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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 director 

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 

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modern. Like in her first novel, where she 

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 2014. Distribution 

rights to Denmark, Norway and Finland are 

confirmed so far. 

In spring 2013, Norstedts will relaunch this 

vintage crime gem with Maria Lang’s first 

three books in new editions with imagery of 

the 1950s. Three more will follow in autumn 

2013. 

Rights sold to: 

Silke, Norway 

Gummerus, Finland 

Ediciones B, Spain 

 

Film rights: 

Pampas Film AB/TV4 

Available material: 

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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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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En skugga blott 

Just a Shadow 

by Maria Lang 

August 2013, 213 pages 


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. 






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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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Kommer aldrig mer igen 

Never Coming Back 

Tidigare titlar av 

by Hans Koppel 

January 2011, 251 pages 

Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram 

om Vi i villa (2008) 

»vårens bästa samtidsskildring« 

Expressen 

»Norénkänsla och humor i skön mix« 

Aftonbladet 

»stilren och effektiv« 

Svenska Dagbladet 

–––––– 

om Medicinen (2009) 

English translation available 

»synnerligen underhållande« 

Tidningen Kulturen 

»humor och sanningar i en skruvad roman« 

Tidningen Vi 

»ett riktigt lyckopiller« 

Bibliotekstipset 

–––––– 

om Kungens födelsedag (2010) 

»Ett stycke lysande samtidssatir.« 

Kristianstadsbladet 

More than 86 000 copies sold in Sweden and more than 

»osviklig känsla för skenbart banala detaljer, distinktioner 

och tecken i tiden« 

Dalarnas 60 Tidning 000 copies sold in the UK! 

»dags att kliva ut på scenen och tacka för de väl 

förtjänta applåderna« 

Sydsvenskan 

Never Coming Back 

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 gives us a sharp, claustrophobic 

page-turner. 

It is Friday evening in Helsingborg in southern 

Sweden. On her way home from work, 

Ylva Zetterberg is stopped by a car. The 

couple in the car looks familiar, people from 

her childhood and youth in Stockholm, they 

insist on giving her a lift home and despite 

misgivings she gets into the car. When Ylva 

wakes up, she finds herself in the couple’s 

cellar. Through degrading treatment and 

rape she is going to be taught that her life 

is not worth living, just like the couple’s 

daughter was taught many years ago, in the 

company of Ylva and her friends. And just 

like their daughter, her only way out of this 

hell is to take her own life... 

Meanwhile, Mike Zetterberg and daughter 

Sanna wait next door. Where is Ylva, and 

why isn’t she answering her phone? When 

Ylva still hasn’t turned up the next morning, 

Mike contacts the police but gets little help. 

If she doesn’t show up within a day or so, 

they make it clear that he will be considered 

the most likely suspect of her disappearance. 

On a TV screen in Ylva’s cellar, she can 

see what happens outside her own home. 

Through the lens of a web camera attached 

to the house she is kept in, she can catch 

glimpses of Mike and Sanna, how their 

everyday life goes on in her absence. How 

can she get them to understand that she is 

there, just a stone’s throw away… 

In Kommer aldrig mer igen 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. 

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Kom ska vi tycka om varandra 

You’re Mine Now 

by Hans Koppel 

October 2012, 300 pages 

Senior Editor: Annika Seward Jensen, Telegram 

English translation available in August 2013 

You’re Mine Now 

International critics raved about Koppel’s crime 

debut Kommer aldrig mer igen. Now he’s back 

with another terrifying thriller that gets under 

your skin. 

Anna is living happily with her husband 

and daughter outside the southern city of 

Helsingborg. She and two of her female colleagues 

– the power troika of the Family 

Journal – are on a weekend conference to lay 

the plans for the coming year. 

After dinner, Anna is courted by an attractive 

young man working at a local ad agency. 

Unlike her two colleagues, Anna has never 

been unfaithful, not even thought about it, 

but Erik is 15 years younger, athletic and intensive, 

and she simply falls for his charms. 

It is the best sex Anna has ever had, but a 

mistake, and she is immediately regretful. 

She goes to Erik’s place to end their affair before 

it goes any further, but ends up in bed 

with him instead. 

Anna tries to break up with Erik without 

hurting his feelings, but he reacts with jealousy 

and anger. Erik doesn’t care that she 

has a husband and a daughter that she loves, 

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. 

Calle Collin – the journalist we met in Kommer 

aldrig mer igen – plays a brief part in this 

story too. The location in southern Sweden 

also connects this novel with the first in 

the series, but what ties them together even 

more is the theme – Hans Koppel is back 

with a new thrilling novel about actions and 

consequences. 






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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 200 000 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 more than 155 000 copies. 

The third part of the series, Fjällgraven, was 

published in October 2012 and has so far sold 

more than 77 000 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 410 000 copies of the two first Sebastian 

Bergman books have been sold in Germany 

alone. 

Rights to the Sebastian Bergman series have 

been sold to 20 countries to this date. 

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του Ρότζερ. Λίγες μέρες μετά, μια ομάδα προσκόπων 

ανακαλύπτει τυχαία το πτώμα του σ’ ένα βάλτο 

έξω από την πόλη Βεστερός. 

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Ο ψυχολόγος Σεμπάστιαν Μπέργκμαν, εγκληματολόγος 

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στην Ινδονησία, έχει αποτραβηχτεί από την ενεργό δράση 

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“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 

Czarna Owca, Poland 

Host, Czech Republic 

Corpus, Russia 

Animus, Hungary 

Editura Trei, Romania 

Trapdoor/Little, Brown, UK 

Murdoch, Australia & NZ 

Grand Central, US 

Pegasus, Turkey 

Intrinseca, Brazil 

Gachi-Changjo, Korea 

Tokyo Sogen, Japan 

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Det fördolda 

Dark Secrets 

by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt 


Senior Editor: Susanna Romanus 


Catalogue 

English translation 

German translation 

Dark Secrets 

It begins with a call to the police. A sixteen-yearold 

boy, Roger, has gone missing, and his mother 

is worried. After a few days he is found – in a 

marsh, dead, and his heart has been cut out of 

his body. 

Sebastian Bergman, psychologist, criminal 

profiler and one of Sweden’s top experts on 

serial killers, is in Västerås to settle the estate 

following the death of his mother. Sebastian 

has completely withdrawn from police work 

after the death of his wife and daughter in 

the 2004 tsunami. He is emotionally cutoff, 

depraved, and has relapsed into sexual 

addiction to briefly fend off the memories of 

his loss. 

But the Crime Investigation Department 

(CID) has taken over the case of the murdered 

boy, and they need Sebastian Bergman’s 

help. Reluctantly he finds himself, for the 

first time in a long while, drawn into a murder 

investigation. He becomes increasingly 

involved in the case but he also has his own 

highly personal reasons for wanting to be a 

part of the CID team. 

Det fördolda is an intelligent and riveting 

story, impossible to let go of. Michael Hjorth 

and Hans Rosenfeldt write with confidence 

and with an authoritative tone that sets 

the scene already in this book, their debut 

novel which is the first in the series with the 

unforgettable Sebastian Bergman in the lead 

role. 

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Lärjungen 

The Disciple 





Catalogue 


The Disciple 

In Lärjungen, the second instalment of the Sebastian 

Bergman series, Sebastian is pitted 

against his nemesis and the stakes have never 

been higher. 

Sebastian Bergman has found out that he has 

a grown-up daughter and his life has been 

given a new meaning. For the first time since 

losing his wife Lily and daughter Sabine in 

the tsunami on the beach of Khao Lak in 

2004 he feels connected to another person. 

He now struggles with the decision whether 

he should reveal himself to her as her biological 

father or if he should let their kinship 

remain a secret. That she, Vanja, also 

happens to be a member of the CID team 

he worked with a while ago complicates the 

situation further. 

After stalking her for weeks, following her 

moves from a distance, he realizes that the 

only way he can be close to her, without the 

risk of pushing her away, is by rejoining the 

CID-team. But he is shocked when he discovers 

the circumstances of the case they 

are working on: a series of brutal murders of 

women, down to the last detail exactly like 

those committed by the serial killer Edward 

Hinde, who Sebastian put behind bars many 

years ago. But Hinde is still in jail, and under 

strict guard, which means that they have a 

copycat on their hands. 

In Lärjungen, Sebastian Bergman is pitted 

against his old nemesis, Edward Hinde, in a 

dramatic and suspenseful race against time, 

which keeps the reader captivated beyond 

the final pages of the book. With a sharp 

sense of style and an intelligent plot, Hjorth 

& Rosenfeldt dement their reputation as the 

hottest new crime authors on the Scandinavian 

market. 

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Fjällgraven 

The Mountain Grave 


October 2012, 422 pages 



Catalogue 


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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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. De korrupta was 

his literary debut and 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 32 000 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 


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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 






crime Fiction 

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 a suite 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 128 000 copies so far. 


Catalogue 

Sample translation in English available 


Cappelen Damm, Norway 

Pegasus, Turkey 

Amazon, World English 

continued > 






crime fiction 

Ett litet snedsprång 

Stepping Over the Line 

by Denise Rudberg 



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 


September 2013, 400 pages 


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. 






Coming soon... 

MiCHAel MortiMer jungfrustenen 

Jungfrustenen 

The Virgin Stone 

by Michael Mortimer 

Autumn 2013, 438 pages 


Material available autumn 2013! 

jungfrustenen 

ISBN: 978-91-1-303352-5 

The Virgin Stone 

norstedts 

www.norstedts.se 

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 

dies under spectacular circumstances. Soon 

Ida is sought not only by the police, but also 

norstedts 

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. 






Coming soon... 

jungfrustenen 



norstedts 




norstedts agency Rights List 2013 

fiction 

Johannes Anyuru 

Gunnar Ardelius 

En storm kom från paradiset/ 

A Storm Blew in From Paradise (2012) 

Friheten förde oss hit/ 

The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here (2012) 

Frans G. Bengtsson Röde Orm/The Long Ships (1941 & 1945; 2012) 

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

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

Jonas Gardell 

Torkar aldrig tårar utan handskar/ 

Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves (2012 & 2013) 

Mariette Glodeck Den sista dagen i december/The Last Day of December (2012) 

Eija Hetekivi Olsson Ingenbarnsland/No Child´s Land (2012) 

AnnaMaria Jansson 

Välkommen ut på andra sidan/ 

Welcome to the Other Side (2013) 

Jonas Hassen Khemiri Jag ringer mina bröder/I’m Calling My Brothers (2012) 

Pija Lindenbaum Plats/Stay! (2013) 

Karolina Ramqvist Alltings början/The Beginning of Everything (2012) 

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

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

crime fiction 

Michael Hjorth & Det fördolda/Dark Secrets (2010) 

Hans Rosenfeldt, Lärjungen/The Disciple (2011) 

The Sebastian Bergman Fjällgraven/The Mountain Grave (2012) 

Series: Untitled #4 (2014) 

continued > 

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

norstedts agency Rights List 2013 

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

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

Untitled #3 (2013) 

Robert Kviby, De korrupta/The Corrupt (2012) 

The Lander Series: Listan/The List (2013) 

Untitled #3 (2014) 

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 

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 

Jesper Bengtsson 

Ingrid Carlberg 

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) 

Niklas Zetterberg & Kampen om Stilla havet/The Battle of the Pacific (2012) 

Dan Öberg 

LBF tables: 25s, 26s 







About us 

Norstedts Agency is a part of Norstedts, Sweden’s oldest publishing house founded in 1823. 

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 

general non-fiction. 

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

To sign up for our newsletter, please contact Åsa Bergman. 

Linda Altrov Berg 

Rights Director 


Phone +46 10 744 20 33 

Mobile +46 705 65 22 70 

Catherine Mörk 

Rights Manager 


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Åsa Bergman 

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