En roman hentet fra politiets hverdag - en rå verden fylt av kynisme, intriger og maktkamp. En gråkald kveld i november hopper en amerikansk journalist fra 15. etasje i studenthjemmet i Stockholm hvor han bor. Selvmord, slår politiet fast i rapporten. Mannen var dessuten så hensynsfull at han [...]
En annen tid, et annet liv ble kåret til årets beste kriminalroman av Svenska Deckarakademin!" Leif GW Perssons bøker er både geniale og unike." Håkan Nesser. Det er kaos i Stockholm sentrum. En lovlig demonstrasjon har kommet ut av kontroll, og stein og tåregass fyller luften. Kort sagt, po[...]
Et postran på forsommeren i Stockholm etterfølges av to drap. Det viser seg å være en sammenheng mellom hendelsene. Men når politiets etterforskere etter hvert kommer på sporet av gjerningsmannen, begynner det å bli vanskelig. Visse fremstående personer har nemlig interesse av å hemmeligho[...]
Stockholm, 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others. Jump to 1989: When a Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives on the case find their investigation [...]
Stockholm. 1975. Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage, demanding that the Baader-Meinhof members being held as prisoners in West Germany be released immediately. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others, including the[...]
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A young man falls to his death from a window in a student dorm in Stockholm, his loose shoe striking and killing the little dog being taken for his evening walk by an old man. It seems to be a mundane suicide--at least that's what the police choose to think. But the young man is American, not Swedis[...]
From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction - and one of the best crime writers of our time-a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal[...]
Evert Backstrom is the grand master's most appallingly repulsive character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, and an unbelievable sense of timing. A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Backstrom, who is struggling with strict orders from [...]
In this second installment of Persson's trilogy of police procedurals featuring the "small, fat and primitive" Evert Backstrom, the grand master's most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, an[...]
In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Backstrom is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Backstropm i[...]
In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Backstrom is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Backstrom is[...]
A pocket-sized book filled with doodling, drawing and colouring activities for children on the go. It features simple pictures that invite the children to finish the scene, pattern, person or object to make each page a work of art, while giving a scope for creativity and innovation.[...]
It should have been an open and shut case: two drunks, who have met for a bite to eat and considerably more to drink, fall into an argument about one of the many pointless matters that make up their pathetic shared history. Then one of them ends their evening by savagely beating the other to death. [...]
This book was the winner of the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel 2014. In the middle of an unusually hot summer, a young woman studying at the Swedish Police Academy is brutally murdered. Deeply unwillingly, Police Inspector Evert Backstrom is drafted in to head up the investigation. [...]
Søndag 8. september ca. kl. 21.30 tar en utrykningspatrulje hånd om den overstadig berusede pensjonisten Nils Rune Nilsson i Stockholm. Han har ingen synlige skader, og settes i arresten. Men kl. 23 ligger Nilsson bevisstløs på gulvet med store ansiktsskader. Hvordan har dette skjedd? Og hva kan[...]
Søndag 8. september ca. kl. 21.30 tar en utrykningspatrulje hånd om den overstadig berusede pensjonisten Nils Rune Nilsson i Stockholm. Han har ingen synlige skader, og settes i arresten. Men kl. 23 ligger Nilsson bevisstløs på gulvet med store ansiktsskader. Hvordan har dette skjedd? Og hva kan[...]
Den uforlignelige politimannen Evert Bäckström har fått en drapssak i fanget. Et godt, gammeldags fylledrap, sier alle. Men til tross for at legens strenge krav om å endre livsførsel, truer med å forstyrre Bäckströms usvikelige analytiske evner, oppdager han at skinnet bedrar. Det tilsynelat[...]
Den pensjonerte sjefen for Rikskriminalpolisen, Lars Martin Johansen, var på vei til landstedet sitt, men våkner i stedet opp på sykehuset med grusom hodepine og en lammet arm. Mannen som kan se rundt hjørner er midlertidig satt ut av spill. Men det varer ikke lenge. Gjennom legen sin får han[...]
Den 15. august 2007 bestemmer Rikskriminalens sjef, Lars Martin Johansson, seg for at tiden er inne til å oppklare Palme-mordet. I all hemmelighet innkaller han landets skarpeste etterforskere og oppretter en uformell Palme-gruppe. Sammen begynner de å se på verdens mest omfattende politiutrednin[...]