Blaze Me a Sun: A Novel About a Crime (Halland Suite)

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated in this "thrilling and profoundly poignant" (Angie Kim) novel by&nbsp;one of the country's top criminologists, hailed as&nbsp;"the finest crime writer we have in Sweden" (David Lagercrantz, author of The Girl in the Spider's Web and other novels in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series) "Christoffer Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western."--Anthony Marra, author of Mercury Pictures Presents and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have attacked his first victim. I'm going to do it again, he says before the line cuts off. By the time police officer Sven Jörgensson reaches the crime scene, the woman is taking her last breath. For Sven, this will prove a decisive moment. On the same night, Sweden plunges into a state of shock after the murder of the prime minister. Could there possibly be a connection? As Sven becomes obsessed with the case, two more fall victim. For years, Sven remains haunted by the murders he cannot solve, fearing the killer will strike again. Having failed to catch him, Sven retires from the police, passing his obsession to his son, who has joined the force to be closer to his father. Decades later, the case unexpectedly resurfaces when a novelist returns home to Halland amid a failed marriage and a sputtering career. The writer befriends the retired police officer, who helps the novelist--our narrator--unspool the many strands of this engrossing tale about a community confronting its shames and legacies. A #1 bestseller in Sweden, Blaze Me a Sun marks the American debut of the youngest winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year award, the top prize for Swedish crime writers whose past winners include Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell.

Blaze Me a Sun: A Novel About a Crime

Literature & Fiction

Carlsson, Christoffer

Genre Fiction

Hogarth

Under the Storm: A Novel (Halland Suite)

An Introduction to Life-Course Criminology

Most people engage in crime at some point in their lives, but why does almost everybody stop soon after? And, why do a small number of offenders persist in crime? These two questions constitute the core of the field often known as life-course criminology. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to life-course criminology. It covers the dominant theories and methodologies in the field and equips you with all you need to succeed in your studies on the subject. The book: <ul>
<li>Discusses the methodologies of life-course and longitudinal research</li> <li>Explains and critiques the major theories of life-course criminology</li> <li>Considers the issues of risk, prediction, onset, persistence and desistance of criminal activity</li> <li>Draws on research from studies in Europe, the UK, US and Australia, including the Stockholm Life-Course Project</li> </ul>
Written by two leading figures in the field, this is an authoritative text that will guide you through your studies in life-course criminology, criminal career research, and developmental criminology.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sarnecki, Jerzy

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

The third instalment in the internationally bestselling Leo Junker series 
Charles Levin ― Leo Junker’s mentor ― is dead, shot in the back of the head in a premeditated attack. 
Now Leo must find out who killed him and, more importantly, why. 
Inspired by a string of scandals and murders that rocked Sweden in the 1980s, Nordic Noir superstar Christoffer Carlsson tells his own chilling version of what happened in those dark days.

Master, Liar, Traitor, Friend: a Leo Junker case

Contemporary

Scribe UK

WINNER OF THE 2016 BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNG READERS, SWEDISH CRIME WRITERS ACADEMY Vega Gilbert is 16 years old when the police come knocking on the door looking for her older brother, Jakob.  Vega hasn’t heard from him in days, but she has to find him before the police do. Jakob was involved in a terrible crime. What no one knows is that Vega was there, too.  In the rural Swedish community where the Gillbergs live, life is tough, the people are even tougher, and old feuds never die. As Vega sets out to find her brother, she must survive a series of threatening encounters in a deadly landscape. As if that wasn’t enough, she’s dealing with the longing she feels for a boy that she has sworn to forget, and the mixed-up feelings she has for her brother’s best friend.  During a damp, raw week in October, the door to the adult world swings open, and Vega realises that once she has crossed the threshold there is no turning back.  PRAISE FOR CHRISTOFFER CARLSSON ‘The desolate landscape is the perfect backdrop for this taut tale of old family feuds and unfurling secrets.’ The Irish Times ‘ ... And exciting it is. The seasoned crime writer Christoffer Carlsson always has intrigue under his control, and slowly turns up the mystery and drama.’ Dagens Nyheter

October is the Coldest Month

Teen & Young Adult

In the final days of summer, a young woman is shot dead in her apartment. Three floors above, the blue lights of the police cars awaken disgraced ex-officer Leo Junker. Though suspended from the force, he can t stay away for long. Bluffing his way onto the crime scene, he examines the dead woman and sees that she is clasping a cheap necklace a necklace he instantly recognises. As Leo sets out on a rogue investigation to catch the killer, a series of frightening connections emerge, linking the murder to his own troubled youth in Salem a suburb of Stockholm where social and racial tensions run high and forcing him to confront a long ago incident that changed his life forever. Now, in backstreets, shadowed alleyways, and decaying suburbs ruled by Stockholm s criminal underground, the search for the young woman s killer and the truth about Leo s past begins.

The Invisible Man from Salem: a Leo Junker case

Literary

Scribe Publications

The Falling Detective: a Leo Junker case

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