Their remains, discovered with those of a fresh victim, send the town into shock. Local detective Patrik Hedstrom, expecting a baby with his girlfriend Erica, can only imagine what it is like to lose a child. When a second young girl goes missing, Hedstrom's attention focuses on the Hults, a feuding clan of misfits, relgious fanatics and criminals. The suspect list is long but time is short - which of this family's dark secrets will provide the vital clue?
No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's new psychological thriller - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Mats Sverin was Fjallbacka's financial director on a regeneration project worth millions. When he is found murdered, Detective Patrik Hedstrom must find answers. It seems Mats was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew - a man with something to hide... Is it just a coincidence that his high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has returned to the area? What does she know about who Mats really was? However, Nathalie has her own secret. Something has made her and her five-year-old son flee to their remote family home on the 'Ghost Isle'. And that is where she'll stay and shield her son from the evils of the world. But, as the murder investigation draws a blank, the police have to dig deeper - and before long, everyone's lives will be dragged into the light ...
A woman is found dead, apparently the victim of a tragic car crash. It's the first in a spate of seemingly inexplicable accidents in Tanumshede and marks the end of a quiet winter for detective Patrik Hedstrom. A reality TV show is being shot in the town and when a drunken party ends with a particularly unpopular contestant's murder, the cast and crew are obvious suspects. Could there be a killer in their midst? As the country tunes in, the bodies mount up, Patrik faces his toughest investigation yet - container.
City of Light is published here for the first time in English in a translation by Linda Schenck, and is a fitting culmination to her many years of work on the Women and the City series. číst celé
Oorlogskind is het vijfde boek over politieagent Patrik Hedström en Erica Falck. Dit keer draait het verhaal om Erica's moeder: waarom heeft zij al die jaren een oude nazi-medaille bewaard? Met die vraag blijft Erica worstelen. Uiteindelijk besluit ze de gepensioneerde geschiedenisleraar Erik Frankel te bezoeken, een expert op het gebied van onderscheidingen. Maar Frankel gedraagt zich vreemd en geeft ontwijkende antwoorden. Twee maanden later is hij dood, vermoord. Erica is geschokt. Dan leest Erica de dagboeken van haar moeder en wordt onthuld waarom haar moeder nooit een band met haar dochters kon opbouwen en waarom ze veranderde van een lieve, zachtaardige vrouw in de kille, afstandelijke moeder die ze was.
In Leeuwentemmer houdt de winter Fjällbacka in zijn greep. Inspecteur Patrik Hedström en zijn team zijn bezig met een vermissingszaak van een jong meisje, Victoria, die in een stroomversnelling raakt als ze gevonden wordt. Haar verwondingen laten zien dat ze ernstig is verminkt. Patrik vermoedt een verband met andere verdwijningen en hij moet alles op alles zetten om andere meisjes eenzelfde lot te besparen.Tegelijkertijd verdiept Erika zich in een oude zaak, een familietragedie die eindigde met de dood van de echtgenoot. Ze probeert uit te zoeken wat er is gebeurd. Het lijkt erop dat het verleden zijn schaduw op het heden werpt.
Easter, 1974. A family vanishes without a trace from the island of Valö outside of Fjällbacka. The dinner table has been exquisitely set, but everyone except the one year-old daughter Ebba is gone. Are they victims of a crime or have they voluntarily disappeared? Years later Ebba returns to the island and the old summer camp where her father ruled a boarding school with an iron hand. She and her husband Tobias have recently lost their three year-old son, and in an attempt to overcome their grief they have decided to renovate the house and open a B&B. Erica Falck’s interest is piqued - she has researched the tragic and mysterious history of the family, and looks forward to meeting Ebba. But the couple have barely settled in before they are subjected to an attempt of arson. And when they begin to remove the floor boards in the dining room, they find dried blood underneath…
Wat een overgelopen Russische spion in Zweden vertelt en wat een lid van de Zweedse delegatie in Moskou ziet, zijn twee totaal verschillende dingen, die ogenschijnlijk niets met elkaar te maken hebben. Op het leven van geheim agent Carl Hamilton, alias Coq Rouge hebben ze echter een dramatische invloed.
