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Jungfrustenen
The Maidenstone
by Michael Mortimer (pseudonym)
Autumn 2013, 438 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus, Peter Karlssom
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The Maidenstone
In 1769, Carl von Linné’s disciple Daniel Solander makes a remarkable discovery during his
voyage around the world with Captain Cook.
In New Zealand, Solander finds a stone with
extraordinary properties that challenges
his masters view of nature, and it is therefore hidden away. The stone breaks into four
pieces, and during the course of history the
pieces end up in the hands of, among others,
Niels Bohr, Greta Garbo and Joseph Stalin.
More than 200 years later, student Ida Nordlund receives a strange phone call from her
grandmother Alma in Moscow. Alma asks Ida
to look after a box, which she will receive at
the Nobel Award ceremony. But something
goes wrong and the courier bringing the box,
Nobel Prize Laureate Anatoly Lobov, dies
under spectacular circumstances. Soon Ida is
sought not only by the police, but also by a
secret network of scientists who are willing
to do anything to obtain the enigmatic box.
Ida makes an abrupt escape from Stockholm
and seeks help from her foster dad Lasse.
Together they are chased in a thriller-like
tempo through northern Sweden, through
Finland, and finally they end up in Russia,
with Grandma Alma, who is carrying a dark
secret.
What kind of stone did Solander find? What
did Linné hide inside those freshwater pearl
mussels in the north of Finland? And why
was Ida deserted by her mother Eva, who disappeared so many years ago?
Prepare for an adventure out of the ordinary.
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Fossildrottningen
The Escape from Paradise
by Michael Mortimer (pseudonym)
Spring 2014, 509 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus, Peter Karlsson
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The Escape from Paradise
In November 1932, Nadezhda Alliluyeva takes
her own life, broken by the unhappy marriage
with Joseph Stalin. In a fit of grief and rage Stalin takes her gun and farewell letter, along with
a stone he got her as a present, and orders them
to be kept secret until the end of times.
Ida, Alma and Lasse take to Moscow to search
for old Soviet files at a governmental archive
inside the Kremlin, and there they find the
so called “Stalin Stone” – a stone that fit together with the Maidenstone.
After leaving Moscow, Alma, Lasse and Ida
cross the border to Ukraine and enter the
forbidden zone surrounding Pripyat, by the
Chernobyl nuclear plant. This is where Ida’s
mother Eva has been living since disappearing when Ida was a small child; a place she
calls “Paradise”, surrounded by the richest
fauna in all of Europe – where predators and
other animals have flourished in the absence
of man.
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But Eva’s house is deserted, and instead they
are caught by a network of scientists who are
also after the stones. But the trio manages
to escape and take a third stone with them
from the network.
Now only the fourth piece remains; a stone
that once belonged to Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, the German poet and mineralogist,
and clues to its whereabouts are found in a
curious text about a place where “the wrath
of God never subsides”. The hunt continues
to Rome and to Vatican City. Will our heroes
manage to get hold of the last stone – and
piece the four together in order to create the
Queen Fossil?
The scientific adventure continues.
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Populisten
The Populist
by Thomas Bodström
May 2013, 392 pages
Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
Option publishers:
Heyne, Germany
Pegasus, Turkey
EMPIK, Poland
The Populist
Disaster strikes as the Government Offices is
under a hacker attack, the entire country is on
the verge of a breakdown and it is up to Mattias
Berglund to save the day.
Populisten is the fourth and final book in
the series about attorney Mattias Berglund,
County Bureau of Investigation officer Susanne Dahlgren and Minister for Justice
Gerd Lundin.
Mattias is newly divorced and has moved in
with Susanne, who has now made a career
and works as Gerd Lundin’s vice-minister for
justice. When defending a pastor who claims
to have been wrongfully accused of wifebeating, Mattias begins, for the first time, to
have doubts about his profession. Things are
further complicated when another one of
his clients, a homeless drug addict, dies in a
mysterious accident. Gerd has an uncomfortable feeling of being followed and Susanne
learns what it’s like when journalists merci-
lessly pursue politicians.
When a government office becomes the target of a hacker attack, catastrophe is a fact.
The entire country is on the verge of a breakdown.
Thomas Bodström’s track record shows great
versatility: Premier Division football player,
lawyer and Minister of Justice 2000 - 2006.
With unique insight into Sweden’s power
elite, Thomas Bodström gives us a sharp illustration of a populism that is spreading
like poison in all quarters of media, politics
and the judicial system.
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Rymmaren
The Escapee
by Thomas Bodström
May 2008, 447 pages
Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
German translation available.
When a brutal murder is committed at the Österåker correctional facility, Miro understands that his turn is next. The victim
was his cousin Vlado, and now there are only two thoughts in
his head: to escape and to exact revenge. The minister of justice
and the director of the national prisons and probation administration also play central roles in this action-packed plot.
Idealisten
The Idealist
by Thomas Bodström
April 2009, 368 pages
Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
German translation available.
Carlos, a young politician with an immigrant background, starts
a petition against racism together with a fellow colleague. They
are both members of the parliamentary Standing Committee
on Justice. When Carlos is brutally shot down outside his house, suspicion is immediately cast on rightwing extremist Carl
Struwe and his racist supporters.
Lobbyisten
The Lobbyist
by Thomas Bodström
May 2010, 379 pages
Senior Editor: Eva Gedin
German translation available.
It is 2014 and three weeks before the national parliamentary
elections. The party alliances and their lobbyists make use of
the media to throw dirt at each other. In the third part of the
series, the political game is more cynical and violent than ever.
An exciting and satirical description of how far one can go to be
faithful to one’s political party.
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Denise Rudberg
Born in 1971, author and columnist
Denise Rudberg lives in Stockholm. After
studying Film and Dramaturgy in New
York, she has made a successful career as
an author in Sweden. Her literary production includes, besides the Marianne Jidhoff series, two loosely built-up trilogies
of chick-lit novels as well as two suites of
YA books.
Elegant Crime
‘Elegant Crime’ is Denise Rudberg’s new genre,
serving crime stories set in an upper-class environment, with fancy dinners, designer dresses
and slightly bored housewives in posh suburbs.
Welcome to an exciting world filled with power,
money, extravagance and decadence.
Meet Marianne Jidhoff, 55, Prosecution
Secretary and recently widowed. After her
husband’s death, Marianne is persuaded to
return to the Public Prosecution Office.
Together with experienced Detective Chief
Inspector Torsten Ehn and the young talented Detective Inspector Augustin Madrid,
they form an unconventional team set to
investigating high profiled crimes. In this
Elegant Crime Series, we follow them on
their journeys, both their professional and
their personal ones.
Ett litet snedsprång spent seven months on
the national bestseller list, as hardcover and
pocket, and has sold more than 140 000 copies to date. Två gånger är en vana also spent
several months on the national bestseller list,
and has sold more than 130 000 copies so far.
Available material:
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Sample translation in English
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Cappelen Damm, Norway
Pegasus, Turkey
Amazon, World English
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Ett litet snedsprång­­
Stepping Over the Line
by Denise Rudberg
August 2010, 426 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
There have been leaks within the Public Prosecution Office, and
Olle Lundqvist, Chief Prosecutor, needs someone he can trust,
and with experience, for his team. He persuades Marianne Jidhoff to come back to work, and together with Torsten Ehn and
Augustin Madrid she starts investigating the macabre death of
a leading figure within the financial world.
Två gånger är en vana
Twice is a Habit
by Denise Rudberg
September 2011, 372 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
During the Christmas’ holidays, a strange assault occurs at the
well-reputed investment company The Chinese Wall. One of
the senior partners is found in the office severely injured. Marianne Jidhoff and the team are handed the case and slowly, but
surely, an increasingly horrifying image of systematic patriarchal abuse is unfolded.
Bara tre kan leka så
Only Three Can Play That Game
by Denise Rudberg
September 2013, 400 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
A highly placed and popular politician is found murdered in
his home in central Stockholm. The very same day, two women
living close by mysteriously disappear. Could the cases be connected? Marianne Jidhoff, Torsten Ehn and Augustin Madrid
are determined to untangle the mysteries.
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Robert Kviby
Robert Kviby, born 1976, is a full-time
writer and lives in Stockholm. Previously
he has worked as a market manager in a
major media company.
He made his debut in 2012 with De korrupta, the first title in the series about Annie
and Max Lander.
The Lander Series
“They were all prostitutes. All under thirty.
Found in wooded areas and parks. Naked. They
had been killed elsewhere and dumped where
their bodies were discovered. She was convinced
it was systematic. All four of them had met the
same man, and it had led to their deaths.”
In 2012, Robert Kviby made his literary debut with the crime novel De korrupta, where
we meet the married couple Annie and Max
Lander. Through Annie’s journalistic investigations and her strong character, Annie and
Max end up as pawns in a corrupt game run
between powerful corporate magnates and
the Yugoslavian mafia. Since publication, De
korrupta has sold more than 42 000 copies.
In the sequel, Listan, we follow Annie and
Max again on their crusade against the corrupt. False accusations have been keeping
them on the run and away from their loved
ones for years. In their pursuit of the truth,
they find evidence of how multi-national
companies benefit from horrible crimes
of war, raising the stakes of the game even
more. Will they finally be able to clear their
names?
The Lander Series serves a thrilling read
from the first page and on.
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De korrupta
The Corrupt
by Robert Kviby
February 2012, 311 pages
Senior Editor: Annika Seward-Jensen, Telegram
January 1989, criminal reporter Annie Lander has for
some time been working on a story about four murdered prostitutes, convinced that there is a pattern.
Annie is starting to get close, to the real story about
the women, as well as to the truth about the unsolved
murder of her mother. And then suddenly she is gone,
and it is up to her husband Max to find her.
Listan
The List
by Robert Kviby
Summer 2013, 330 pages
Senior Editor: Annika Seward-Jensen, Telegram
Eight years later, December 1997, Annie and Max
have been on the run for years, hiding from the police and from Annie’s psychopathic half-brother. In
Patras, Greece, they are traced by an American journalist, who claims to have proof that mercenaries
partaking in the Balkan wars may have been involved
in systematic rape of Bosnian girls. And some of the
mercenaries might be Swedes. With an unknown hit
man on their tail, the trio goes on a quest to expose
the truth before time runs out on their freedom.
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LISTAN
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Hans Koppel
Petter Lidbeck, born in 1964, lives in
Stockholm. Under the pseudonym Hans
Koppel he has previously published three
satirical novels about the Swedish middle
class of today.
Kommer aldrig mer igen/Never coming back
was his first thriller in a planned trilogy.
The stand alone sequel Kom ska vi tycka
om varandra/You’re Mine Now was published in Sweden in October 2012 and the
third and final instalment of the series is
scheduled for autumn 2013.
Press voices for Hans Koppel
“Naturally Hans Koppel, alias Petter Lidbeck, should use his swift-minded punchy
stile to write crime novels.” Dagens Nyheter
“There are some fine stories out there and
this is probably one of the best.”
612 ABC Brisbane Radio (AUS)
“Koppel is a very fine writer but it’s as a
machine perfectly designed to provoke compulsive page-turning that makes this book
so sensational. I read it in two long sessions
and if you’re the sort of person who doesn’t
need much sleep, you’ll do it in one.”
Morning Star (UK)
“It is exciting and there aren’t many superfluous scenes here. It reminds me of Hitchcock’s devilishly effective paranoia films /.../
Lidbeck/Koppel has a sure sense of style, not
least when it comes to a genre where most
Swedish thriller-writers fail: to write entertaining and hard-hitting dialogue which also
moves the plot along.” Helsingborgs Dagblad
“A supremely professional piece of work with
a palpable sense of tension, and couched in
unvarnished prose.” The Independent (UK)
“crisp and simple yet devastatingly effective, this is an unrelenting, terrifying slab of
a psychological thriller which ticks all the
right boxes.” Daily Mirror (UK)
“An ice-cold and cleverly composed thriller
on guilt and revenge.” Sydsvenskan
“It is exciting from the first page to the last.
The author builds up an infernal and nailbiting dramatic situation.” DAST Magazine
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Rights sold to:
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Pegasus, US
Bruna, the Netherlands
Heyne, Germany
Presses de la Cité, France
Piemme, Italy
Planeta, Spain
Ayrinti, Turkey
Eurasian, Taiwan
Weltbild/Swiat Ksiazki, Poland
Front Forlag, Norway
People’s Press, Denmark
Verus/Record, Brazil
CITIC Press, China
Mladá Fronta, Czech Republic
“Lidbeck is a skilled writer.” Expressen
“If you like your books on the gritty and violent side – it really isn’t pretty in that cellar
– then why not try this harrowing tale of
bitter revenge.”
Peterborough Evening Telegraph (UK)
“Hans Koppel’s crime thriller is skilfully
construed and sometimes really, really scary
/.../ Revenge is not just sweet; it can also be
very, very raw – which Hans Koppel proves
to me in his new thriller. /.../ I am sucked
into the exciting plot and can’t stop reading.
I want more, more, more.” The Book of the
Month, March 2011, Your Life Magazine
“A dense thriller of the suspenseful type
with an unexpected ending.” BTJ
“Hans Koppel’s thriller debut is not for the
faint of heart, because the Swedish author
understands superbly how to spread fear and
terror. He plays perfectly on the instruments
of the genre and keeps up the tension literally until the last page.” Buchjournal (DE)
“Just 24 hours with a break of six hours sleep
– that’s all I needed to read Kommer aldrig
mer igen. Despite it being a 350-page thick
novel. But as soon as I had grabbed hold of
Hans Koppel’s debut novel, stopping was no
longer an option. The Scandinavian author has achieved an incredibly engrossing
thriller that is selling like hot cakes in ten
countries already.” Berliner Kurier (DE)
“The detective novel is strongly reminiscent
of the fate of Natascha Kampusch, who was
also kidnapped and held prisoner in a small
basement room for more than 3 069 days by
her tormentors /.../ Hans Koppel presents in
his debut thriller a psychological novel that
skilfully mixes reality and fantasy into a dense fabric.” Siegener Zeitung (DE)
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Om döda ont
What Comes Around
by Hans Koppel
September 2013, 282 pages
Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram
Not final cover
Available material:
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Kom ska vi tycka om varandra
What Comes Around
A man is left stranded at a motorway service
station outside Gränna. His mate has taken the
car and the money and simply left him there.
Now their boss is on the way to pick him up and
she is not pleased. It wasn’t a lot of cash, but she
still has to set an example. The rest must learn
what happens if they try to rip her off.
Calle Collin is in Höganäs in the south of
Sweden to do his usual kind of report – a
heartbreaking portrait of someone’s loved
one who passed away before their time, suitable for a family magazine.
This time the story is about a 13 year-old kid
who got killed in a hit-and-run many years
ago, but Calle can’t really get a grip of what
to write. The mother is still grieving and seems to have an unrealistic notion of who her
son really was. The brother, now a grown-up
looking like an anabolic crunching torpedo,
says very little at all. And the brother’s girlfriend is giving Calle the creeps. Calle starts
to look elsewhere for information and realises that very little positive is to say about the
deceased. Still he manages to write a tearjerking story about the boy and the mother
who still misses him dearly.
At another newspaper, young star columnist Anders Malmberg sees the report and
instantly recognises the tormentor from his
childhood. The boy, Kent, had made his life
a living hell; he was nothing at all like the
angel portrayed in the magazine. Anders decides his next column should be a strong and
personal one – revealing the real truth about
the boy and the mendacity of magazine reporters.
Soon both Anders Malmberg and Calle Collin are in danger. Some truths should be left
unspoken – and one should never speak ill of
the dead.
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Kommer aldrig mer igen
Never Coming Back
Tidiga
Petter Lidbeck, född 1964 i Helsingborg, är
flerfaldigt prisbelönad barnboksförfattare.
2008 debuterade han under pseudonymen
Hans Koppel som skönlitterär författare för
vuxna med kritikerhyllade Vi i villa. Han bor i
Stockholm med fru och dotter.
by Hans Koppel
January 2011, 251 pages
Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram
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»våren
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Mike Zetterberg bor med sin hustru Ylva och deras
dotter i en villa strax utanför Helsingborg. När Ylva
försvinner spårlöst riktas misstankarna snart mot Mike.
Vad har egentligen hänt bakom gardinerna i villaidyllen?
Polisen gissar passionsdrama med olyckligt slut men
saknar bevis. Efter en tid kan ingen föreställa sig att Ylva
fortfarande är i livet. Allra minst Mike. Men Ylva lever. Och
hon är betydligt närmare än någon kan föreställa sig …
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A woman is held imprisoned just a stone’s throw
from her own home and she knows why: her past
has caught up with her. The revenge that strikes her
is cruel, drawn out and meticulously served. Hans
Koppel paints, in his characteristically sharp prose,
a claustrophobic nightmare where evil deeds – even
those seemingly buried in the dust of time – never go
unpunished.
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Kommer aldrig mer igen är en gastkramande thriller med
oväntad upplösning. Sällan har begreppet bladvändare
kommit mer till sin rätt. Boken är redan såld till tio länder
och produktionsbolaget som filmade Stieg Larssons
Millenium-böcker har köpt filmrättigheterna.
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90 000 copies sold in Sweden, 60 000 copies sold in
the UK!
örfattarfoto: Anna-Lena Ahlström | Formgivning: Jens Magnusson | Omslagsfoto: Patrick Ryan
Kom ska vi tycka om varandra
You’re Mine Now
by Hans Koppel
October 2012, 300 pages
Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram
Anna is living happily with her husband and daughter but falls head over heels for Eric when staying at
a hotel for a job conference. It is the best sex she has
ever had, but a mistake, and she tries to break it off.
Eric reacts with jealousy and anger. He does not care
that she has a family, and soon the conversation is
alarming Anna. He will do anything to be with her,
and the lives of her loved ones are in danger.
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Hjorth & Rosenfeldt
Michael Hjorth was born in 1963 in Visby.
He is one of Scandinavia’s most accomplished screenwriters and producers, and
one of the founders of the internationally successful production company Tre
Vänner.
Hans Rosenfeldt was born in 1964 in
Borås. He has written screenplays for
twenty drama series, including the international success Bron/The Bridge, and has
hosted both radio and television shows.
The Sebastian Bergman Series
Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt got off
to a flying start with the publication of their
debut Det fördolda in 2010. With psychologist and profiler Sebastian Bergman – an
arrogant and narcissistic womanizer with a
personal trauma – in the lead role, Hjorth &
Rosenfeldt had created an instant success.
Sebastian is confronted with his past, and
with his nemesis. Since publication, Lärjungen has sold 164 000 copies.
Months before Det fördolda was published
in Sweden, translation rights were sold to
nine countries. After the publication, to great reviews, the novel could be found on the
bestseller list, where it remained for eight
months. So far Det fördolda has sold more
than 212 000 copies in Sweden.
In Germany, the Sebastian Bergman series
has been even more successful than in Sweden; since publication of the first German
translation in 2011, Hjorth & Rosenfeldt have
never left the top of the charts. So far, more
than 800 000 copies of the Sebastian Bergman books have been sold in Germany alone.
Lärjungen was published in August 2011. This
second part in the series reveals to the readers even more about Sebastian Bergman,
in a breathtaking roller coaster ride where
Rights to the Sebastian Bergman series have
been sold to 22 countries to this date.
The third part of the series, Fjällgraven, was
published in October 2012 and has so far sold
more than 142 000 copies.
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“An exceedingly quick, efficient and continuously action packed crime thriller. They
know their craft. They have great command
of the staccato rhythm of this curt, brusque
language and use it to create drama and continuously increasing tension.”
Borås Tidning (SE)
“Sebastian Bergman is a positive addition to
the crime world. An excellent thriller.”
Het Parool (NL)
“Det fördolda is a brilliant crime novel”
Ny Nordisk Litteratur (DK)
“Det fördolda is definitely one of the fall’s
best crime novels. /…/ Mikael Hjorth and
Hans Rosenfeldt succeed in the art of writing a well-composed plot, place it in a believable environment and spice it with a good
language. The book literally draws you from
page to page, and keeps you pinned from letter to letter.” Sandefjords Blad (NO)
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Hr Ferdinand, Denmark
Bazaar, Finland
Bjartur, Iceland
Rowohlt, Germany
De Bezige Bij, the Netherlands
Einaudi, Italy
Psichogios, Greece
Editions Prisma, France
Czarna Owca, Poland
Host, Czech Republic
Corpus, Russia
Animus, Hungary
Editura Trei, Romania
Trapdoor/Little, Brown, UK
Murdoch, Australia & NZ
Grand Central, US
Pegasus, Turkey
Intrinseca, Brazil
Gachi-Changjo, Korea
Tokyo Sogen, Japan
Global, Taiwan
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Fjällgraven
The Mountain Grave
by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt
October 2012, 422 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
Available material:
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German translations
English translations of Det fördolda and Lärjungen
The Mountain Grave
Two women are hiking in the mountains of Jämtland in the North of Sweden. It’s autumn and
it’s raining hard, and when one of them slips
close to a raging torrent, they make a macabre
discovery: the hand of a skeleton protruding
from the river bank.
The local police arrive at the scene and soon
find that there is more than one body buried
in the ground. When the area is fully excavated, six bodies have been found; four adults
and two children. The Crime Investigation
Department (CID) is called in, and Sebastian Bergman travels to Jämtland along with
the rest of the team.
On site, it is quickly established that the six
were buried at the same time, although the
state of the remains differ. Two of the bodies
can be easily identified as a Dutch couple
who were reported missing in November
2003. The others are a mystery – their DNA
prove that they are a family, but no family
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had been reported missing that autumn. A
lot of things don’t quite add up for the CID
team.
Sebastian has enjoyed a new-found closeness
with Vanja after saving her life from Edward
Hinde. But when he hears that she might
be moving abroad he is horrified, and decides to do everything he can to stop it. Vanja
still doesn’t know that Sebastian is her real
father, but maybe there is someone else on
the team who does…
In Fjällgraven, we follow profiler and psychologist Sebastian Bergman and his colleagues
in the CID team again. In a thrilling pursuit
of the truth, they are up against powerful
forces that are willing to go to the ends of
the earth to make sure that their secret agenda – and mistakes – remain secret.
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Det fördolda
Dark Secrets
by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt
August 2010, 417 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
A sixteen-year-old boy, Roger, has gone missing, and
his mother is worried. After a few days he is found –
in a marsh, dead, with his heart has been cut out of
his body.
Sebastian Bergman, psychologist, criminal profiler
and one of Sweden’s top experts on serial killers, reluctantly finds himself, for the first time in a long
while, drawn into a murder investigation. Det fördolda is an intelligent and riveting story, impossible to
let go of.
Lärjungen
The Disciple
by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt
August 2011, 491 pages
Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus
In the second book about Sebastian Bergman he is
drawn into a copycat case: a series of brutal murders
of women, down to the last detail exactly like those
committed by the serial killer Edward Hinde, a man
Sebastian put behind bars many years ago.
Bergman is pitted against his old nemesis Hinde in
a dramatic and suspenseful race against time, which
keeps the reader captivated beyond the final pages of
the book.
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Maria Lang
Maria Lang was a nom du plume for
Dagmar Lange, 1914–1991, who during her
lifetime wrote 42 detective stories and in
many regards can be considered the first
queen of Swedish crime fiction.
The Grand Old Lady of Swedish Crime
Sweden’s answer to Agatha Christie, and the
origin of the crime novel wave of our times. She
debuted in 1949 with Mördaren ljuger inte ensam and for the next 42 years she dominated the
crime fiction genre, feeding her readers’ neverending appetite for suspense.
The queen of cosy crime, Maria Lang (1914–
1991), wrote 42 much loved detective stories
during her lifetime. Her debut Mördaren ljuger inte ensam was published in 1949 and was
followed by a new book each year until 1991.
Maria Lang (pseud. for Dagmar Lange) had a
PhD in Literature and worked as a direct-or
of studies and senior lecturer at the New Elementary School for Girls in Stockholm from
1948 to 1974. She lived at times in Nora, where
she moved after her retirement. Maria Lang
was a member of the Swedish detective aca-
demy. For a long time, Maria Lang was one of
the most popular and widely read crime writers, but lately her work has been neglected.
Her books are traditional puzzle mysteries
often set in the academic environment or
in the small mining town Skoga, a slight
euphemism for the real life Nora.
Christer Wijk, a handsome and pipe-smoking detective is the recurrent problem solver in her books. The protagonist in the first
novels is the dashing professor’s daughter
Puck Ekstedt, but from Vår sång blir stum/
Our song is dumb (1960), the detective novelist Almi Graan (an anagram of Maria Lang)
helps Wijk solve the criminal mysteries.
Maria Lang describes human passions and
erotic conflicts but is sometimes startlingly
modern. Like in her first novel, where she
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makes a both matter of fact and passionate
plea that homosexual love is real love too.
And this was written only five years after
homosexuality was decriminalized and thirty years before the Swedish Board of Health
and Welfare stopped declaring it a disease.
This year, Swedish television channel TV4 is
making a series based on six of Maria Lang’s
books from the forties and fifties, all set
around Skoga and in different seasons. The
first film will be shown in cinemas in spring
2013, and the TV series that follows will be
shown in Sweden during fall 2013. Distribution rights to Denmark, Norway and Finland
are confirmed so far.
In 2013, Norstedts relaunched this vintage
crime gem with Maria Lang’s first six books
in new editions with imagery of the 1950s.
Rights sold to:
Random House, Germany
Hodder & Stoughton, World English rights
Silke, Norway
Gummerus, Finland
Ediciones B, Spain
Rosenkilde & Bahnhof, Denmark
Film rights:
Pampas Film AB/TV4
Available material:
English translation of Inte flera mord!/
No More Murders
German sample translation of
Se, döden på dig väntar/See Death Upon
You Waits
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Mördaren ljuger inte ensam
The Murderer Doesn’t Lie Alone
by Maria Lang
March 2013, 244 pages
Senior Editor: Peter Karlsson
On a remote island in a divine lake lies Rutger’s dream cabin, a
paradise for stressed city people. A handful of guests are playing
around on the island, swimming, sailing and dancing. But for
some it turns into more than a game. One is murdered. One becomes a murderer. And they all have something to hide.
Farligt att förtära
Harmful if Eaten
by Maria Lang
March 2013, 271 pages
Senior Editor: Peter Karlsson
At a theatre performance in connection with a student party at
the secondary school, the heroine drops dead on stage, poisoned.
Shortly thereafter another girl is found dead under the stage.
The tension and fear is spreading in the school.
Inte flera mord!
No More Murders!
by Maria Lang
March 2013, 228 pages
Senior Editor: Peter Karlsson
Newly-weds Puck and Einar Bure are planning to spend a restful
holiday together with Puck’s father Professor Johannes Ekstedt,
in the idyllic small town Skoga. But on the first day, the Professor finds a young man dead outside his window. When inquisitive Puck starts scrutinizing the small society, she finds hatred,
jealousy and cruelty lurking under the pleasent surface.
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En skugga blott
Just a Shadow
by Maria Lang
August 2013, 213 pages
Senior Editor: Peter Karlsson
When Puck Bure comes home after a trip abroad, she finds a
strange woman in the Bure home – strangled and drowned in
the bathtub. But an unfamiliar set of keys on the table provides
a vital clue and reveals a tangle of love, envy and jealousy within
an ambitious academic circle.
Rosor, kyssar och döden
Roses, Kisses and Death
by Maria Lang
August 2013, 208 pages
Senior Editor: Peter Karlsson
Puck and Eje have been invited to the engagement party for
their friend superintendent Christer Wijk and the beautiful
Gabriella Malmer. But there is tension within the Malmer
family and when Gabriella’s grandfather dies, shortly after
having exclaimed that he intends to rewrite the will, suspicion
flourishes at the Malmer Manor.
Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård
Tragedy at a Country Cemetery
by Maria Lang
August 2013, 240 pages
Senior Editor: Peter Karlsson
At Vicar Tord Ekstedt’s home, Puck and Einar are enjoying
the festive Christmas spirits. But before long, the picturesque
parish village has become a murder scene and the list of suspects
is frightfully long.
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fiction
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Johannes Anyuru
En storm kom från paradiset/
A Storm Blew in From Paradise (2012)
Mikael Bergstrand
Dimma över Darjeeling/Mist over Darjeeling (2013)
Per Olov Enquist
Liknelseboken/Metaphor – A Love Story (2013)
Jonas Gardell
Torkar aldrig tårar utan handskar/
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves (2012 & 2013)
AnnaMaria Jansson
Välkommen ut på andra sidan/
Welcome to the Other Side (2013)
Pija Lindenbaum
Plats/Stay! (2013)
Kristina Sandberg
Sörja för de sina/Caring for One’s Own (2012)
Maria Sveland
Systrar & bröder/Sisters & Brothers (2013)
Jenny Åkervall
Jag tjänar inte/I Will Not Serve (2013)
Carl-Henning Wijkmark
Vi ses igen i nästa dröm/We’ll Meet Again (2013)
crime fiction
Thomas Bodström
Rymmaren/The Escapee (2008); Idealisten/
The Idealist (2009); Lobbyisten/The Lobbyist (2010);
Populisten/The Populist (2013)
Michael Hjorth &
Det fördolda/Dark Secrets (2010)
Hans Rosenfeldt, Lärjungen/The Disciple (2011)
The Sebastian Bergman
Fjällgraven/The Mountain Grave (2012)
Series:Den stumma flickan/The Mute Girl (2014)
Hans Koppel,
Kommer aldrig mer igen/Never Coming Back (2011)
The Collin Series:
Kom ska vi tycka om varandra/You’re Mine Now (2012)
Om döda ont/What Comes Around (2013)
Robert Kviby, De korrupta/The Corrupt (2012)
The Lander Series:
Listan/The List (2013)
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Maria Lang, Mördaren ljuger inte ensam/
Relaunch of her classical
The Murderer Doesn’t Lie Alone (1949; 2013)
whodunnit novels:
Farligt att förtära/Harmful if Eaten (1950; 2013)
Inte flera mord!/No More Murders! (1951; 2013) et al
Michael Mortimer
Jungfrustenen/The Maidenstone (2013)
Fossildrottningen/The Escape from Paradise (2014) et al
Denise Rudberg, Ett litet snedsprång/Stepping Over the Line (2010)
Elegant Crime Series:
Två gånger är en vana/Twice is a Habit (2011)
Bara tre kan leka så/Only Three Can Play That Game (2013)
General non-fiction
Henrik Arnstad
­­Älskade fascism/Fascism, Mon Amour – The Ideology and
History of the Black-and-Brown Movements (2013)
Jesper Bengtsson
Aung San Suu Kyi – En kamp för frihet/
Aung San Suu Kyi – A Biography (2011; updated 2013)
Ingrid Carlberg Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig/
Raoul Wallenberg – A Biography (2012)
Claes Ericson
Oligarkerna/The Oligarchs –
Money and Power in Capitalist Russia (2011; updated 2012)
Sven-Göran Eriksson & Stefan Lövgren The Official Sven-Göran Eriksson Biography:
Svennis – Min historia/Sven – My Story (2013)
Daniel Goldberg & Minecraft/Minecraft (2012)
Linus Larsson
Tore Jansson
Germanerna/Tale of the Teutons – Germanic and German
in Antiquity and Afterwards (2013)
Jonathan Lindström
Medvetandets gåta/The Curiosity of the Mind (2013)
Sven Lindström
Roxette/Roxette – The Incredible Journey (2013)
Bea UusmaExpeditionen – Min kärlekshistoria/
The Expedition – A Love Story (2013)
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