When a young woman is shot dead in his apartment block, disgraced former police officer Leo Junker is one of the first on the scene. Examining the dead body, he notices that the woman is clasping a cheap necklace - a necklace he instantly recognises. Despite being warned off the case, Leo sets out on a rogue investigation to catch the killer, uncovering a series of frightening connections between the murder and his own troubled youth in Salem, and forcing him to confront a long ago incident that changed his life forever.
Leo Junker Series
This series delves into the dark corners of the human psyche, presenting chilling crime stories set against the backdrop of Stockholm. It follows a protagonist grappling with his own past as he unravels complex murder cases. The narrative skillfully weaves between the present and the past, uncovering long-hidden secrets and character motivations. Expect a suspenseful ride filled with twists that explore the boundaries of justice and human malice.




Recommended Reading Order
- 1
- 2
The second instalment in the internationally bestselling Leo Junker series.
- 3
The third instalment in the internationally bestselling Leo Junker series Charles Levin -- Leo Junker's mentor -- is dead, shot in the back of the head in a premeditated attack. Now Leo must find out who killed him and, more importantly, why. Inspired by a string of scandals and murders that rocked Sweden in the 1980s, Nordic Noir superstar Christoffer Carlsson tells his own chilling version of what happened in those dark days.
- 4
The Thin Blue Line
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Detective Leo Junker thought he'd crossed his last line. But he's never learned to say no. So when an escaped criminal he knows all too well hands him a photo of a murdered prostitute, he reopens the cold case as a favour. Everyone's busy and everyone's got better things to do, but is there a darker reason that Angelica Reyes' death has languished unsolved for five years? As Leo's investigation pushes further into the past -- Sweden's, Angelica's, his own -- he'll come face to face with the corruption at the heart of things. Yet the reckoning may come too late -- not only for Angelica Reyes, but for everyone.