While investigating the disappearance of a man reported missing by his wife, police officer Eira Sjödin, knowing the pain of loss, loses herself in an affair with her boss until he, too, disappears, leaving her at the mercy of an elusive perpetrator--and a love she can no longer deny.

"Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received an ominous postcard describing a gun and nine white bullets--one of which was intended for her partner, Detective Joona Linna. The sender alleged that Saga was the only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded. Until now. A sack with a decomposing body has been found hanging from a tree in the forest. A milky white bullet casing turns up at the scene. When the body count begins...

An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....

Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish prime minister. The foreign minister has been brutally murdered. There's a chance more political figures could be targeted. The police need Linna to find the killer and neutralize the threat, so he's granted a temporary release from prison. But when another murder occurs,...

"Presumed dead by the Stockholm police -- with a couple of notable exceptions, including homicide detective Ewert Grens -- master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in South America. Hoffmann stays in touch with his former police handler, Erik Wilson, but unfortunately there is no money to be had in maintaining his unofficial...

Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedom?

Gdy w spokojnym miasteczku Fjällbaka na zachodnim wybrzeżu Szwecji zostaje znaleziona martwa Alexandra Wijkner, wszystko wskazuje na to, że popełniła samobójstwo. Matka kobiety ma jednak wątpliwości i prosi przyjaciółkę córki z dzieciństwa, pisarkę Erikę Falck żeby przyjrzała się tej tragedii. Erika, która powróciła w rodzinne strony by poukładać własne sprawy, wspólnie z Patrikiem Hedströmem, kolegą z młodzieńczych lat,...

"Autumn rains are pouring down on the Swedish countryside, but it's the discovery of a brutally stabbed body floating facedown in the moat of Skogså Castle that chills one town to the bone. Jerry Petersson, the castle's new owner and a notoriously ruthless lawyer and entrepreneur, is now, shall we say, permanently out of business. Meanwhile, Malin Fors, the brilliant but flawed star of the local police force, is already struggling to keep her life...

Pewnej letniej nocy stary rybak dostrzega dryfujący po zatoce Jungfrufjärden uszkodzony jacht. Na pokładzie znajduje ciało dziewczny. Jej płuca pełne morskiej wody, ale ubranie, skóra i włosy pozostały suche. Policja szbko ustala, że zmarła młodszą siostrą Penolope Fernandez, szwedzkiej aktywistki na rzecz poloju, która wraz ze swoim chłopakiem, właścicielem jachtu, zapadła się pod ziemię. Komisarz kryminalny Joona Linna chce...