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The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods. The boys' gruesome discovery will once again connect Nora with her childhood friend Thomas Andreasson, now a local police detective.

The body of world-famous journalist Jeanette Thiels is discovered the day after Christmas, frozen in a snow-covered garden just steps from her hotel on Sandhamn Island. Detective Thomas Andreasson finds it highly unlikely that it was some bizarre accident. After all, the relentless war-zone correspondent was no stranger to conflict and controversy - both professional and, of late, very personal. Who would want to see her dead is another story.

On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified the deceased as Krister Berggren, a bachelor from the mainland who has been missing for months. All signs point to an accident - until another brutalized corpse is found at the local bed-and-breakfast.

Soon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she's asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation. Marcus Nielsen, a university student, has apparently committed suicide, but it's what he's left behind that's so suspicious and damning: his research into the Coastal Rangers, an elite military group where, in 1977, a young cadet died under questionable circumstances, a sadistic sergeant went free, and a case went cold.

A woman’s skeletal remains are excavated on an uninhabited island in Sandhamn’s archipelago, and Thomas Andreasson is called to officially investigate. But his best friend, Nora Linde, can’t help but get involved. On leave after her last case took a dark turn, Nora is tortured by depression, nightmares, and guilt. Her marriage fractured, her pride chipped away, Nora could find redemption in this investigation.

Oscar Juliander was a rich lawyer and deputy chairman of the prestigious Royal Swedish Yacht Club. While at first his death seems like a tragic accident, there is evidence of foul play. Police detective Thomas Andreasson teams up with local lawyer Nora Linde to investigate. As they work to uncover clues, they face resistance from an elite world where nothing but appearance matters.

In the Swedish ski resort of Åre, crime is rare. Certainly nothing so brutal as the murder of Johan Andersson, a former Olympic skier found bound and beaten to death in the forest. According to his distraught wife, he didn’t have any enemies in the world. To Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog, the crime proves otherwise. But what could have provoked such rage? And in whom?

On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.

Sandhamn Island’s archipelago is a beautiful place to visit. For a mother on the run, it’s the only place to hide in a novel of escalating suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Still Waters.

The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten Jonsson. It’s a nightmare for the locals. The venture capitalist has flouted local traditions, property lines, and the natural beauty of the coastline. He’s also too wealthy and arrogant to heed the anonymous warnings to leave. The threats escalate when his guest lodge is burned to the ground and an unidentifiable corpse is found in the charred ruins.

With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it something more ominous?

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected.

Es ist kurz vor Weihnachten, als Hanna Ahlander, 34, von ihrem Chef dazu gedrängt wird, den Dienst bei der Stockholmer Polizei zu quittieren. Als wäre das nicht genug, verlässt sie auch ihr Freund. Das Ferienhaus ihrer Schwester in Åre, dem ältesten Alpingebiet Schwedens, kommt da gerade recht. Während Hanna noch ihre Wunden leckt, erreicht sie die Meldung über eine junge Frau, die nach einer Party spurlos verschwunden ist. Eine Suchaktion wird gestartet, bei minus 20 Grad zählt jede Minute.

Es sind Ferien und in Åre herrscht Hochsaison. Das edelste Designhotel im Ort, die Copperhill Mountain Lodge, ist komplett ausgebucht. Doch dann findet das Personal eine Frau, die in der schönsten Suite des Hotels brutal erstochen wurde. Charlotte Wretlind wurde die Kehle durchgeschnitten, das Bett ist klebrig von Blut. Panik breitet sich in der Gegend aus, Daniel Lindskog und seine Kollegin Hanna Ahlander übernehmen sofort den Fall.

Une froide journée de septembre, l'étudiant Marcus Nielsen est retrouvé mort dans son appartement de Nacka. Tout semble indiquer un suicide. Mais sa mère, convaincue qu'il a été assassiné, supplie la police de ne pas classer l'affaire. Quand l'inspecteur Thomas Andreasson commence à enquêter, les pistes semblent mener à la base militaire de Korsö, devant l'île de Sandhamn, où le corps d'un autre homme vient d'être retrouvé. Contactée par Thomas, Nora Linde, qui passe beaucoup de temps sur l'île, essaie d'en savoir plus sur cette base fortifiée où ont été formées les unités d'élite des chasseurs côtiers.

C'est l'hiver sur l'île de Sandhamn. La tempête de neige qui fait rage contraint les habitants à rester chez eux. Un matin, on découvre le cadavre d'une femme sur la plage : la célèbre correspondante de guerre Jeanette Thiels était connue pour son franc-parler avec certaines personnalités influentes, issues notamment du parti xénophobe Nouvelle Suède. Crime politique ou vengeance personnelle masquée ? L'inspecteur Thomas Andreasson n'a pas le temps de répondre qu'un nouveau meurtre a lieu.

Winterferien in Åre. In der besinnlichsten Zeit des Jahres wird außerhalb des Dorfes eine Männerleiche gefunden. Das Opfer wurde schwer misshandelt. Doch der Mord gibt Rätsel auf: Das Opfer hatte scheinbar keine Feinde. Als in einem der umliegenden Dörfer die Frau eines freikirchlichen Pastors verschwindet, geraten Hanna Ahlander und Daniel Lindskog unter Druck. Die Gesuchte ist hochschwanger. Und sie braucht Medikamente.

Ein spannender, sommerheller Krimi aus dem schwedischen Schärengarten. Am Strand von Sandhamn, einer kleinen Insel im Schärengarten vor Stockholm, wird an einem heißen Julitag die Leiche eines Mannes angespült. Thomas Andreasson übernimmt den Fall und trifft auf Sandhamn seine Jugendfreundin Nora wieder, die auf der beliebten Urlaubsinsel Ferien macht. Als eine Woche später ein weiterer Mord begangen wird, gerät die Idylle vollends in Gefahr... Der erste Band einer Reihe von Sandhamn-Krimis mit Kriminalkommissar Thomas Andreasson und Juristin Nora Linde.

Nora Linde, désormais en poste à l'Agence de Lutte contre la Criminalité Financière, profite de ses vacances à Sandhamn avec son compagnon Jonas et leur fille de quatre ans Julia. Mais l'idylle estivale est vite troublée par l'arrivée de Carsten Larsson, un requin de la finance engagé dans des affaires troubles en Russie. Larsson a acheté la belle et grande plage au sud de l'île, et la villa de luxe qu'il y a fait bâtir éveille les rancœurs des insulaires.

Par une belle journée de juillet, une foule impatiente assiste au départ du Tour de Gotland, la plus importante régate d'Europe du nord. Mais le voilier qui fait la course en tête abandonne soudainement. Son skipper, le vice-président de la prestigieuse Royal Swedish Yachting Society, vient d'être abattu. Et si cet avocat très médiatique, père de famille respectable, n'était pas celui que l'on croit ? Maîtresse bafouée, concurrent jaloux... la liste des suspects s'allonge au fur et à mesure d'une enquête délicate.