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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and...no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only 18, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her late 80s, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. It's a solitary existence, and she likes it that way. 

Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed to follow her....

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Zwei erdrosselte Frauen, in Plastikfolien verpackt. Fundort: zwei Friedhöfe rund um Göteborg. Dem Team um Kriminalinspektorin Irene Huss ist schnell...

When a little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. Complicating the matter is the fact that detectives can hardly get a word out of him. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found dead, tensions in the small town of Strömstad reach an all-time high.

I Gøteborg er en seriemorder løs. I ly af mørket iagttager han de intetanende kvinder. Han beskytter dem, men hvis de synder, straffer han dem med døden. Ligene dumper han på kirkegårde, kvalt og indsvøbt i plastik, og han efterlader sig ingen spor. Forinden har hvert offer modtaget en blomst og et bibelcitat samt et billede af dem selv.

He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them: as long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death. A woman is found dead in a cemetery, strangled and covered in plastic. Just a few days before her death, the victim had received a flower, an unintelligible note, and a photograph of herself. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues on the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden, have neither clue nor motive to pursue, and when similar murders follow, their search for the killer becomes increasingly desperate.

In this final installment of the internationally best-selling Irene Huss Investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on fire - alive. Even in a culture where ritual killings are common, this brutal assault attracts the attention of both Irene's unit and the Organized Crimes Unit. Anticipating a counterattack, the two units team up to patrol the lavish party of a rival gang, but that doesn't stop another murder from occurring just outside the event hall.

En kold decemberdag forsvinder den ni-årige Amelie sporløst, da hun er på vej hjem fra skole for at hente sit luciakostume. Kriminalinspektør Embla Nyström og hendes team sættes på sagen, og mistanken rettes mod en stille og indadvendt teenager. Men da en politibetjent findes død og en eksplosionsbrand kort tid efter hærger en lade, begynder Embla at tro, at der ligger andre og større kræfter bag. Er der en seriemorder på fri fod, og vil det lykkes politiet at finde Amelie i live?

Første bog i ny kriminalserie af Helene Tursten. Embla Nyström er 28 år, bor i Gøteborg og er kriminalinspektør. Når ikke hun arbejder, har hun fuld fokus på sin boksetræning - en interesse, hun deler med sin morbror Nisse. Hvert efterår holder hun fri og deltager sammen med Nisse i den traditionsrige elgjagt i skovene omkring Dalsland, men årets jagt bliver på ingen måde, som medlemmerne af jagtselskabet havde forestillet sig, for mystiske hændelser præger jagten, og pludselig forsvinder to af jægerne i skoven.

"Den knuste tanghest" er første, selvstændige bind i Helen Turstens kritikerroste krimiserie om den 40-årige kriminalinspektør Irene Huss. En svensk rigmand falder ud fra altanen i sin luksuslejlighed i Göteborg. Det ligner selvmord, men viser sig at være mord. Irene Huss bliver sat på sagen, og snart er hun på sporet af en udspekuleret morder. Helene Tursten (f. 1954) er uddannet tandlæge og debuterede med "Den knuste Tang-hest" i 1998.

Die besten Kriminalgeschichten aus dem hohen Norden. Und Friede soll sein unter den Menschen: Doch wenn die Tage kürzer werden und die Nächte länger, wenn es draußen kälter wird und drinnen wärmer...

Armer reicher Mann: Kjell Bengtsson Ceder, einer der bekanntesten Unternehmer Göteborgs, wird erschossen aufgefunden. Unter Verdacht: Sanna, seine Frau...

Under kriminalinspektør Irene Huss' første tid ved kriminalpolitiet i Göteborg indtræffer en påsat brand, hvor en mand omkommer. Et barn - mandens 12-årige steddatter - figurerer i opklaringen, og Irene slås med spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt et barn koldblodigt kan myrde en voksen. Men sagen forbliver uopklaret. Femten år senere, efteråret 2004, dukker samme personer op i en ny mordsag, idet den nu 27-årige datter Sofies forkullede lig findes i et nedbrændt udhus.

Kriminalinspektør Irene Huss efterforsker mordet på en ung pige, og det fører hende ind i et uhyggeligt kriminelt miljø, hvor skruppelløse bagmænd handler med kvinder. Irene opdager, at trafficking-netværket strækker sig ud over hele Europa, og da hun finder ud af, at en af de mest grusomme alfonser befinder sig i Göteborg, kommer der for alvor skred i sagen. Krimiserien om kriminalinspektør Irene Huss fra Gøteborg består af ti bind. "Manden med det lille ansigt" er syvende bind i serien.

From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nystrom has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts, but she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic welterweight, she is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to attend the annual moose hunt with her family and friends. But when Embla arrives at her uncle's cabin in rural Dalsland, she sees an unfamiliar face has joined the group.

When a new lead breaks in the cold case that has long haunted Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, the truth she's been seeking about her best friend's disappearance may finally be revealed - if it doesn't kill her first.   

En tyst regnvejrsnat i et svensk sommerhusområde lyder der pludselig skud. Da Irene Huss og hendes kolleger møder op, finder de liget af den unge Jacob Schyttelius - søn af den lokale præst. Få timer efter møder der politifolkene endnu et grufuld syn, idet man finder ligene af Jacob Schyttelius' forældre, begge skudt gennem hovedet med et kraftigt jagtgevær.

He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them; as long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death. A woman is found dead in a cemetery, strangled and covered in plastic. Just a few days before her death, the victim had received a flower, an unintelligible note, and a photograph of herself.

It's May, and the snow has hardly melted in Goteborg, Sweden, but things are heating up quickly for Detective Inspector Irene Huss. The staff of the Violent Crimes Unit is stretched thin, with everyone on edge as they race to solve two murders amid the city's ongoing gang violence. Soon Irene and her colleagues are on a hunt that pulls them into the world of anonymous online predators.