Christoffer Carlsson Libri

Vero e proprio caso letterario in Svezia, Lo strano caso di Stoccolma è l’esordio fulminante del giovanissimo Christoffer Carlsson: un thriller psicologico che colpisce al cuore, una storia di segreti e ambiguità, ambientata negli oscuri meandri della capitale svedese. Vincent, giovane tossicodipendente e spacciatore, trascina i suoi giorni, stretto nell’abbraccio mortale della morfina, in uno squallido appartamento nei bassifondi di Stoccolma. La sua triste routine viene scossa quando il suo amico Marko gli lascia in casa una ragazza legata e bendata, picchiata a sangue, di cui Vincent non sa nulla tranne il nome: Maria Magdalena. A poco a poco tra i due giovani nasce un’inaspettata complicità… Il desiderio di salvare la sconosciuta porterà Vincent a lottare disperatamente contro la brutale violenza del mondo che lo circonda e lo costringerà a guardare in faccia, per la prima volta, un passato oscuro che non ha mai avuto il coraggio di affrontare. Ma fino a dove dovrà spingersi per scoprire il segreto della ragazza venuta dal nulla?

Detective Leo Junker thought he'd crossed his last line. But he's never learned to say no. So when an escaped criminal he knows all too well hands him a photo of a murdered prostitute, he reopens the cold case as a favour. Everyone's busy and everyone's got better things to do, but is there a darker reason that Angelica Reyes' death has languished unsolved for five years? As Leo's investigation pushes further into the past -- Sweden's, Angelica's, his own -- he'll come face to face with the corruption at the heart of things. Yet the reckoning may come too late -- not only for Angelica Reyes, but for everyone.

The third instalment in the internationally bestselling Leo Junker series Charles Levin -- Leo Junker's mentor -- is dead, shot in the back of the head in a premeditated attack. Now Leo must find out who killed him and, more importantly, why. Inspired by a string of scandals and murders that rocked Sweden in the 1980s, Nordic Noir superstar Christoffer Carlsson tells his own chilling version of what happened in those dark days.

"In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have raped a woman. I'm going to do it again, he says. Then the call cuts off. By the time policeman Sven Jörgensson reaches the victim, she's taking her last breath. For Sven and his son Vidar, this will prove a decisive moment. On the same night, Sweden plunges into a state of shock after the murder of the prime minister. Could there possibly be a connection? Two more women fall victim to the local serial killer without Sven being able to stop him. Over time Sven becomes obsessed with the case, while Vidar, longing to be closer to his father, joins the police. For years Sven remains haunted by the murders he cannot solve and paralyzed by fear that the killer might strike again. Eventually Sven retires in defeat from the police. Having failed to catch the murderer, he passes his obsession to his son. Many years later, the case unexpectedly resurfaces when a novelist returns home to Halland after a failed marriage and sputtering career. The writer befriends a retired police officer, a former colleague of Sven's, who helps the novelist--our narrator--unspool the many strands of this engrossing tale about a community confronting its collective guilt"--

The second instalment in the internationally bestselling Leo Junker series.

When a young woman is shot dead in his apartment block, disgraced former police officer Leo Junker is one of the first on the scene. Examining the dead body, he notices that the woman is clasping a cheap necklace - a necklace he instantly recognises. Despite being warned off the case, Leo sets out on a rogue investigation to catch the killer, uncovering a series of frightening connections between the murder and his own troubled youth in Salem, and forcing him to confront a long ago incident that changed his life forever.

WINNER OF THE 2016 BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNG READERS, SWEDISH CRIME WRITERS ACADEMY Vega Gilbert is 16 years old when the police come knocking on the door looking for her older brother, Jakob. Vega hasn't heard from him in days, but she has to find him before the police do. Jakob was involved in a terrible crime. What no one knows is that Vega was there, too. In the rural Swedish community where the Gillbergs live, life is tough, the people are even tougher, and old feuds never die. As Vega sets out to find her brother, she must survive a series of threatening encounters in a deadly landscape. As if that wasn't enough, she's dealing with the longing she feels for a boy that she has sworn to forget, and the mixed-up feelings she has for her brother's best friend. During a damp, raw week in October, the door to the adult world swings open, and Vega realises that once she has crossed the threshold there is no turning back. PRAISE FOR CHRISTOFFER CARLSSON 'The desolate landscape is the perfect backdrop for this taut tale of old family feuds and unfurling secrets.' The Irish Times ' ... And exciting it is. The seasoned crime writer Christoffer Carlsson always has intrigue under his control, and slowly turns up the mystery and drama.' Dagens Nyheter

Píše se rok 1986, zima se chýlí ke konci a do malé vesničky Marbäck v jižním Švédsku přiletí první konipas. Když však jindy tak radostnou předzvěst jara spatří policista Sven Jörgensson, ztuhne mu krev v žilách. Ví, že neštěstí na sebe nenechá dlouho čekat. Tentýž večer se svět převrátí vzhůru nohama v celém Švédsku. V centru Stockholmu je cestou z kina zavražděn švédský premiér, země je paralyzovaná šokem, a uprostřed chaosu se musí Sven na vlastní pěst vydat do temnoty Nyarsasenské pahorkatiny po stopách vyšinutého vraha. Udělám to znovu, varoval ho hlas v telefonu. A Sven nepochybuje, že svou výhrůžku myslel vážně. Kdo zasel hrůzu do kdysi tak bezpečného koutku švédského venkova? A kdo je spisovatel, který se o mnoho let později rozhodne příběh svěřit papíru? A proč nenechá přízraky minulosti raději spát? Román o zločinu, pravdě, vině a odpovědnosti v časech, kdy se Švédsko během jediné noci proměnilo k nepoznání

Jedné chladné listopadové noci v roce 1994 vyhoří jistý dům do základů. Uvnitř se najdou ostatky mladé ženy, zavražděné. Pro obyvatele jihošvédské vesničky Marbäck je to zlomový bod, od té chvíle se místní události dělí na ty „před požárem“ a „po požáru“. A pro malého Isaka Nyqvista a jeho rodinu se život změní navždy. Policie se rychle zaměří na Edvarda Christenssona, přítele zavražděné dívky a Isakova milovaného strýčka. Důkazy mluví samy za sebe a Edvard je odsouzen na doživotí. Život ve vsi jde dál a mladý policista Vidar Jörgensson je pyšný, že svou troškou přispěl k vyřešení vraždy. O devět let později se cesty Isaka Nyqvista a Vidara Jörgenssona opět zkříží a starý případ znovu ožívá, ale bude zapotřebí ještě hodně času, než se všechny nitky rozpletou a všechny kousky skládanky zapadnou na svá místa. 20 000 prodaných výtisků ve Švédsku během prvního měsíce. Práva prodána do 10 zemí.