Fiction in Translation

A man is found murdered in his Reykjav.ư̐ik flat, and the police have no obvious leads. The man lived alone and had no family. Erlendur and his colleague Sigurdur .ư̐Oli find a computer filled with pornography, and, in a desk, the photograph of a young girl's grave and the cryptic note left behin...

1304 and the church and the French crown are locked in a power struggle. In the Normandy countryside monks are brutally murdered and a poisoner is at large at the abbey. Young noblewoman Agnes de Souarcy fights to retain her independence but must face the Inquisition unaware that she is the focus...

The skeleton of a young woman is discovered, tied to a stone, in a lake deep in the Danish countryside. The woman's identity is a mystery; no one matching her description has been reported missing. After months of fruitless investigation by the local police force, a media scandal brings the case ...

Aspiring playwright Bror Telemann hates Germany. His wife, Nina, loves everything about it. So a family holiday at the foot of the Alps, south of Munich - which Bror insists is the birthplace of Nazism - is bound to cause tensions. Especially when Bror spends his whole time fantasising about his ...

Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian prime minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge?

Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits. The younger needs nursing and the older never dared to leave. Until one day a man arrives. The women realise quickly that only one can stay.

Leda, a middle-aged divorc.ư̐ee, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted.

Crestfallen, dejected, and spiralling into an alcohol-fueled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made his mind up to quit the force for good. But when an old acquaintance seeks Kurt's help to solve his father's suspicious death, he is soon back on the ...

Detective Carl M.ư̐orck has been promoted to lead the newly created Department Q, which deals with 'cases of special focus'. His first case is that of missing politician Merete Lynggaard. Everyone assumes she's dead. Everyone, that is, except Carl. Because Merete isn't dead - at least not yet.