Leif G. W. Persson

A first entry in a trilogy inspired by the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme traces an investigation into an unknown American's death in Stockholm that reveals a complex web of espionage and intelligence failures.

The Story of a Crime

Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End

Kriminalroman. En ung kvinde findes myrdet af en ukendt gerningsmand. Romanen handler om politiets opklaringsarbejde og konsekvenserne heraf for de nærmeste

Linda - som i Lindamordet : roman om ett brott

en rövarroman

Grisfesten

en roman om ett brott

Faller fritt som i en dröm

"A galvanizing new thriller from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author--a stand-alone novel that finds legendary Swedish homicide detective Lars Martin Johansson racing against time to solve one final murder. In the National Criminal Investigation Department he was known as "the man who sees around corners." Now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind him. Or so he thinks. When he finds himself in the hospital having suffered a stroke, tests revealing heart problems as well, the only thing that saves him from despair is his doctor's interest in an unsolved murder case from years before. The victim was a nine-year-old girl, raped and strangled to death, and now Johansson determines to solve the crime despite his condition. He launches an informal investigation from his hospital bed--with the help of Matilda, a wannabe Lisbeth Salander, and Max, an orphan personally invested in child-abuse cases--and begins to draw a web of connections between sex tourism, a deceased opera singer, and a self-made millionaire. And as he draws closer to solving the crime, he finds that he is confronting not just a case, but his own mortality."

a mystery

The dying detective

Berättelsen om mitt yrkesliv

Professor Wille Vingmutter, mästerdetektiv

Gustavs grabb

Samhällsbärarna

Den som dödar draken

Winner of the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel 2014 In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Bäckström is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Bäckström is a man who has no sense of duty or responsibilty, thinks everyone with the exception of himself is an imbecile and is only really capable of warm feelings towards his pet goldfish and the nearest bottle of liquor. If they are to solve the case, his long suffering team must work around him, following the scant few leads which remain after Bäckström's intransigence has let the trail go cold. Blackly comic, thrillingly compelling and utterly real, Linda, As in the Linda Murder is the novel which introduces the reader to the modern masterpiece that is Evert Bäckström, a man described by his creator as 'short, fat and primitive'. He is, without doubt, the real deal when it comes to modern policing.

Linda, as in the Linda Murder

Den döende detektiven

Kan man dö tvaa gaanger?

Den sanna historien om Pinocchios näsa

Profitörerna

Retired Chief of the National Crime Police and Swedish Security Service Lars Martin Johansson has just suffered a stroke. He is paying the price for a life of excess - stress, good food and fine wine. With his dangerously high blood pressure, his heart could fail at the slightest excitement. In the hospital, a chance encounter with a neurologist provides an important piece of information about a 25-year-old murder investigation and alerts Lars Martin Johansson's irrepressible police instincts. The period for prosecution expired just weeks earlier and that isn't the only limitation. Lars Martin Johansson is determined to solve the atrocious crime - from his deathbed. The inimitable style, distinct voice and dark humour of Leif GW Persson, along with the fascinating exploration of a long-cold murder case, serves to make The Dying Detective a true masterpiece of the genre.

The Dying Detective

Det är måndagen den elfte maj när Lisa Mattei, operativ chef på Säkerhetspolisen, får ett telefonsamtal från sin chef. Ett al Shabaab-näste i Eskilstuna förbereder ett terrorattentat i Sverige. Närmare bestämt under Kungafamiljens nationaldagsfirande på Skansen. Mattei samlar kompetent folk kring sig och ett intensivt och metodiskt spaningsarbete börjar. Stämmer tipset? Finns det en mullvad inom Säpo? Måndagens telefonsamtal förändrar allt och sätter nationen i höjd beredskap. Bombmakaren och hans kvinna utkom för första gången 2015.

Bombmakaren och hans kvinna

Beginning with the death of an unknown American citizen in Stockholm, Persson slowly unravels the complex web of international espionage, greed, sheer incompetence, and work by a poorly constructed Swedish intelligence force that in this fiction lead to the murder of the Swedish prime minister Olaf Palme.

Stockholm, 1999. Lars Johannson, a new recruit to the Swedish Security Police, has reopened the files on one of the most renowned cases in Swedish history - the 1975 siege of the West German embassy. Back in 1989, the murder of a Swedish civil servant was covered up by corrupt officials, but ten years later Detectives Anna Holt and Bo Jarnebring are still not prepared to let it lie. Working with Lars, they discover a network of corruption and greed that permeates the very highest level of Swedish society. This astonishing thriller spans twenty-five years and hinges on the real-life, still-unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.

Leif G. W. Persson

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