Anders Roslund

An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier.

Serial killer and child molester Bernt Lund escapes from prison custody, leading Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens to the most disturbing case of his career. Bernt Lund is an unrepentant child molester and serial killer. In the mind of society, in the minds of his victims' parents, and in the minds of his fellow inmates, he is a waking nightmare. And now he has escaped from custody, the worst scenario imaginable for Aspsås Prison's Department for Sexual Crimes. During the course of one long, hot summer Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens will encounter the most profoundly appalling case in his career.

"Bath is a town layered in history: Roman, Medieval, Georgian. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is a bluff, old-fashioned policeman. When he is presented with a skeletal hand, dug up in the course of renovations taking place in the vault under the Pump Room, he assumes it is merely of archaeological interest. But when the bones prove to be modern, Diamond must dig further.". "His inquiries cross those of an visiting American academic. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written in Bath, in the house right next to the Pump Room vault. Can that fact have a bearing on a modern murder . . . or murders?"--BOOK JACKET.

"Presumed dead by the Stockholm police -- with a couple of notable exceptions, including homicide detective Ewert Grens -- master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in South America. Hoffmann stays in touch with his former police handler, Erik Wilson, but unfortunately there is no money to be had in maintaining his unofficial connection to the Swedish police. Instead, he accepts two lucrative jobs that make good use of his experience as a double-agent in Europe's drug wars: he is recruited as a high-level enforcer for a Colombian cocaine cartel and simultaneously accepts an offer from the DEA to work as an infiltrator to bring the cartel down. The FBI even lends credence to his cover story by adding Piet's alias to the Most Wanted List. But when the Speaker of the House of Representatives is kidnapped by the cartel during an official visit to Colombia, everything changes--fast. Suddenly, Piet is party to the highest-profile kidnapping of an American political figure in history and therefore directly in the firing line in what is quickly dubbed "the Next War on Terror" by the media. Both the drug cartel and the DEA agents in charge of the case in Colombia expect Piet's loyalty, but everything he does risks his relationship with the other side. Soon enough, despite his best efforts to stay on top of the game, both sides want him dead, and he is desperate for a helping hand. A glimmer of hope comes from an unexpected corner, for dogged, stubborn detective Ewert Grens has figured out where Piet has been hiding for the past few years. But even if he gets to Piet in time, will it be enough to save the double agent's life?"-- "The long-awaited, stand-alone sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Three Seconds, featuring homicide detective Ewert Grens and master criminal Piet Hoffmann"--

Czterdzieści troje przestraszonych, głodnych, zaniedbanych rumuńskich dzieci porzuconych w samym środku Sztokholmu. Ciało zakłutej nożem kobiety z twarzą zjedzoną przez szczury znalezione w podziemiach szpitala. Przytłoczony masą bieżących dochodzeń i prześladowany wyrzutami sumienia z powodu wypadku, który kiedyś spowodował, inspektor Evert Grens bez entuzjazmu przystępuje do uczestnictwa w kolejnych dwóch śledztwach. Poprowadzi je razem z młodą policjantką Marianą Hermansson i komisarzem Svenem Sundkvistem. Okazuje się, że sprawa dzieci to odprysk większej, międzynarodowej afery, która wykracza poza granice Szwecji. Mają w niej udział agencje wywiadowcze. Tropy zabójstwa prowadzą do podziemnego świata Sztokholmu-- liczącego setki kilometrów systemu betonowych tuneli przebiegających pod ulicami miasta. Mieszkają w nich ludzie bezdomni, wykluczeni z normalnego życia, tworząc społeczność rządzącą się własnymi prawami. Chcąc dopaść mordercę, Evert i Sven muszą tam zejść. W tym samym czasie w kościele św. Klary pojawia się kilkunastoletnia dziewczyna; przez wiele godzin siedzi bez ruchu. Próby nawiązania z nią kontaktu okazują się bezowocne. Coś łączy ją z zabitą kobietą.

Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, THREE SECONDS is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström-heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. Piet Hoffman, a top secret operative for the Swedish police, is about to embark on his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating the Polish mafia, he's become a key player in their attempt to take over amphetamine distribution inside Sweden's prisons. To stop them from succeeding, he will have to go deep cover, posing as a prisoner inside the country's most notorious jail. But when a botched drug deal involving Hoffman results in a murder, the investigation is assigned to the brilliant but haunted Detective Inspector Ewert Grens--a man who never gives up until he's cracked the case. Grens's determination to find the killer not only threatens to expose Hoffman's true identity-it may reveal even bigger crimes involving the highest levels of power. And there are people who will do anything to stop him from discovering the truth. Winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' 2009 award for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, and a #1 best-seller there, THREE SECONDS captures a nefarious world of betrayal and violence, where a wise man trusts no one and even the most valuable agent can be “burned.”

Blood brothers Leon and Gabriel have spent their young lives establishing a formidable criminal enterprise known as the Warriors, which is now poised to secure domination in the area. DCI Ewert Grens is investigating a recent prison break from a maximum-security facility, and discovers that the incident is linked to the Warriors. José Pereira, head of the police's Organized Crime and Gang Section in a southern suburb of Stockholm, is facing a rapidly growing problem with juvenile gang crime. All four men are on a collision course, heading toward an explosive convergence, and a revelation powerful enough to tear each of them apart.