Fiction in Translation

Eli Larsen is a talented author and film-maker. She writes books. She directs films. She wins awards. She is a success. But Eli has a secret. Since she was a child she has shared her life with Espen, Erik, Prins Eugen and Emil - or, rather, with their voices. Sometimes they're friendly, sometimes...

At the war's end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. But that was two decades ago. Now it is 1963, and the city's streets, once cratered are smooth and paved. Shiny new stores replace scorched rubble. For 24-year-old Eva Bruhn, World War II is a foggy childh...

Salander is plotting her revenge against the man who tried to kill her and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in intensive care and is set to face trial for three murders. Can she prove he...

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two journalists from Millennium magazine about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Meanwhile, Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe that she is guilty.

40 years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Convinced that she was murdered, her uncle hires Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of murders,...

On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, besides which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the gun brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dul...

Deadly professional assassin Martin Terrier returns to Paris after his latest job determined to get out of the game. Ten years ago he made a promise to return to his childhood sweetheart in the south of France. But circumstances put Martin's attempted retirement on hold: a key target is flying in...

A Swedish county commissioner walks out of a high level meeting & disappears. Many years later the missing man is glimpsed in India. How can this be connected with the gruesome discovery of a severed foot in the man's home town? Ann Lindell sets out to uncover the truth behind both cases.

On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called ...

In a crumbling colonial mansion besieged by slums in the old quarter of Algiers, Lamia lives a life of isolation, communing only with her ghosts by day, working as a paediatrician by day. Her family are dead, but for her beloved brother Sofiane. Lamia's tranquil existence is turned upside-down wh...