Stockholm Noir joins Copenhagen Noir and Helsinki Noir in powerfully representing the Akashic Noir Series in Scandinavia.

Независимая и демократичная, богатая и процветающая, спокойная и сытая – такой всегда являлась Швеция в представлениях иностранцев. Однако со временем стало ясно, что эта благолепная картина – лишь фасад, лоск на котором тщательно наводили в стране в течение многих лет. Как и везде в мире, здесь широко распространены и процветают многие человеческие пороки. Величайшие мастера жанра предупреждают в своих рассказах о страшных последствиях гнева, жестокости, алчности, зависти, темной страсти, ксенофобии и других «цветов зла». Оса Ларссон, Ингер Фриманссон, Валё и Шеваль, Манкель и Нессер… И конечно же, сам Стиг Ларссон!

Изуродованные с чудовищной жестокостью тела молодых парней находят одновременно в Англии и Швеции. Все убитые в Лондоне — шведы, а в Гетеборге — англичане. И все преступления убийца, словно возомнивший себя Альфредом Хичкоком, снял на видео. Но зачем? Кому могли понадобиться фильмы с кровавыми убийствами? В поисках свидетелей Эрик Винтер попадает то в криминальные кварталы Южного Лондона, то в элитарные гетеборгские закрытые клубы, то в дешевые стриптиз-бары. Но все молчат. А время на исходе. Убийца уже готовит новую серию жестокого сериала…

Тело жестоко убитой Хелен Андерсон обнаружено в парке Гетеборга, а ее ребенок бесследно исчез. Но кому могла помешать простая девушка? Инспектор Эрик Винтер, которому поручено дело, поначалу склонен искать мотивы убийства в ограблении, свидетельницей которого стала однажды Хелен. Но почему грабители ждали столько лет, чтобы свести с ней счеты? И зачем им понадобился ребенок жертвы? Расследование заводит Эрика все дальше — от элегантных особняков состоятельных буржуа в нищие предместья, где обитают те, кому давно уже нечего терять. Однако люди, задающие много вопросов, редко возвращаются оттуда живыми…

“A dramatic crime chase in Gothenburg, intelligently and excitingly told.” – Der Spiegel (Germany) “[Here is] the opportunity to discover a Swede well removed from the ‘Swedish model’ and enter into the world of Åke Edwardson. Try this voyage, and you will return to it.” – Marianne (France) “An extremely accomplished cross between crime fiction and psychological thriller… on par with P. D. James.” – Helsingborgs Dagblad (Sweden) “Masterful… While Åke Edwardson possesses an undertone of humor, his work is full of darkness… With The Shadow Woman [he] establishes himself among the most exciting crime thriller writers in the country.” – Motala Vadstena Tidning (Sweden) “Erik Winter could be...

“Sail of Stone is riveting-as hard and bleak as the Swedish coast in winter.” – Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Dexter series A brother and sister believe that their father has gone missing. They think he may have traveled in search of his father, who was presumed lost decades ago in World War II. Meanwhile, there are reports that a woman is being abused, but she can’t be found and her family won’t tell the police where she is. Two missing people and two very different families combine in this dynamic and suspenseful mystery by the Swedish master Åke Edwardson. Gothenburg’s Chief Inspector Erik Winter travels to Scotland in search of the missing man, aided there by an old friend from Scotland...

Where SUN AND SHADOW took place in the cold of winter, NEVER END takes the seasonally diametrically opposite milieu of a summer heatwave, making the book perfect beach holiday reading. The inappropriately named Chief Inspector Erik Winter is called in to investigate an attack on a teenage girl returning home after enjoying the weather at the local beauty spot. The girl seems reluctant to reveal much about her ordeal, only reporting it to the police after destroying vital evidence. After a second, more serious attack, Winter realises the crimes are similar to an unsolved case from years ago in which a girl was killed, which has always haunted him. He has kept in touch with the parents of the...

The debut thriller in the internationally acclaimed series – available for the first time in the United States A long-time number one bestseller in his native Sweden, Åke Edwardson's profile was conspicuously raised when his novel Frozen Tracks was chosen as a finalist for a 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Until now, however, the novel that launched Edwardson's critically acclaimed Erik Winter series has never been available in the United States. With a new series translator who fully captures Edwardson's signature atmospheric style, Death Angels is America's introduction to Sweden's youngest Chief Inspector as he teams up with Scotland Yard to solve the mysterious parallel killings of...

From the land of the midnight sun, a compelling and dark thriller by a master of crime fiction The autumn gloom comes quickly on the Swedish city of Gothenburg, and for Detective Inspector Erik Winter the days seem even shorter, the nights bleaker, when he is faced with two seemingly unrelated sets of perplexing crimes. The investigation of a series of assaults and a string of child abductions take Winter to "the flats," the barren prairies of rural Sweden whose wastelands conceal crimes as sinister as the land itself. Winter must deduce the labyrinthine connections between the cases before it is too late and his own family comes into danger. Stylish, haunting, and psychologically astute,...