Dr. B.

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden, based on his grandfather’s life.

In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. A fascinating portrayal of the astonishing connections and often mysterious players illuminated by his grandfather’s remarkable wartime life.

Stockholm South: Siege by Karl Eidem and Jale Poljarevius

The first book in an intense thriller series featuring Inspector Hannah Kaufman.

On her way to work one ordinary Wednesday morning, Inspector Hannah Kaufman is unexpectedly called to Stockholm South Hospital, where she’s confronted by a far from ordinary event. Armed men have invaded the children’s hospital and are threatening to kill one child an hour if their demands aren’t met.

Hannah and her colleagues face a dramatic hostage situation with enormous media attention. Meanwhile, inside the hospital walls, the clock is ticking for the innocent children imprisoned with the terrorists…

For fans of Ian Rankin, James Patterson and the popular Netflix show Money Heist.

Karl Eidem is an author and financial analyst. Jale Poljarevius is a police superintendent and expert in organised crime. He is also known for his appearances on Efterlyst, the Swedish TV equivalent of Crimewatch.

It Came to Me on a Whim – The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess

A compelling tale that will grip true-crime fans as Maria Bouroncle reveals the story behind a long-kept family secret.

In the cold spring of 1929, Artur Andersson leaves his wife and three children alone for a few hours to go and fetch firewood in the forest. When he returns, the children lie dead in the bathtub. The story of Ingeborg Andersson and what happened that day was a tightly guarded family secret for 70 years. Drawing on Ingeborg’s own letters and other archive material, Maria Bouroncle recreates the tragic tale of her great-aunt and her treatment by the criminal justice and mental healthcare systems of the day.

Sweet Revenge

Two gripping novellas from bestselling author Camilla Läckberg

Two gripping novellas from the No.1 international bestselling author

Women Without Mercy

Ingrid gave up her career to support her husband. Now he’s having an affair.
Birgitta is avoiding the doctor. No one can see the bruises her husband leaves.
Victoria left Russia to marry a man she met online. But he is nothing like she imagined.
Maybe the only way out is to commit three perfect murders…

Truth or Dare

Best friends Liv, Martina, Max and Anton are spending New Year’s Eve together.
But each of them is keeping a terrible secret.
When a game of truth or dare takes a dark turn, the shocking truth emerges.
Not everyone will live to see the chime of midnight…

Home for Easter by Annika Devert and Jessika Devert

The second in a light-hearted series by Annika Devert and Jessika Devert, continuing the adventures of Emelie as she discovers love and friendship on a small Swedish island.

On the island of Sardinön, Easter is fast approaching but Emelie still has some difficult questions on her mind. Should she take the job at the community centre? If her new partner Andreas has a child with a lesbian couple, and he moves in with Emelie – then she’ll have a baby in the house. Does she want that? And her finances are a constant worry, but it seems that the vase she’s been left by Aunt Astrid is worth a bit of money and perhaps that will improve her situation. But when the vase disappears, Emelie is dismayed and doesn’t know what to think. Could her neighbour Birgitta have stolen it? Or Kjell the restaurant owner?

Instead of thinking about the future, Emilie plans an Easter party for the islanders, with a talent show and a festive buffet. On Easter Saturday they take a walk to the lighthouse on the cliff, where an unexpected surprise awaits her…

Home for Easter is the cosy successor to the Devert sisters’ popular Christmas romance Home for Christmas. Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Poppy Dolan and Cathy Bramley.

A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding

Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.

Winner of the 2019 Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize
Winner of the 2019 Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize
Shortlisted for the 2020 Tidningen Vi Literature Prize 

In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensues.

Over two decades later, Sebastian is recruited to join a mysterious organisation, the London Institute of Cognitive Science, where he meets Laura Kadinsky, a patient whose inability to see the world in three dimensions is not the only thing about her that intrigues him. Meanwhile, Clara has travelled to Easter Island to join a doomsday cult, and the third triplet, Matilda, is in Sweden, trying to escape from the colour blue.

Then something happens that forces the triplets to reunite. Their mother calls with worrying news: their father has gone missing and she has something to tell them, a twenty-five-year secret that will change all their lives …

You Are Next

Sam Berger’s life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and his partner, Secret Service agent, Molly Blom, is in a coma.

A detective under arrest. A killer running freeA dark and gripping thriller set in the Stockholm Archipelago, from an international bestseller and Scandicrime star.

Detective Inspector Sam Berger’s life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and his partner, Secret Service agent, Molly Blom, is in a coma.

Meanwhile, a terrorist attempt is threatening Stockholm and a wanted murderer is on the loose. Berger escapes to the Stockholm Archipelago while he waits for orders from the Swedish Security Service’s chief executive.

But is he the solution or is he part of the problem?

The Pearl Whisperer

Fantasy adventure novel for young adults. First in The Song of the Eye Stone series.

The Pearl Whisperer is the first book in the four-part series Song of the Eye Stone.

Read more here at Dedalus books.

Mushrooms

Swedish Instagram sensation Martin Nordin returns with a new cookbook, this time exploring that most versatile of ingredients – the mushroom.

Swedish Instagram sensation Martin Nordin returns with a new cookbook, this time exploring that most versatile of ingredients – the mushroom.

The Resting Place

Crimson Peak meets The Sanatorium in The Resting Place, a heart-thumping, unforgettable novel of horror and suspense by international sensation Camilla Sten.

Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face. It causes stress. Acute anxiety.

It can make you question what you think you know.

When Eleanor walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the killer—a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, the horror of having come so close to a murderer—and not knowing if they’d be back—overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality.

Then a lawyer calls. Vivianne has left her a house—a looming estate tucked away in the Swedish woods. The place her grandfather died, suddenly. A place that has housed a chilling past for over fifty years.

Eleanor. Her steadfast boyfriend, Sebastian. Her reckless aunt, Veronika. The lawyer. All will go to this house of secrets, looking for answers. But as they get closer to uncovering the truth, they’ll wish they had never come to disturb what rests there.

Dark Music

The first instalment in a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes: a murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy.

Trapped

Detective Mina Dabiri teams up with celebrity mentalist Vincent Walder to stop a serial killer who will stop at nothing to get the duo’s attention.

Codename Faust

‘What does Sara Nowak know?’ This is the last question priest Jürgen Stiller is asked before he is executed by ex-terrorist Faust. Then the killer begins the hunt for Sara Nowak. Gustaf Skördeman’s highly-anticipated sequel to Geiger.

‘What does Sara Nowak know?’

This is the last question priest Jürgen Stiller is asked before he is executed by ex-terrorist Faust. Then the killer begins the hunt for Sara Nowak.

Sara is fully occupied by the ongoing chaos in her personal life and she has no idea that she is being targeted until she is fired upon in her own home. The trail leads back to West Germany and a string of small, radical cells of terrorist fanatics. What was Operation Wahasha? Who is hiding behind the codename Faust? Sara Nowak has little to go on and meantime Faust is getting ever closer…

The Bird Master

Fantasy adventure novel for young adults. Second in The Song of the Eye Stone series.

The second book in the four-part series Song of the Eye Stone.

Read more here at Dedalus Books.

The Other Sister

Former FBI agent John Adderley returns in Mohlin & Nyström’s second thriller.

The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed Scandi-noir thriller The Bucket List. Alicia Bjelke has always been the “other sister,” the foil to her beautiful sister Stella―people turn their backs when they see Alicia’s disfigured face. So she created a life in the background, becoming a coding genius and founding a groundbreaking dating app company. With Stella as the face of the company, Alicia has found success. Until one day, when Stella is found dead and Alicia’s life takes the wrong turn. Soon, she realizes that she is the next target. The case is given to former FBI agent John Adderley, who is still in Karlstad under a new identity. He is haunted by shadows of his past and is about to leave Sweden when the game plan changes. Instead of running, he is forced to once and for all face his past, and the murder investigation gives him a way out. If he can go through with his plan, he might have a shot at the freedom he has so long wanted to have. But is it too late? In a successful mix of high-octane suspense and psychological depth, authors Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström deliver a thrilling sequel in the John Adderley series. The Other Sister is an ambitious crime thriller that is tight, layered, and gripping from start to finish.

Son of Svea: A Tale of the People’s Home

“This is the story of a twentieth-century Swede. A man without cracks but with a great split running through him, and in this he entirely resembled the society he populated and shaped.”

“Lena Andersson’s epic novel moves through a century of Scandinavian idealism like a winter storm. Son of Svea opens with the founding of social democracy, roars on through the rise of the welfare state and the murder of Olof Palme, and reaches an icy end in the ex-utopian Stockholm suburbs. Lena Andersson has an unparalleled eye for how ideology and family life interweave, turning the myths of modernism into something warmer and more intimate. Andersson’s novel is a powerful ode to the humble people who gave Scandinavia the one thing America misses most of all: upward mobility that is more than just a dream.” —Mikkel Rosengaard, author of The Invention of Ana

“Intellectual, agile, sharp, occasionally uncomfortable, always uncompromising, Son of Svea is a novel about modern Sweden from our most important voice, Lena Andersson. Her crystal-clear prose shapes Son of Svea into an absolute gem of a book.” —David Lagercrantz, #1 bestselling author of The Girl in the Spider’s Web

Marzipan and the Mystery of Thoughts

A humorous children’s guide to mindfulness and battling anxious thoughts.

Marzipan and the Mystery of Thoughts is perfect for grown-ups to read to children who want to be free of anxious thoughts.

Knock Knock

The #1 international-bestselling thriller that tells the electrifying story of a police inspector and a former criminal informant in a race against time as they attempt to unravel past and present secrets.

In Roslund’s heart-pounding fourth Grens and Hoffman novel (after 2019’s Three Hours with the late Börge Hellström), a break-in at the Stockholm apartment where every member of the Lilaj family, except five-year-old Zana, was killed 17 years earlier prompts Det. Supt. Ewert Grens to reexamine the case. Grens discovers that Zana’s witness protection file has disappeared from a secure police archive just as several criminals are murdered in the same manner as her family. Meanwhile, Piet Hoffman is contacted anonymously by a person who knows all about Hoffman’s time infiltrating Stockholm’s criminal underworld for the police. If Hoffman doesn’t start a gang war and thereby kick start demand for this new player in the weapons smuggling business, he and his family will be killed. Grens and Hoffman combine forces, as Grens senses they’re working two ends of the same problem. While the peril that Hoffman faces is palpable, Grens’s impending retirement and loss of purpose presents its own existential threat. This terrific mash-up of police procedural and crime thriller has strongly imagined characters, explosive action, and a twisty plot with an unexpected conclusion. It’s a must for Scandinavian noir fans.
–Publishers Weekly, starred review

Cry Wolf

The first book in a new series by Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the TV series The Bridge as well as Netflix’s Emmy Award–winning Marcella.

Rosenfeldt, creator of the TV series The Bridge, debuts with a fast-moving procedural set in Sweden’s remote north. The city of Haparanda has seen international trafficking, both legal and illicit, throughout its long history. When dead wolves are found with human remains in their bellies outside the city, policewoman Hannah Wester and her chief and lover, Gordon Niska, investigate. Hannah and Gordon soon have to look into a spiraling series of vicious drug-related crimes that may be related to atrocities committed by Katja, a sadistic hit woman sent by a Russian gang lord to retrieve 30 million kronor worth of drugs. Tormented by menopausal hot flashes, her own dark past, and a failing marriage, Hannah struggles through her anger at being female, as well as at Sweden’s swelling gang problem and its failing socialist policies. Rosenfeldt’s abrupt cinematic cuts and vivid bursts of violence keep the pages turning, despite the somewhat predictable plot. Haparanda, strikingly described in human terms (“she grew so fast she creaked”), is a character unto itself. This standalone is ready-made for TV.

– Publishers Weekly

The Deathwatch Beetle

A young woman disappears from an island community. Retired detective inspector Ann Lindell wants to know why.

Cecilia, a young Swedish woman, has disappeared from the Baltic island where she grew up. An old friend claims to have seen her in a park in Lisbon. Tangled relationships in a small island community emerge when retired detective inspector Ann Lindell hears about this, and decides to investigate.

The Herd: How Sweden chose its own path through the worst pandemic in 100 years

A real-life thriller about a nation in crisis, and the controversial decisions its leaders made during the COVID-19 pandemic.

First, the government instituted no restrictions. Then, it didn’t order the wearing of face masks. While the rest of the world looked on with incredulity, condemnation, admiration, and even envy, a small country in Northern Europe stood alone. As COVID-19 spread across the globe rapidly, the world shut down. But Sweden remained open.

The Swedish COVID-19 strategy was alternately lauded and held up as a cautionary tale by international governments and journalists alike — with all eyes on what has been dubbed ‘The Swedish Experiment’. But what made Sweden take such a different path?

In The Herd, journalist Johan Anderberg narrates the improbable story of a small nation that took a startlingly different approach to fighting the virus, guiding the reader through the history of epidemiology and the ticking-clock decisions that pandemic decision-makers were faced with on a daily basis.

‘In his fine book The Herd, the Swedish journalist Johan Anderberg has chronicled the development of the Swedish policy and how tough it was for its architect, Anders Tegnell, to stay the course as country after country was stampeded into compulsory and comprehensive lockdowns.’
MATT RIDLEY, THE TELEGRAPH

‘A gripping analysis of the Swedish response, which examines how tensions between science, policy and politics heightened as the virus held on. If any book were capable of turning scientific debate into a thriller, this one does so; and for the armchair experts on COVID-19 that many of us have become, it is a must-read.’
FRIEDA KLOTZ, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

The Antarctica of Love

The story of a young woman’s brief life, her brutal murder, and the world that moves on without her.

A devastating novel about absolute vulnerability, brutality and isolation, by Sara Stridsberg.

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023 and the National Translation Award in Prose 2023.