English Translations of Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

Well we have a book that is an Advent calendar so you're only suppose to read it once a day from December 1 on. We have 5 books far this month to read and they are 1) The Calendar Man: A Scandinavian Dark Advent novel set in Greenland by Christoffer Petersen which will be published December 1, 2018. Denmark (Greenland). This is the Advent Calendar. 2) MURDER? by Christer Tholin to be published December 1, 2018. Sweden. He is German but living in Stockholm. 3) Hunting Game by Helene Tursten to be published December 4, 2018. Sweden. 4) The Woman in the Hotel by Sara Blaedel to be published December 4, 2018. Denmark. 5) The Whisperer by Karin Fossum to be published December 6, 2018. Norway. As always we will add books as they become known to us. Good reading.

Well we have a book published November 21, 2018 called All The Things She Wished She Didn't Understand by Steen Langstrup . Denmark.

The novella behind the motion picture ‘Finale’

Denmark is in the grand final. The streets are bare. Everyone is at home watching the game. At the gas station out by the highway, the two young women working the night-shift are expecting a quiet evening with very few customers...

However, no customers means no witnesses — And they have been chosen to star in a completely different kind of show.

Awarded ‘Best Danish horror book of the year’.

Inger Wolf has a book called Songbird which will be published December 17, 2018.

A thrilling Scandinavian mystery.
From an international best-selling and award winning author.
On an early morning in May, the police find the heavily beaten body of Maja Nielsen in a public park in central Aarhus in Denmark.

She has fallen from a great height and her right arm has been cut repeatedly. Everything points to a suicide, and as the police dig deeper into the world of Maja, they discover a young woman plagued by paranoia and violent nightmares.

Something was tormenting her.

The investigation leads Daniel Trokic and his team to a distinct blood profile with traces of an unknown drug, a tattooed Colombian, and a particularly uncompromising animal rights activist who has been run over in a hit-and-run accident.

SONGBIRD is the third book in the bestselling Scandinavian mystery series about Police Inspector Daniel Trokic, his colleague Lisa Kornelius, and the rest of the investigative unit at Århus Police station. If you like Stieg Larsson and Scandinavian mysteries, then you’ll love Inger Wolf’s spine-chilling who-done-it.

This is #3 in the Daniel Trokic Series, they are being published out of order.

Eighteen Below by Stefan Ahnhem has been re-published December 4, 2018. Sweden. It was published in 2017.

The third book in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series, a terrifying story of stolen identity and serial murder.

ON A HOT SUMMER'S DAY

The police chase a speeding car through the streets of Helsingborg. When they reach the bridge, the driver keeps going straight into the cold, dark waters of the Öresund strait.

A TRAGIC ACCIDENT

The body recovered from the wreck is that of Peter Brise, one of the city's richest tech entrepreneurs. Fabian Risk and his team are confident this is suicide. Young, rich, successful—Brise just didn't know how to ask for help.

TURNS EVERTHING A LITTLE BIT COLDER...

But then the autopsy reveals something unexpected. Brise was already dead when his car crashed. He'd been brutally murdered two months ago. His body frozen in perfect condition, at eighteen degrees below zero...Something doesn't match up. And when a string of other odd murders and unusual behavior come to light in the area, Fabian Risk takes the case.

Iced Out in Iceland by Zelda White was published December 7, 2018. Iceland,

When a grisly murder occurs in a remote Icelandic town, it's up to Detective Virginia Holmes to fit together the pieces! But with no leads and only a few clues, she'll have to dig deep into the town's history. What she finds is almost as explosive as the volcano threatening to erupt at any moment ...

Sebastian Lindell has a new book out in English called "When Darkness Covers the White Nights: A Crime Mystery from Lapland" to be published December 17, 2018. Finland. On Amazon not on Goodreads in English. Now shows January 2, 2019 as publication date in English.

LAPLAND after the war. In all of Finland, there was no district more dismal and godforsaken than that vast expanse of wilderness in the north known as Lapland. It is a hot summer’s night in the early 1960s. As the village of Tervola sleeps, someone chooses evil over good, and later in the night the body of a young woman is sunk in the river flowing through the peaceful parish. Forty years later in a small riverside wood, a married couple unearths something that draws the attention of Detective Inspector Markus Edelmann and Detective Sergeant Sonja Friberg from the city of Rovaniemi’s NBI. But before the enquiry has even properly begun, a cold-blooded murder takes place in broad daylight. The perplexed NBI investigators learn soon that the Russian border is nearer than one would have imagined and more open than ever. Secrets unlocked across Finland lead the enquiry team across the western border all the way to southern Sweden. On returning to the mystique of Lapland, the police officers’ lives are placed in danger when the evil-minded strive to protect themselves in the unexpected conclusion of the case. This Scandinavian-based crime story, inspired by true events, gradually exposes dark areas of the human psyche as well as those of our post-war history. As the first work by Sebastian Lindell, it also reveals how Markus Edelmann, the Finnish son of a German World War II soldier, became the most renowned Detective Inspector in Lapland!

This looks like it in Finnish it is on Goodreads just not in English (it's German):
Wenn Dunkelheit die hellen Nächte bedeckt: Kriminalroman aus Lappland
by Sebastian Lindell
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Dieser Erstlingsroman von Sebastian Lindell erzählt, wie Markus Edelmann, Sohn eines deutschen Soldaten aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, zum berühmtesten Kriminalkommissar Lapplands wurde.

LAPPLAND nach dem Krieg; ein gottverlassener und einer der abgelegensten Orte Finnlands.

Eine heiße Sommernacht in den frühen Sechzigern. Als das Dorf Tervola noch schläft, entscheidet sich jemand für das Böse. Später in der Nacht wird der Körper einer jungen Frau im Fluss versenkt, der sich friedvoll durch die Gemeinde zieht. Und vom Täter fehlt jede Spur.

Vierzig Jahre später, in einem kleinen Wald in der Nähe des Flusses entdeckt ein altes Ehepaar etwas, was schon bald das Interesse von Oberkommissar Markus Edelmann und Kommissarin Sonja Friberg von der Kripo Rovaniemi wecken wird. Aber sie sind gezwungen, die Ermittlungen zu unterbrechen, als ein kaltblütiger Mord am hellichten Tag die Gemeinde erschüttert.

Die Kripo muss allmählich feststellen, dass sich die russische Grenze näher befindet, als man je dachte, und dass sie offener als jemals zuvor ist. Die Entschlüsselung von Geheimnissen führt die Ermittler durch Finnland und bis an die westliche Grenze nach Südschweden.

Als der Gang der mystischen Ereignisse sie wieder nach Lappland leitet, gerät das Leben von Polizeiermittlern in Gefahr. In der überraschenden Wende im Fall 'Flussleiche' strebt der Schuldige danach, sich selbst zu schützen und seine niederen Beweggründe zu verschleiern.

Dieser außergewöhnliche und fesselnde Krimi - durch wahre Ereignisse inspiriert - deckt allmählich die dunklen Gebiete der menschlichen Psyche sowie unserer Nachkriegsgeschichte auf. (less)
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Enemy Within by Anu Koskivirta was published December 6, 2018. Finland.

This work explores the quantitative and qualitative development of homicide in eastern Finland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. The area studied comprised northern Savo and northern Karelia in eastern Finland. At that time, these were completely agricultural regions on the periphery of the kingdom of Sweden. Indeed the majority of the population still got their living from burn-beating agriculture. The analysis of homicide there reveals characteristics that were exceptional by Western European standards: the large proportion of premeditated homicides (murders) and those within the family is more reminiscent of modern cities in the West than of a pre-modern rural society. However, there also existed some archaic forms of Western crime there. Most of the homicides within the family were killings of brothers or brothers-in law, connected with the family structure (the extended family) that prevailed in the region. This study uses case analysis to explore the causes for the increase in both familial homicide and murder in the area. One of the explanatory factors that is dealt with is the interaction between the faltering penal practice that then existed and the increase in certain types of homicide. Despite the fact that it focuses on a particular region, the study and the questions it poses have both international and current relevance. This work builds a bridge between research into legal history and the sociologically oriented study of the history of criminality.

Dark Nights by Jenna van Berke will be published December 23, 2018. Finland.

Lola Renzi has been stalked for over a year when she finally accepts her best friend Litza’s offer to leave Portland and her stalker behind and take refuge at Litza’s house in a tiny village in eastern Finland.
The quiet Finnish winter in combination with the warm attention from handsome and enigmatic local Matti Vuorikoski are balm for her soul, and as days turn into weeks, Lola regains her her sense of safety.
Until the day she spots her stalker at the local grocery store, accompanied by someone she thought she could trust…

The Beast of Nordmarka by Gavin Graham was published December 5, 2018. Norway.

‘THE SANTA CLAUS KILLER IS COMING…IF YOU LOVED ‘THE SNOWMAN’ BY JO NESBØ THEN YOU’LL SURELY ENJOY READING GRAHAM’S OSLO-BASED SHORT STORY THIS CHRISTMAS…’ December, 2018…Christmas Day is approaching…a young man whilst walking in a Norwegian woodland stumbles upon the dismembered corpse of a man, where a trail of fresh blood in the snow leads him reluctantly into the trees…what he finds and what he witnesses is evil beyond thinkable comprehension…he is drawn to them…seduced by the murderous and sexual darkness of their Devil-worshiping Cult…so, they send him to hunt on the streets and in the homes of Oslo…abducting men, women and children for sacrificial killings in the freezing cold woods…this is the terrifying story of Oddvar ‘Lucifer’ Abel…The Beast of Nordmarka…Oslo’s infamous Santa Claus Killer…are you ready to feel the darkness? Good, then let me tell you the story...

A Little Bird Came Calling by Anton lindbak was published December 4, 2018. Scotland. This is a Scotish/Norwegian detective in Scotland.

When Private Investigator Hugo Storm is approached by Art Dealer Ariella Cantor, to find her young daughter who had disappeared months before, circumstances force him to accept the challenge.
Little does Hugo know the terrible secret behind the missing child, and then it all becomes personal - very personal.
The dark streets of Edinburgh are about to get a whole darker.

Introducing the Hugo Storm Crime Thriller series. Hugo is a fixer in Edinburgh.
Half Scottish and half Norwegian, Hugo is at heart a family man who is a capable operator, with the instinct of a natural investigator. He attracts all kinds of people - but, with authority issues and being impulsive, both his family and professional life are complicated. However, the adrenaline thrill of his job is just too strong to ignore.

Tartan Noir with a Nordic twist.

Ken wrote: "Well we have a book published November 21, 2018 called All The Things She Wished She Didn't Understand by [autho..."

Well 26% in i was loving it. Must have been around then he violence started and i hated it. Gratuitous violence. Horrid. Not going to watch the film although it would be atmospheric! How did anyone else find it?

Sue wrote: "Ken wrote: "Well we have a book published November 21, 2018 called All The Things She Wished She Didn't Understand [bookcover:All The Things She Wished She Didn't Understand|4297498..."

This sounded too dark & gritty for me Sue, so I won’t read it.
Hope your next one is pleasurable!