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‘Wow! This is a gripping debut novel about family, secrets and lies… held me spellbound from beginning to end’ NetGalley reviewerShortlisted for the 2022 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger awardIn a small town full of secrets, anyone could be a killer.Detective Kjeld Nygaard wants nothing more than to forget his family and Varsund, the small mining town he once called home, even exist. But while on suspension after...

‘Adored it . . . What are you waiting for? Go and read this book. It's brilliant’ NetGalley reviewer, ★★★★★They survived once. Can he save them this time?When Detective Kjeld Nygaard is called to the discovery of a body in the burnt-out shell of a house, his heart sinks. He never wanted to see this house again. The house of a notorious serial killer. The house where he rescued Louisa Karlsson from being mur...

‘A delicious slice of Scandi noir – such a dark, atmospheric and compelling story! And ahh, if only those ravens could talk…’Jackie Kabler, author of The Perfect CoupleShortlisted for the 2022 CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger awardIn a small town full of secrets, anyone could be a killer.Detective Kjeld Nygaard wants nothing more than to forget his family and Varsund, the small mi...

‘Adored it . . . What are you waiting for? Go and read this book. It's brilliant’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐They survived once. Can he save them this time?When Detective Kjeld Nygaard is called to the discovery of a body in the burnt-out shell of a house, his heart sinks. He never wanted to see this house again. The house of a notorious serial killer. The house where he rescued Louisa Karlsson from being mur...

As a police team is called in to investigate a woman's suicide at the Hólmsheiði prison outside Reykjavík, to detective Guðgeir Fransson it looks like a tragic but straightforward case.It's only afterwards that the pieces begin to fall into place and he takes a deeper interest in Kristín Kjarr's troubled background, and why she had found herself in prison.His search leads him to a series of brutal crimes committed twenty years before and the unexplained disappearance of the...

Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavík police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end job in a small town in eastern Iceland.His detective's instincts are triggered when he hears about a foreign woman who arrived in this tight-knit community—and then disappeared as suddenly as she had appeared. The trail of the missing woman takes him back to Reykjaví...

A MISSING CHILDIn Karlstad, nine-month-old Beatrice is missing from her pram. Her parents are in shock and the media is in a frenzy.A PERSONAL STRUGGLEDI Charlie Lager is struggling with her own demons when she's called to investigate, forced to push them aside as the case intensifies.A CLOCK RUNNING DOWNAs lead after lead goes nowhere, Charlie starts to feel like nobody actually wants the truth to come...

A secluded island. A missing woman. An impossible choice.Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby is not the only person to have returned to her native island nation, Doggerland, after years abroad. Following a ten-year hiatus, Luna has chosen to secretly record her comeback album where she was born and raised. Spirits are high among her team at the wrap party, though Karen is less than impressed with the simpering singer. The next morning, Luna is nowhere to be found.

A disused quarry. A suspicious death. A dark past bubbling to the surface . . .Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby is one of the few female police officers on the remote island nation of Doggerland, situated in the North Sea between the UK and Denmark. Though she returned to her homeland from London some years ago, she has largely avoided visiting the northernmost island, Noorö, where her father's wayward family reside.When a man's body is discovered on Christma...

‘I was gripped’ Louise Jensen, author of The Fall'This book is going to be one of my best reads this year' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'TREMENDOUS!!!! Who saw that ending coming?!' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Teenage girls can do some pretty awful things…Lexie and Amber used to share everything, especially their dream of getting out of their small-town home. Born only ...

'A thriller that lingers in the memory' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB'Dark Nordic noir' THE i'A global bestseller' SUNDAY TIMESThe award-winning, international bestselling Swedish crime debut about a missing girl, and the detective who must return home and confront her darkest secrets in order to find her - for fans of Susie Steiner, Samuel Bjork, and Lisa Jewell._____________________________...

DI Charlie Lager returns to investigate a long-buried disappearance in this 'atmospheric', 'evocative' and 'arresting' page-turner of a procedural from the new Swedish queen of crime fiction************She must find the truth about Francesca. Before the past catches up with her...AN UNSOLVED MYSTERYThirty years ago, teenager Paul Bergman was found drowned in Gullspå...