THE FOLLOWER
Are you being followed or just paranoid? Do you dare look in the mirror and discover the truth?
A woman disappears without a trace in the Stockholm suburb of Bromma. No body is found until a macabre clue is discovered in a nearby garden. Why did the missing woman’s husband wait three days before reporting her missing?
Detective Inspector Emma Sköld gives her all to solve the case. On her own initiative, Emma’s sister, on her summer holiday from the police academy, helps Emma with her investigation but little does she know what she has gotten herself involved in.
GUARDIAN ANGEL
Is the person watching you the one you should fear the most, or is it your guardian angel?
The cherry trees are in full bloom, but police detective Emma Sköld is having trouble enjoying the approaching Easter holiday. Seven months have passed since her close colleague, Krille, disappeared without a trace. She is determined to find him, dead or alive. While police finally locate the debt collector who was the last one to see Krille alive, Emma is presented with a strange murder. An elderly man has been found dead in an abandoned mental institution. When his identity is revealed, Emma becomes obsessed with solving the case.
THE SCAPEGOAT
A wave of burglaries strikes the posh Stockholm suburb Bromma, and the criminals’ methods get all the more gruesome. When the murder of a teenage boy shakes up the entire area, Emma Sköld is called to take on the case. Was it a burglary that escalated to fatal violence?
Suspicions rise around the maid who found the dead body. Or is it the baltic guest worker who was arrested in the midst of a burglary attempt? Determined to solve the case, Emma Sköld takes matters in her own hands and puts herself and others in grave danger.
THE SCAPEGOAT is a contemporary thriller venturing into lies, secrets and revenge. How dire can the consequences be if you manipulate the truth?
THE PARASITE
SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023.
It is a hot summer day when the burnt remains of a body are found by Drottningholm Palace, just outside of Stockholm. Next to the victim, the police find a death list with five names. The last name reads Emma Sköld. An investigation is immediately started. At the same time, a twenty-year-old case unfolds, where a mother went to the emergency room with her infant but ended up in detention. What does the past have to do with the victim found by Drottningholm? Now it’s up to Emma and her colleagues to stop the killer before more names are crossed off the list.
THE LIAR
With summer just around the corner, Stockholm is more beautiful than ever. But the peace is about to be broken for Emma and her family.
On an early morning, a teenage boy is found dead in a wooded area in the suburb Bromma. The body is badly beaten, and his valuables are missing. Tension immediately runs high in the area and suspicions are directed towards some young boys from a nearby residential area.
Police detective Emma Sköld must solve the case before the killer strikes again, but she has a feeling that prejudice is getting in the way of finding the actual culprit. Are the boy’s friends and family trying to hide something from her?
THE BEGGAR
Why does someone want to see detective inspector Emma Sköld dead at any cost? And what connection is there with the deaths of several beggars in Stockholm?
The memorial service is moving. A young person has died under unfathomable circumstances. But in the background sits a person observing the mourners with a suspicious gaze. Someone who will do anything to stay hidden – even if the price is painfully high.
It is unpleasantly timely and frightfully engaging when beggars in Stockholm fall victim to what seems to be a psychopathic serial killer.
THE BEGGAR is a timely thriller on abuses of power affecting the most vulnerable persons in society.
THE SOULMATE
Stockholm is exploding in the warm colours of autumn. It is a striking view, but police detective Emma Sköld’s eyes fall on something else. A woman is balancing on the wrong side of the railing of a major bridge, holding a baby in her arms.
Emma must prevent the woman and infant from falling twenty-six meters down into the sea and a certain death. What has led her to this point? Emma Sköld and her colleagues face an intricate investigation in their most urgent case yet.
THE SOULMATE is the tenth book the popular crime series about police detective Emma Sköld.
SHAME
How well do we really know our loved ones?
In a posh suburb of Stockholm, a girl lays herself down on the tram rails and waits for the train to come. In another part of Sweden, a man finds himself alone in a deep grave in the woods. None of their close ones has a clue about the approaching catastrophe. Can their lives be saved? The two don’t know each other, but they share something vital. Now it’s up to Emma Sköld to find the connection between them before it’stoo late.
SKAMVRÅN is the anticipated seventh book in Sofie Sarenbrant’s series about police detective Emma Sköld.
THE BABYSITTER
When homicide detective Emma Sköld wakes up at the hospital, she has no idea what has happened. The last thing she remembers is leaving her four weeks old daughter with her boyfriend Kristoffer to go to the stable. Emma finds out that she has been in a coma for five months after a riding accident. While Emma was unconscious, Kristoffer’s ex-girlfriend Hillevi has taken the role as a substitute mother, a role she is not too keen on giving up. To keep an eye on Emma, Hillevi starts working at the hospital. As long as Emma is at the ICU the security is rigorous but when she is moved to ward 73 anyone can get close to her. She gets more and more convinced that a crime has been committed . Why would anyone want to hurt her?
KILLER DEAL
The morning after a house viewing in Bromma, Stockholm suburb, a father is found dead by his six-year old daughter Astrid. There are no signs of a break-in, and the murder weapon is one of the family's own kitchen knives. The only hint that someone from the outside might be involved is that Astrid claims a strange man stroked her cheek during the night.
Emma Sköld takes up the case. She suspects that the man's wife could be the culprit, but when more murders occur tied to viewings, her theory is turned on its head. What's the truth behind events in the ostensibly idyllic and prosperous residential area? And what is the connection between the victims?
KILLER DEAL was the most sold book in paperback in Sweden 2016.
SECOND WIND
Time is limited, the distance measurable, but the number of suspects and potential victims are infinite …So far Stockholm Marathon has been spared from deaths among its runners. But when the gun goes off for the 35th edition of the race everything is turned upside down. It is the 4th of July, but colder than on Christmas Eve. Right past the starting point of the marathon a man falls down unconscious and his life cannot be saved. Detective inspector Emma Sköld has her day off, but is at the race to cheer for her sister. When the lifeless body of a woman is found by the water, she is right at the scene. It soon becomes apparent that foul play was involved and that the woman has been murdered. Is there a killer among the runners? And if so, when will the next victim turn up?
REST IN PEACE
A famous actress is found unconscious in the women’s washing rooms at the Yasuragi Health Centre and shortly thereafter an older couple is discovered dead in room 327. Neither of the incidents appear to be anything but accidents, but hotel manager Peter Berg and vice president Nils Wedén still have a bad feeling.When yet another person is found dead, this time in the warm springs outside, there is no denying that there must be a connection between the deaths.Emma Sköld from the Nacka Police Department is put on the caseand she soon realises that this is no routine job. Will she be able to find the murderer before he reaps another victim?REST IN PEACE is the first book about the police Emma Sköld.
BEHIND YOUR BACK
You reveal all your secrets to a person who stands behind your back with a sharp pair of scissors in hand. Someone you don’t know, but who knows more about you than your own partner. Someone who doesn’t have to look you in the eyes. Someone who isn’t bound by professional secrecy. Don’t choose thewrong stylist.Nothing is the same at Stefano’s popular hair salon after Angelica starts working there. Jenny, who has long been pining for Stefano, notices how he now blindly obeys Angelica’s slightest hint.
Soon, however, customers with some connection to the salon start being found murdered. Accusations are thrown back and forth among the three stylists, but the truth is not revealed until it’s much too late.
INSTEAD OF YOU
Sixteen years have passed since a pregnant woman disappeared in Brantevik. The case has been closed for several years even though nobody actually knew what happened during that horrific summer week.
The police never managed to solve the mystery surrounding his whereabouts.
Today Agnes is living a seemingly peaceful family life in Stockholm with her husband and their daughter Nicole who is eighteen. But what Agnes doesn’t know is that her husband is cheating on her and that Nicole has travelled to Brantevik to discover the truth about her brother. But there are other people connected to the case that have also returned to the small fishing village and once Nicole realises what she has gotten herself into, it’s already too late.
WEEK 36
The Winters and the Malms have just experienced a rainy holiday week and the general mood is low. Best friends Johanna and Agnes are both pregnant and within a matter of weeks they will both become new mothers. In an attempt to end their vacation on a positive note the two couples decide to go for a karaoke night at the local pub by the harbour. But something goes terribly wrong and the others wake the next morning only to realise that Agnes is gone.
Agnes’ disappearance becomes the tabloid event of the week and both the police and the press are working on separate leads in order to solve the riddle. But it becomes a struggle against time and everything takes an unexpected turn when a dead woman is found washed ashore on a beach.
GOOD FRIDAY
It’s Good Friday and the season premiere of the popular talk show Frida-y. Spotlights fill the stage, the audience sits quietly in anticipation of what the evening has to offer. Backstage, a controversial guest is waiting, invited personally by the host, Frida von Engen. She wants to make sure to get high ratings for her comeback on screen and to once and for all consolidate her role as the most intriguing host with the most exciting show.
But in the middle of the show, which is a live broadcast, a masked person emerges from the shadows. A bomber vest is hidden under the hoodie. There is no doubt that the threat is real: “The doors are locked, no one gets out of here. If you interrupt the broadcast, everyone dies.”
FOREVER MY STAR
Finally, it’s the first day of the long-awaited horse riding camp that thirteen-year-old Mira has been eagerly waiting for. She can’t wait to gallop with her favourite pony Moon across the meadows and enjoy a picnic with her friend Melvin. But the test ride doesn’t go as planned and Mira ends up with another horse. To make things worse, Melvin would rather hang out with a boy who lives on the farm.
In the third book of the Mira and Moon series, Mira still struggles to fit in and find her place. And to make a change when things don’t go her way. She tries to learn that things can still be good after all. Or even better.
THE BIRTHDAY
It’s a beautiful morning when Samuel’s mother, his father and his new stepmother gather to celebrate his seventh birthday. Together they arrange the cake, light the candles and head to Samuel’s room singing. But as the door opens, silence falls. Samuel’s bed is empty, the window wide open. Police are quickly called and a heavily publicized search operation begins. But as the hours go by, questions and suspicions arise – the atmosphere between ex-wife, father and stepmother thickens. When the corpse of a family member is discovered, the situation escalates. All three would have an interest to get Samuel out of the way, but their stories just don’t add up. What really happened the night before?
A HEART OF GOLD
Young Mira feels most comfortable in the stables, where she has befriended the stable horse, Moon. She feels that Moon understands her more than anyone, even though he has four legs and eats hay. Mira dreams of racing him, and it becomes now or never because soon she will grow too big to ride Moon for competition.
With each riding lesson, Mira becomes a better and safer rider. But one day, the happy Moon is bouncier than usual, and as they are about to practice jump, it leads Mira into an accident. She then decides to stop riding. Will Mira still find her way back to her best friend?
YOU'RE AN ANGEL
It’s autumn break, and Mira plans to work extra hours at the riding school. There she encounters her favourite pony, Moon, who is always happy and hunting for treats. Moon also who helps her take her mind off her grandmother’s passing.
But work is harder than she had expected.
When Mira accompanies the others from the stable to an amusement park on Halloween, she doesn’t know if she dares to enter the haunted house. Then again, what’s the worst thing that could happen?
YOU´RE AN ANGEL is the fourth book in the series about Mira and Moon. Who is it that makes sure she has a guardian angel when an accident occurs?
A FRIEND FOR LIFE
The only place thirteen-year-old Mira feels at home is in the horse stable. In school, she is treated as if she wasn’t even there, and her social inabilities excludes her from her classmates. Although the riding classes are challenging, it is among the horses that Mira finds refuge.
Moon is the most beautiful and popular pony at the riding school, but after being injured, he is left abandoned. That is until Mira steps in. She secretly starts to take care of Moon, and soon they grow a strong bond. But Mira is afraid that Annie, the best rider who always competes with Moon, will find out about their secret and put a stop to it, separating Mira and Moon