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The Maidenstone 

Jungfrustenen 

The Maidenstone 

by Michael Mortimer (pseudonym) 

Autumn 2013, 438 pages 

Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus, Peter Karlssom 

Rights sold to: 

Bruna, Netherlands • Destino, Spain 

Btb, Germany • Modtryk, Denmark 

KRP Yayincilik,Turkey 

Available material: 

Catalogue 

Sample translation in English 

Full English translation available in January 2014 

In 1769, Carl von Linné’s disciple Daniel Solander 

makes a remarkable discovery during his 

voyage around the world with Captain Cook. 

In New Zealand, Solander finds a stone with 

extraordinary properties that challenges 

his masters view of nature, and it is therefore 

hidden away. The stone breaks into four 

pieces, and during the course of history the 

pieces end up in the hands of, among others, 

Niels Bohr, Greta Garbo and Joseph Stalin. 

More than 200 years later, student Ida Nordlund 

receives a strange phone call from her 

grandmother Alma in Moscow. Alma asks Ida 

to look after a box, which she will receive at 

the Nobel Award ceremony. But something 

goes wrong and the courier bringing the box, 

Nobel Prize Laureate Anatoly Lobov, dies 

under spectacular circumstances. Soon Ida is 

sought not only by the police, but also by a 

secret network of scientists who are willing 

to do anything to obtain the enigmatic box. 

Ida makes an abrupt escape from Stockholm 

and seeks help from her foster dad Lasse. 

Together they are chased in a thriller-like 

tempo through northern Sweden, through 

Finland, and finally they end up in Russia, 

with Grandma Alma, who is carrying a dark 

secret. 

What kind of stone did Solander find? What 

did Linné hide inside those freshwater pearl 

mussels in the north of Finland? And why 

was Ida deserted by her mother Eva, who disappeared 

so many years ago? 

Prepare for an adventure out of the ordinary. 

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Fossildrottningen 

The Escape from Paradise 

by Michael Mortimer (pseudonym) 

Spring 2014, 509 pages 

Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus, Peter Karlsson 


Bruna, Netherlands • Destino, Spain 

Btb, Germany • Modtryk, Denmark 

KRP Yayincilik,Turkey (option) 

The Escape from Paradise 

In November 1932, Nadezhda Alliluyeva takes 

her own life, broken by the unhappy marriage 

with Joseph Stalin. In a fit of grief and rage Stalin 

takes her gun and farewell letter, along with 

a stone he got her as a present, and orders them 

to be kept secret until the end of times. 

Ida, Alma and Lasse take to Moscow to search 

for old Soviet files at a governmental archive 

inside the Kremlin, and there they find the 

so called “Stalin Stone” – a stone that fit together 

with the Maidenstone. 

After leaving Moscow, Alma, Lasse and Ida 

cross the border to Ukraine and enter the 

forbidden zone surrounding Pripyat, by the 

Chernobyl nuclear plant. This is where Ida’s 

mother Eva has been living since disappearing 

when Ida was a small child; a place she 

calls “Paradise”, surrounded by the richest 

fauna in all of Europe – where predators and 

other animals have flourished in the absence 

of man. 

But Eva’s house is deserted, and instead they 

are caught by a network of scientists who are 

also after the stones. But the trio manages 

to escape and take a third stone with them 

from the network. 

Now only the fourth piece remains; a stone 

that once belonged to Johann Wolfgang von 

Goethe, the German poet and mineralogist, 

and clues to its whereabouts are found in a 

curious text about a place where “the wrath 

of God never subsides”. The hunt continues 

to Rome and to Vatican City. Will our heroes 

manage to get hold of the last stone – and 

piece the four together in order to create the 

Queen Fossil? 

The scientific adventure continues. 






crime Fiction 

Populisten 

The Populist 

by Thomas Bodström 

May 2013, 392 pages 

Senior Editor: Eva Gedin 

Option publishers: 

Heyne, Germany 

Pegasus, Turkey 

EMPIK, Poland 

The Populist 

Disaster strikes as the Government Offices is 

under a hacker attack, the entire country is on 

the verge of a breakdown and it is up to Mattias 

Berglund to save the day. 

Populisten is the fourth and final book in 

the series about attorney Mattias Berglund, 

County Bureau of Investigation officer Susanne 

Dahlgren and Minister for Justice 

Gerd Lundin. 

Mattias is newly divorced and has moved in 

with Susanne, who has now made a career 

and works as Gerd Lundin’s vice-minister for 

justice. When defending a pastor who claims 

to have been wrongfully accused of wifebeating, 

Mattias begins, for the first time, to 

have doubts about his profession. Things are 

further complicated when another one of 

his clients, a homeless drug addict, dies in a 

mysterious accident. Gerd has an uncomfortable 

feeling of being followed and Susanne 

learns what it’s like when journalists mercilessly 

pursue politicians. 

When a government office becomes the target 

of a hacker attack, catastrophe is a fact. 

The entire country is on the verge of a breakdown. 

Thomas Bodström’s track record shows great 

versatility: Premier Division football player, 

lawyer and Minister of Justice 2000 - 2006. 

With unique insight into Sweden’s power 

elite, Thomas Bodström gives us a sharp illustration 

of a populism that is spreading 

like poison in all quarters of media, politics 

and the judicial system. 

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Rymmaren 

The Escapee 




German translation available. 

When a brutal murder is committed at the Österåker correctional 

facility, Miro understands that his turn is next. The victim 

was his cousin Vlado, and now there are only two thoughts in 

his head: to escape and to exact revenge. The minister of justice 

and the director of the national prisons and probation administration 

also play central roles in this action-packed plot. 

Idealisten 

The Idealist 


April 2009, 368 pages 



Carlos, a young politician with an immigrant background, starts 

a petition against racism together with a fellow colleague. They 

are both members of the parliamentary Standing Committee 

on Justice. When Carlos is brutally shot down outside his house, 

suspicion is immediately cast on rightwing extremist Carl 

Struwe and his racist supporters. 

Lobbyisten 

The Lobbyist 





It is 2014 and three weeks before the national parliamentary 

elections. The party alliances and their lobbyists make use of 

the media to throw dirt at each other. In the third part of the 

series, the political game is more cynical and violent than ever. 

An exciting and satirical description of how far one can go to be 

faithful to one’s political party. 






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Denise Rudberg 

Born in 1971, author and columnist 

Denise Rudberg lives in Stockholm. After 

studying Film and Dramaturgy in New 

York, she has made a successful career as 

an author in Sweden. Her literary production 

includes, besides the Marianne Jidhoff 

series, two loosely built-up trilogies 

of chick-lit novels as well as two suites of 

YA books. 

Elegant Crime 

‘Elegant Crime’ is Denise Rudberg’s new genre, 

serving crime stories set in an upper-class environment, 

with fancy dinners, designer dresses 

and slightly bored housewives in posh suburbs. 

Welcome to an exciting world filled with power, 

money, extravagance and decadence. 

Meet Marianne Jidhoff, 55, Prosecution 

Secretary and recently widowed. After her 

husband’s death, Marianne is persuaded to 

return to the Public Prosecution Office. 

Together with experienced Detective Chief 

Inspector Torsten Ehn and the young talented 

Detective Inspector Augustin Madrid, 

they form an unconventional team set to 

investigating high profiled crimes. In this 

Elegant Crime Series, we follow them on 

their journeys, both their professional and 

their personal ones. 

Ett litet snedsprång spent seven months on 

the national bestseller list, as hardcover and 

pocket, and has sold more than 140 000 copies 

to date. Två gånger är en vana also spent 

several months on the national bestseller list, 

and has sold more than 130 000 copies so far. 


Catalogue 

Sample translation in English 


Cappelen Damm, Norway 


Amazon, World English 

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Ett litet snedsprång 

Stepping Over the Line 

by Denise Rudberg 

August 2010, 426 pages 

Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus 

There have been leaks within the Public Prosecution Office, and 

Olle Lundqvist, Chief Prosecutor, needs someone he can trust, 

and with experience, for his team. He persuades Marianne Jidhoff 

to come back to work, and together with Torsten Ehn and 

Augustin Madrid she starts investigating the macabre death of 

a leading figure within the financial world. 

Två gånger är en vana 

Twice is a Habit 


September 2011, 372 pages 


During the Christmas’ holidays, a strange assault occurs at the 

well-reputed investment company The Chinese Wall. One of 

the senior partners is found in the office severely injured. Marianne 

Jidhoff and the team are handed the case and slowly, but 

surely, an increasingly horrifying image of systematic patriarchal 

abuse is unfolded. 

Bara tre kan leka så 

Only Three Can Play That Game 




A highly placed and popular politician is found murdered in 

his home in central Stockholm. The very same day, two women 

living close by mysteriously disappear. Could the cases be connected? 

Marianne Jidhoff, Torsten Ehn and Augustin Madrid 

are determined to untangle the mysteries. 






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Robert Kviby 

Robert Kviby, born 1976, is a full-time 

writer and lives in Stockholm. Previously 

he has worked as a market manager in a 

major media company. 

He made his debut in 2012 with De korrupta, 

the first title in the series about Annie 

and Max Lander. 

The Lander Series 

“They were all prostitutes. All under thirty. 

Found in wooded areas and parks. Naked. They 

had been killed elsewhere and dumped where 

their bodies were discovered. She was convinced 

it was systematic. All four of them had met the 

same man, and it had led to their deaths.” 

In 2012, Robert Kviby made his literary debut 

with the crime novel De korrupta, where 

we meet the married couple Annie and Max 

Lander. Through Annie’s journalistic investigations 

and her strong character, Annie and 

Max end up as pawns in a corrupt game run 

between powerful corporate magnates and 

the Yugoslavian mafia. Since publication, De 

korrupta has sold more than 42 000 copies. 

In the sequel, Listan, we follow Annie and 

Max again on their crusade against the corrupt. 

False accusations have been keeping 

them on the run and away from their loved 

ones for years. In their pursuit of the truth, 

they find evidence of how multi-national 

companies benefit from horrible crimes 

of war, raising the stakes of the game even 

more. Will they finally be able to clear their 

names? 

The Lander Series serves a thrilling read 

from the first page and on. 


Rowohlt, Germany 

Albatros, Poland 


Catalogue 

Sample translation and summary in English 

German translation 

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De korrupta 

The Corrupt 

by Robert Kviby 

February 2012, 311 pages 

Senior Editor: Annika Seward-Jensen, Telegram 

January 1989, criminal reporter Annie Lander has for 

some time been working on a story about four murdered 

prostitutes, convinced that there is a pattern. 

Annie is starting to get close, to the real story about 

the women, as well as to the truth about the unsolved 

murder of her mother. And then suddenly she is gone, 

and it is up to her husband Max to find her. 

Listan 

The List 

by Robert Kviby 

Summer 2013, 330 pages 

Senior Editor: Annika Seward-Jensen, Telegram 

Eight years later, December 1997, Annie and Max 

have been on the run for years, hiding from the police 

and from Annie’s psychopathic half-brother. In 

Patras, Greece, they are traced by an American journalist, 

who claims to have proof that mercenaries 

partaking in the Balkan wars may have been involved 

in systematic rape of Bosnian girls. And some of the 

mercenaries might be Swedes. With an unknown hit 

man on their tail, the trio goes on a quest to expose 

the truth before time runs out on their freedom. 

LISTAN 






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Hans Koppel 

Petter Lidbeck, born in 1964, lives in 

Stockholm. Under the pseudonym Hans 

Koppel he has previously published three 

satirical novels about the Swedish middle 

class of today. 

Kommer aldrig mer igen/Never coming back 

was his first thriller in a planned trilogy. 

The stand alone sequel Kom ska vi tycka 

om varandra/You’re Mine Now was published 

in Sweden in October 2012 and the 

third and final instalment of the series is 

scheduled for autumn 2013. 

Press voices for Hans Koppel 

“Naturally Hans Koppel, alias Petter Lidbeck, 

should use his swift-minded punchy 

stile to write crime novels.” Dagens Nyheter 

“Koppel is a very fine writer but it’s as a 

machine perfectly designed to provoke compulsive 

page-turning that makes this book 

so sensational. I read it in two long sessions 

and if you’re the sort of person who doesn’t 

need much sleep, you’ll do it in one.” 

Morning Star (UK) 

“A supremely professional piece of work with 

a palpable sense of tension, and couched in 

unvarnished prose.” The Independent (UK) 

“crisp and simple yet devastatingly effective, 

this is an unrelenting, terrifying slab of 

a psychological thriller which ticks all the 

right boxes.” Daily Mirror (UK) 

“There are some fine stories out there and 

this is probably one of the best.” 

612 ABC Brisbane Radio (AUS) 

“It is exciting and there aren’t many superfluous 

scenes here. It reminds me of Hitchcock’s 

devilishly effective paranoia films /.../ 

Lidbeck/Koppel has a sure sense of style, not 

least when it comes to a genre where most 

Swedish thriller-writers fail: to write entertaining 

and hard-hitting dialogue which also 

moves the plot along.” Helsingborgs Dagblad 

“An ice-cold and cleverly composed thriller 

on guilt and revenge.” Sydsvenskan 

“It is exciting from the first page to the last. 

The author builds up an infernal and nailbiting 

dramatic situation.” DAST Magazine 

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Little, Brown, UK 

Pegasus, US 

Bruna, the Netherlands 

Heyne, Germany 

Presses de la Cité, France 

Piemme, Italy 

Planeta, Spain 

Ayrinti, Turkey 

Eurasian, Taiwan 

Weltbild/Swiat Ksiazki, Poland 

Front Forlag, Norway 

People’s Press, Denmark 

Verus/Record, Brazil 

CITIC Press, China 

Mladá Fronta, Czech Republic 

“Lidbeck is a skilled writer.” Expressen 

“If you like your books on the gritty and violent 

side – it really isn’t pretty in that cellar 

– then why not try this harrowing tale of 

bitter revenge.” 

Peterborough Evening Telegraph (UK) 

“Hans Koppel’s crime thriller is skilfully 

construed and sometimes really, really scary 

/.../ Revenge is not just sweet; it can also be 

very, very raw – which Hans Koppel proves 

to me in his new thriller. /.../ I am sucked 

into the exciting plot and can’t stop reading. 

I want more, more, more.” The Book of the 

Month, March 2011, Your Life Magazine 

“A dense thriller of the suspenseful type 

with an unexpected ending.” BTJ 

“Hans Koppel’s thriller debut is not for the 

faint of heart, because the Swedish author 

understands superbly how to spread fear and 

terror. He plays perfectly on the instruments 

of the genre and keeps up the tension literally 

until the last page.” Buchjournal (DE) 

“Just 24 hours with a break of six hours sleep 

– that’s all I needed to read Kommer aldrig 

mer igen. Despite it being a 350-page thick 

novel. But as soon as I had grabbed hold of 

Hans Koppel’s debut novel, stopping was no 

longer an option. The Scandinavian author 

has achieved an incredibly engrossing 

thriller that is selling like hot cakes in ten 

countries already.” Berliner Kurier (DE) 

“The detective novel is strongly reminiscent 

of the fate of Natascha Kampusch, who was 

also kidnapped and held prisoner in a small 

basement room for more than 3 069 days by 

her tormentors /.../ Hans Koppel presents in 

his debut thriller a psychological novel that 

skilfully mixes reality and fantasy into a dense 

fabric.” Siegener Zeitung (DE) 

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Om döda ont 

What Comes Around 

by Hans Koppel 


Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram 

Not final cover 


Catalogue 

English translations of Kommer aldrig mer igen and 

Kom ska vi tycka om varandra 

What Comes Around 

A man is left stranded at a motorway service 

station outside Gränna. His mate has taken the 

car and the money and simply left him there. 

Now their boss is on the way to pick him up and 

she is not pleased. It wasn’t a lot of cash, but she 

still has to set an example. The rest must learn 

what happens if they try to rip her off. 

Calle Collin is in Höganäs in the south of 

Sweden to do his usual kind of report – a 

heartbreaking portrait of someone’s loved 

one who passed away before their time, suitable 

for a family magazine. 

This time the story is about a 13 year-old kid 

who got killed in a hit-and-run many years 

ago, but Calle can’t really get a grip of what 

to write. The mother is still grieving and seems 

to have an unrealistic notion of who her 

son really was. The brother, now a grown-up 

looking like an anabolic crunching torpedo, 

says very little at all. And the brother’s girlfriend 

is giving Calle the creeps. Calle starts 

to look elsewhere for information and realises 

that very little positive is to say about the 

deceased. Still he manages to write a tearjerking 

story about the boy and the mother 

who still misses him dearly. 

At another newspaper, young star columnist 

Anders Malmberg sees the report and 

instantly recognises the tormentor from his 

childhood. The boy, Kent, had made his life 

a living hell; he was nothing at all like the 

angel portrayed in the magazine. Anders decides 

his next column should be a strong and 

personal one – revealing the real truth about 

the boy and the mendacity of magazine reporters. 

Soon both Anders Malmberg and Calle Collin 

are in danger. Some truths should be left 

unspoken – and one should never speak ill of 

the dead. 

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Kommer aldrig mer igen 

Never Coming Back 

Petter Lidbeck, född 1964 i Helsingborg, är 

flerfaldigt prisbelönad barnboksförfattare. 

2008 debuterade han under pseudonymen 

Hans Koppel som skönlitterär författar e för 

vuxna med kritikerhyllade Vi i villa. Han bor i 

Stockholm med fru och dotter. 


January 2011, 251 pages 


Mike Zetterberg bor med sin hustru Ylva och deras 

dotter i en villa strax utanför Helsingborg. När Ylva 

försvinner spårlöst riktas misstankarna snart mot Mike. 

Vad har egentligen hänt bakom gardinerna i villaidyllen? 

Polisen gissar passionsdrama med olyckligt slut men 

saknar bevis. Efter en tid kan ingen föreställa sig att Ylva 

fortfarande är i livet. Allra minst Mike. Men Ylva lever. Och 

hon är betydligt närmare än någon kan föreställa sig … 

Kommer aldrig mer igen är en gastkramande thriller med 

oväntad upplösning. Sällan har begreppet bladvändare 

kommit mer till sin rätt. Boken är redan såld till tio länder 

och produktionsbolaget som filmade Stieg Larssons 

Millenium-böcker har köpt filmrättigheterna. 

Hans Koppel är pseudonym för Petter Lidbeck. 

. 

A woman is held imprisoned just a stone’s throw 

from her own home and she knows why: her past 

has caught up with her. The revenge that strikes her 

is cruel, drawn out and meticulously served. Hans 

Koppel paints, in his characteristically sharp prose, 

a claustrophobic nightmare where evil deeds – even 

those seemingly buried in the dust of time – never go 

unpunished. 

90 000 copies sold in Sweden, 60 000 copies sold in 

the UK! 

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Kom ska vi tycka om varandra 

You’re Mine Now 


October 2012, 300 pages 


Anna is living happily with her husband and daughter 

but falls head over heels for Eric when staying at 

a hotel for a job conference. It is the best sex she has 

ever had, but a mistake, and she tries to break it off. 

Eric reacts with jealousy and anger. He does not care 

that she has a family, and soon the conversation is 

alarming Anna. He will do anything to be with her, 

and the lives of her loved ones are in danger. 






crime Fiction 

Hjorth & Rosenfeldt 

Michael Hjorth was born in 1963 in Visby. 

He is one of Scandinavia’s most accomplished 

screenwriters and producers, and 

one of the founders of the internationally 

successful production company Tre 

Vänner. 

Hans Rosenfeldt was born in 1964 in 

Borås. He has written screenplays for 

twenty drama series, including the international 

success Bron/The Bridge, and has 

hosted both radio and television shows. 

The Sebastian Bergman Series 

Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt got off 

to a flying start with the publication of their 

debut Det fördolda in 2010. With psychologist 

and profiler Sebastian Bergman – an 

arrogant and narcissistic womanizer with a 

personal trauma – in the lead role, Hjorth & 

Rosenfeldt had created an instant success. 

Months before Det fördolda was published 

in Sweden, translation rights were sold to 

nine countries. After the publication, to great 

reviews, the novel could be found on the 

bestseller list, where it remained for eight 

months. So far Det fördolda has sold more 

than 212 000 copies in Sweden. 

Lärjungen was published in August 2011. This 

second part in the series reveals to the readers 

even more about Sebastian Bergman, 

in a breathtaking roller coaster ride where 

Sebastian is confronted with his past, and 

with his nemesis. Since publication, Lärjungen 

has sold 164 000 copies. 

The third part of the series, Fjällgraven, was 

published in October 2012 and has so far sold 

more than 142 000 copies. 

In Germany, the Sebastian Bergman series 

has been even more successful than in Sweden; 

since publication of the first German 

translation in 2011, Hjorth & Rosenfeldt have 

never left the top of the charts. So far, more 

than 800 000 copies of the Sebastian Bergman 

books have been sold in Germany alone. 

Rights to the Sebastian Bergman series have 

been sold to 22 countries to this date. 

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“An exceedingly quick, efficient and continuously 

action packed crime thriller. They 

know their craft. They have great command 

of the staccato rhythm of this curt, brusque 

language and use it to create drama and continuously 

increasing tension.” 

Borås Tidning (SE) 

“Sebastian Bergman is a positive addition to 

the crime world. An excellent thriller.” 

Het Parool (NL) 

“Det fördolda is a brilliant crime novel” 

Ny Nordisk Litteratur (DK) 

“Det fördolda is definitely one of the fall’s 

best crime novels. /…/ Mikael Hjorth and 

Hans Rosenfeldt succeed in the art of writing 

a well-composed plot, place it in a believable 

environment and spice it with a good 

language. The book literally draws you from 

page to page, and keeps you pinned from letter 

to letter.” Sandefjords Blad (NO) 


Aschehoug, Norway 

Hr Ferdinand, Denmark 

Bazaar, Finland 

Bjartur, Iceland 

Rowohlt, Germany 

De Bezige Bij, the Netherlands 

Einaudi, Italy 

Psichogios, Greece 

Editions Prisma, France 

Czarna Owca, Poland 

Host, Czech Republic 

Corpus, Russia 

Animus, Hungary 

Editura Trei, Romania 

Trapdoor/Little, Brown, UK 

Murdoch, Australia & NZ 

Grand Central, US 


Intrinseca, Brazil 

Gachi-Changjo, Korea 

Tokyo Sogen, Japan 

Global, Taiwan 

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Fjällgraven 

The Mountain Grave 

by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt 

October 2012, 422 pages 



Catalogue 

German translations 

English translations of Det fördolda and Lärjungen 

The Mountain Grave 

Two women are hiking in the mountains of Jämtland 

in the North of Sweden. It’s autumn and 

it’s raining hard, and when one of them slips 

close to a raging torrent, they make a macabre 

discovery: the hand of a skeleton protruding 

from the river bank. 

The local police arrive at the scene and soon 

find that there is more than one body buried 

in the ground. When the area is fully excavated, 

six bodies have been found; four adults 

and two children. The Crime Investigation 

Department (CID) is called in, and Sebastian 

Bergman travels to Jämtland along with 

the rest of the team. 

On site, it is quickly established that the six 

were buried at the same time, although the 

state of the remains differ. Two of the bodies 

can be easily identified as a Dutch couple 

who were reported missing in November 

2003. The others are a mystery – their DNA 

prove that they are a family, but no family 

had been reported missing that autumn. A 

lot of things don’t quite add up for the CID 

team. 

Sebastian has enjoyed a new-found closeness 

with Vanja after saving her life from Edward 

Hinde. But when he hears that she might 

be moving abroad he is horrified, and decides 

to do everything he can to stop it. Vanja 

still doesn’t know that Sebastian is her real 

father, but maybe there is someone else on 

the team who does… 

In Fjällgraven, we follow profiler and psychologist 

Sebastian Bergman and his colleagues 

in the CID team again. In a thrilling pursuit 

of the truth, they are up against powerful 

forces that are willing to go to the ends of 

the earth to make sure that their secret agenda 

– and mistakes – remain secret. 






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Det fördolda 

Dark Secrets 




A sixteen-year-old boy, Roger, has gone missing, and 

his mother is worried. After a few days he is found – 

in a marsh, dead, with his heart has been cut out of 

his body. 

Sebastian Bergman, psychologist, criminal profiler 

and one of Sweden’s top experts on serial killers, reluctantly 

finds himself, for the first time in a long 

while, drawn into a murder investigation. Det fördolda 

is an intelligent and riveting story, impossible to 

let go of. 

Lärjungen 

The Disciple 




In the second book about Sebastian Bergman he is 

drawn into a copycat case: a series of brutal murders 

of women, down to the last detail exactly like those 

committed by the serial killer Edward Hinde, a man 

Sebastian put behind bars many years ago. 

Bergman is pitted against his old nemesis Hinde in 

a dramatic and suspenseful race against time, which 

keeps the reader captivated beyond the final pages of 

the book. 






crime Fiction 

Maria Lang 

Maria Lang was a nom du plume for 

Dagmar Lange, 1914–1991, who during her 

lifetime wrote 42 detective stories and in 

many regards can be considered the first 

queen of Swedish crime fiction. 

The Grand Old Lady of Swedish Crime 

Sweden’s answer to Agatha Christie, and the 

origin of the crime novel wave of our times. She 

debuted in 1949 with Mördaren ljuger inte ensam 

and for the next 42 years she dominated the 

crime fiction genre, feeding her readers’ neverending 

appetite for suspense. 

The queen of cosy crime, Maria Lang (1914– 

1991), wrote 42 much loved detective stories 

during her lifetime. Her debut Mördaren ljuger 

inte ensam was published in 1949 and was 

followed by a new book each year until 1991. 

Maria Lang (pseud. for Dagmar Lange) had a 

PhD in Literature and worked as a direct-or 

of studies and senior lecturer at the New Elementary 

School for Girls in Stockholm from 

1948 to 1974. She lived at times in Nora, where 

she moved after her retirement. Maria Lang 

was a member of the Swedish detective academy. 

For a long time, Maria Lang was one of 

the most popular and widely read crime writers, 

but lately her work has been neglected. 

Her books are traditional puzzle mysteries 

often set in the academic environment or 

in the small mining town Skoga, a slight 

euphemism for the real life Nora. 

Christer Wijk, a handsome and pipe-smoking 

detective is the recurrent problem solver 

in her books. The protagonist in the first 

novels is the dashing professor’s daughter 

Puck Ekstedt, but from Vår sång blir stum/ 

Our song is dumb (1960), the detective novelist 

Almi Graan (an anagram of Maria Lang) 

helps Wijk solve the criminal mysteries. 

Maria Lang describes human passions and 

erotic conflicts but is sometimes startlingly 

modern. Like in her first novel, where she 

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makes a both matter of fact and passionate 

plea that homosexual love is real love too. 

And this was written only five years after 

homosexuality was decriminalized and thirty 

years before the Swedish Board of Health 

and Welfare stopped declaring it a disease. 

This year, Swedish television channel TV4 is 

making a series based on six of Maria Lang’s 

books from the forties and fifties, all set 

around Skoga and in different seasons. The 

first film will be shown in cinemas in spring 

2013, and the TV series that follows will be 

shown in Sweden during fall 2013. Distribution 

rights to Denmark, Norway and Finland 

are confirmed so far. 

In 2013, Norstedts relaunched this vintage 

crime gem with Maria Lang’s first six books 

in new editions with imagery of the 1950s. 


Random House, Germany 

Hodder & Stoughton, World English rights 

Silke, Norway 

Gummerus, Finland 

Ediciones B, Spain 

Rosenkilde & Bahnhof, Denmark 

Film rights: 

Pampas Film AB/TV4 


English translation of Inte flera mord!/ 

No More Murders 

German sample translation of 

Se, döden på dig väntar/See Death Upon 

You Waits 

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crime Fiction 

Mördaren ljuger inte ensam 

The Murderer Doesn’t Lie Alone 

by Maria Lang 

March 2013, 244 pages 

Senior Editor: Peter Karlsson 

On a remote island in a divine lake lies Rutger’s dream cabin, a 

paradise for stressed city people. A handful of guests are playing 

around on the island, swimming, sailing and dancing. But for 

some it turns into more than a game. One is murdered. One becomes 

a murderer. And they all have something to hide. 

Farligt att förtära 

Harmful if Eaten 

by Maria Lang 



At a theatre performance in connection with a student party at 

the secondary school, the heroine drops dead on stage, poisoned. 

Shortly thereafter another girl is found dead under the stage. 

The tension and fear is spreading in the school. 

Inte flera mord! 

No More Murders! 

by Maria Lang 



Newly-weds Puck and Einar Bure are planning to spend a restful 

holiday together with Puck’s father Professor Johannes Ekstedt, 

in the idyllic small town Skoga. But on the first day, the Professor 

finds a young man dead outside his window. When inquisitive 

Puck starts scrutinizing the small society, she finds hatred, 

jealousy and cruelty lurking under the pleasent surface. 

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crime fiction 

En skugga blott 

Just a Shadow 

by Maria Lang 



When Puck Bure comes home after a trip abroad, she finds a 

strange woman in the Bure home – strangled and drowned in 

the bathtub. But an unfamiliar set of keys on the table provides 

a vital clue and reveals a tangle of love, envy and jealousy within 

an ambitious academic circle. 

Rosor, kyssar och döden 

Roses, Kisses and Death 

by Maria Lang 



Puck and Eje have been invited to the engagement party for 

their friend superintendent Christer Wijk and the beautiful 

Gabriella Malmer. But there is tension within the Malmer 

family and when Gabriella’s grandfather dies, shortly after 

having exclaimed that he intends to rewrite the will, suspicion 

flourishes at the Malmer Manor. 

Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård 

Tragedy at a Country Cemetery 

by Maria Lang 



At Vicar Tord Ekstedt’s home, Puck and Einar are enjoying 

the festive Christmas spirits. But before long, the picturesque 

parish village has become a murder scene and the list of suspects 

is frightfully long. 






norstedts agency Rights List 2013 

fiction 

Johannes Anyuru 

En storm kom från paradiset/ 

A Storm Blew in From Paradise (2012) 

Mikael Bergstrand Dimma över Darjeeling/Mist over Darjeeling (2013) 

Per Olov Enquist Liknelseboken/Metaphor – A Love Story (2013) 

Jonas Gardell 

AnnaMaria Jansson 

Torkar aldrig tårar utan handskar/ 

Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves (2012 & 2013) 

Välkommen ut på andra sidan/ 

Welcome to the Other Side (2013) 

Pija Lindenbaum Plats/Stay! (2013) 

Kristina Sandberg Sörja för de sina/Caring for One’s Own (2012) 

Maria Sveland Systrar & bröder/Sisters & Brothers (2013) 

Jenny Åkervall Jag tjänar inte/I Will Not Serve (2013) 

Carl-Henning Wijkmark Vi ses igen i nästa dröm/We’ll Meet Again (2013) 

crime fiction 

Thomas Bodström 

Rymmaren/The Escapee (2008); Idealisten/ 

The Idealist (2009); Lobbyisten/The Lobbyist (2010); 

Populisten/The Populist (2013) 

Michael Hjorth & Det fördolda/Dark Secrets (2010) 

Hans Rosenfeldt, Lärjungen/The Disciple (2011) 

The Sebastian Bergman Fjällgraven/The Mountain Grave (2012) 

Series: Den stumma flickan/The Mute Girl (2014) 

Hans Koppel, Kommer aldrig mer igen/Never Coming Back (2011) 

The Collin Series: Kom ska vi tycka om varandra/You’re Mine Now (2012) 

Om döda ont/What Comes Around (2013) 

Robert Kviby, De korrupta/The Corrupt (2012) 

The Lander Series: Listan/The List (2013) 

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For more information about our books: www.norstedtsagency.se

norstedts agency Rights List 2013 

Maria Lang, 

Mördaren ljuger inte ensam/ 

Relaunch of her classical The Murderer Doesn’t Lie Alone (1949; 2013) 

whodunnit novels: Farligt att förtära/Harmful if Eaten (1950; 2013) 

Inte flera mord!/No More Murders! (1951; 2013) et al 

Michael Mortimer Jungfrustenen/The Maidenstone (2013) 

Fossildrottningen/The Escape from Paradise (2014) et al 

Denise Rudberg, Ett litet snedsprång/Stepping Over the Line (2010) 

Elegant Crime Series: Två gånger är en vana/Twice is a Habit (2011) 

Bara tre kan leka så/Only Three Can Play That Game (2013) 

General non-fiction 

Henrik Arnstad 

Jesper Bengtsson 

Ingrid Carlberg 

Älskade fascism/Fascism, Mon Amour – The Ideology and 

History of the Black-and-Brown Movements (2013) 

Aung San Suu Kyi – En kamp för frihet/ 

Aung San Suu Kyi – A Biography (2011; updated 2013) 

Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig/ 

Raoul Wallenberg – A Biography (2012) 

Claes Ericson Oligarkerna/The Oligarchs – 

Money and Power in Capitalist Russia (2011; updated 2012) 

Sven-Göran Eriksson & The Official Sven-Göran Eriksson Biography: 

Stefan Lövgren Svennis – Min historia/Sven – My Story (2013) 

Daniel Goldberg & Minecraft/Minecraft (2012) 

Linus Larsson 

Tore Jansson 

Germanerna/Tale of the Teutons – Germanic and German 

in Antiquity and Afterwards (2013) 

Jonathan Lindström Medvetandets gåta/The Curiosity of the Mind (2013) 

Sven Lindström Roxette/Roxette – The Incredible Journey (2013) 

Bea Uusma 

Expeditionen – Min kärlekshistoria/ 

The Expedition – A Love Story (2013) 







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Our publishing group consists of Norstedts and Rabén & Sjögren, and houses internationally 

renowned authors such as Stieg Larsson, Stig Dagerman, Astrid Lindgren, Ingmar Bergman, 

P O Enquist, and Torgny Lindgren. 

We have been selling foreign rights and film rights for more than 60 years, with the whole 

world as our market place. We represent authors and their works in the line of fiction and 

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