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crime Fiction Jungfrustenen The Maidenstone by Michael Mortimer (pseudonym) Autumn 2013, 438 pages Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus, Peter Karlssom Rights sold to: Bruna, Netherlands • Destino, Spain Btb, Germany • Modtryk, Denmark KRP Yayincilik,Turkey Available material: Catalogue Sample translation in English Full English translation available in January 2014
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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crime Fiction Fossildrottningen The Escape from Paradise by Michael Mortimer (pseudonym) Spring 2014, 509 pages Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus, Peter Karlsson Rights sold to: Bruna, Netherlands • Destino, Spain Btb, Germany • Modtryk, Denmark KRP Yayincilik,Turkey (option)
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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crime Fiction 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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crime fiction 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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crime Fiction 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: Catalogue Sample translation in English Rights sold to: Cappelen Damm, Norway Pegasus, Turkey Amazon, World English
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crime fiction 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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crime Fiction 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. Rights sold to: Rowohlt, Germany Albatros, Poland Available material: Catalogue Sample translation and summary in English German translation continued >
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crime fiction 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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crime Fiction 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 continued >
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crime Fiction Rights sold to: Little, Brown, UK 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) continued >
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crime Fiction Om döda ont What Comes Around by Hans Koppel September 2013, 282 pages Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram
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Available material: Catalogue English translations of Kommer aldrig mer igen and 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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crime fiction Kommer aldrig mer igen Never Coming Back
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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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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 …
»Noré Aftonb
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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Hans Koppel är pseudonym för Petter Lidbeck. .
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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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crime Fiction 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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crime Fiction Fjällgraven The Mountain Grave by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt October 2012, 422 pages Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus Available material: Catalogue 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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crime fiction 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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crime Fiction 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 continued >
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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.
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crime Fiction 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. continued >
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crime fiction 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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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) continued >
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norstedts agency Rights List 2013 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 Uusma Expeditionen – Min kärlekshistoria/ The Expedition – A Love Story (2013)
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