In a village nestling at the foot of a snowy mountain in Lapland, Constable Torsson receives a phone call from an outlying district. He skis off to investigate the death of a teacher following a drunken brawl. The dark deeds of winter finally come to ligh
On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime
Ekman's central character is Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal. The novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets
Set in a Swedish village about to enter the modern age, the story begins in the 1870s, as an excited and suspicious citizenry await the first train to arrive at their newly constructed station. We're introduced gradually to a townful of hardy and endearin
In the heart of the countryside, a young puppy leaves his home to follow his mother & master. But away from the safe haven of the farm, the puppy soon becomes lost and is left to struggle for survival in the wild. The puppy becomes wild, trusting no h
When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is ill prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated territ
"I Hjalmar Söderbergs Doktor Glas läste jag om den livgiriga skuggan på väggen som tar mannens liv och börjar leva på egen hand. Ett ont liv. Man kan också ta en annan människas liv med kaliumcyanid. Som Tyko Glas gjorde. Hur kommer man därhän?
