Once the world’s prairies, grasslands, steppes and tundra teemed with massive herds of game: gazelle, wild ass, bison, caribou and antelope. Humans seeking to hunt these large fast-moving herds devised a range of specialised traps that share many characteristics across all continents. Typically consisting of guiding walls or lines of stones leading to an enclosure or trap, game drives were designed for a mass killing. Construction of the game drive, organisation of the hunt and processing ...

'Finally a novel I couldn't put down for an entire weekend' - Petra Hammesfahr, German bestselling author 'Anna Jansson is the new literary voice from the Nordic countries' - Berliner Morgenpost One forgotten grave. Two identical crimes. A killer who was supposed to be dead. Detective Constable Maria Wern is no stranger to the darkness of the Swedish landscape, but nothing could prepare her for the ritualistic horror found in the local woods. A man hangs from a noose, his body marked by a ...

In the digital age, your children are never truly home. When a fourteen-year-old girl vanishes on her way home from a school movie night, the illusion of safety in Kronviken is shattered. Her body is discovered the next morning in the frozen forest - a lifeless victim of a predator who lured her with a lethal offer: 'We're looking for the right face to front our new make-up collection. I'd like to get together and take a few pictures. This will be our secret.' As Detective Inspector Maria ...

The earth never forgets. And some promises should never be kept. Frida Norrby has lived a long, quiet life near the ancient Roma church on Gotland. But when her husband, Helge, passes away, he leaves behind a burden heavier than grief: a secret buried decades ago in a field of stone. Bound by a vow of silence to a dying friend, Frida does the unthinkable. She takes a spade to the earth and unearths the fragile skeleton of an infant - a horrible truth she decides to bring into her own home....

A ritualistic grave. A silent widow. A secret that refused to stay buried. Wilhelm Jacobsson was a man defined by his friction - a stubborn, fiercely independent farmer who spent his life at war with his neighbors. But when he vanishes without a trace from the Gotland ferry, his silence becomes more dangerous than his words. Days later, during the revelry of Gotland's Medieval Week, the festivities are shattered by a gruesome discovery. In the shadow of the ancient Iron Age ruins of Vallha...

A miracle is for sale. But the cost is paid in blood. For the elite clients of the Cheiron Clinic, the world-renowned fertility center is a place of hope and new beginnings. But behind the hospital's sterile, white walls, Detective Inspector Maria Wern discovers a much darker reality - one where women are suffering from inexplicable hallucinations and wounds that refuse to heal. When a patient takes her life in a fit of absolute desperation, Maria is pulled into the clinic's orbit. There, ...

Rosemary for remembrance. But some secrets are better left buried. Detective Inspector Maria Wern wakes up in a dark, concrete bunker with a throbbing head wound and a corpse for a cellmate. The man beside her is cold, dead, and has a single sprig of rosemary pinned to his chest. The message is clear: Someone is watching her. Someone knows her every move. The nightmare began with a routine missing persons report. Rosmarie Haag's husband, a high-end estate agent, vanished after a business d...

A secret from the past. A storm in the present. A killer with an invitation. Thirty years ago, two children found a pirate's map hidden in a damp Visby prison tower, swearing a blood oath to find a shipwreck looter's treasure on the desolate island of Gotska Sandön. But secrets that begin in the dark rarely stay there. Now, just before Christmas, one of those children, Erik Hansson, is found frozen to death in his car. The official ruling is suicide by rare plant poison - but the truth is ...

How far would you go to save your child? On a secluded Gotland beach, a middle-aged couple watches a stranger pitch a tent. Day after day, he returns-always with a different woman at his side. The neighbors watch from their window with a mounting, sickening suspicion: Are these women guests, or are they prisoners? The mystery takes a frantic turn for Detective Inspector Maria Wern when Cecilia, a woman suffering from a terminal heart condition, vanishes. Without her life-saving medication,...

A storm is coming. The clock is ticking. And the end is closer than you think. It is June in Visby, and an unusual start to the summer has brought Gotland to its knees. Hurricane-force winds have severed the Swedish island from the mainland, cancelling all boat traffic and leaving the inhabitants trapped. Amidst the howling gales, the prestigious Politicians' Week begins with a bloodbath: a young woman, married to a rising political star, is found brutally murdered in her own home. Detecti...

The flame has a voice. And it's calling for blood. Eleven-year-old Leo knows that fire is alive. He watched it take his mother, and now, he watches it follow him. In the shadows of his new home in Visby, the smell of turpentine and the crackle of burning plastic become his only companions. To Leo, the flames aren't just destruction-they are a face trying to whisper a secret about the dead children in his mother's old photographs. As a series of suspicious fires begins to consume the neighb...

The smallest secret can shatter a life. For the legendary glass artist Justus Hartman, the fire of the furnace was never just about craft-it was about a mystical obsession with alchemy that demanded absolute secrecy. For decades, he kept his apprentices in a tight, sect-like circle, guarding a truth that transcended wealth. But the pursuit of the 'Great Work' always has a price. The peace of Gotland is cracked when Justus is abducted from his hospital bed in a stolen van. For his nephew, P...