10 Best of Scandinavian thrillers
Books / / December 19, 2019
1. "The weakness of Victoria Bergman" Axl Erik Sund
"The weakness of Victoria Bergman" - a trilogy written by Swedes Jerker Eriksson and Håkan Sundqvist Akslanderom under the pseudonym Eric Axl Sund. All three books in the series are equally terrifying and confusing.
The plot is deceptively nezateyliv: Stockholm police commissioner Jeanette Chilberg investigates a series of murders sophisticated. At the same time it is trying to restore order in his personal life with the help of a therapist Tsetterlund Sofia. Last advice, and consequently, because of the violence, including in the family, knows firsthand. But who is actually Sofia? This is one of the mysteries of the trilogy.
Maniacal villains rolls, and by the end of the third part of the readers wonder and metamorphosis of the characters reaches its climax. Think of this can only Scandinavians.
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2. "Snowman", Jo Nesbø
You think, snowmen and winter fun - romantic and cute? Not only in Scandinavia. Here, even the first snow kills. Of course, not without the help of a clever criminal with a bouquet
mental disorders. But civilians were lucky: on their guard stands indomitable Chief Inspector Harry Hole. Tall, blue-eyed blond in between solving a deadly charades and pulling out the skeletons from foreign cabinets manages to break women's hearts."Snowman" - one of the worst books Jo Nesbø in a series of Inspector Harry Hole. And where only the author knows so much about the human vices, cruelty and sadism?
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3. "I travel alone," Samuel Björk
In the battle against evil hurt innocent souls: in the vicinity of the Norwegian capital found the bodies of six year old girls. Each looks like a pretty little doll. Idyll spoiled only one detail - the ribbon with the inscription "I am traveling alone" on the neck. The population is terrified, furious power.
But for the life of schoolgirls future can not be afraid, because the real geniuses working in the Metropolitan Police. One of them - the legendary Mia Kruger. Just yesterday she wanted to commit suicide, but today is eager to find a serial killer acting with extreme cruelty. How would harm neither masked nor hide from retaliation he did not leave.
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4. "Hypnotist" Lars Kepler
Can Hypnosis destroy life? Yes, if this is an experimental group session in the clinic for the mentally ill. The consequences of the experiment will be shown immediately, but only after a few years, when the protagonist relax and forget everything.
The couple, who writes under the pseudonym Lars Kepler, ruthlessly shows the most ugly side seemingly happy family life. Domestic violence, indifference adult, despair, children and teenagers, cruelty - all in excess. In spite of this book reminds us of simple human values.
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5. "Shadow", Karin Alvtegen
Whether a person is able to sell his own child for the sake of literary success? Can parents for years to tell a lie? How to live, knowing that occupy someone else's place?
Karin Alvtegen, niece Astrid Lindgren, writing is not about the good-natured fat man living on the roof. book heroes - our contemporaries, successful, famous and rich. But it is better not to know anybody that stands behind their success and what is the riches of the price. The book does not maniacs, but the themes and terrifying, because evil - is ourselves, our actions, and fears.
Our actions - our children. They continue to live independently of us and our will.
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6. "The girl stopped talking," Trude Teygen
Child abuse is awful. And doubly worse when accompanied by an adult tacit consent. More disgusting, when it administers the one who is called to lead the flock to the light.
Norwegian writer Trude Teygen raises issues of tolerance. When the sensitivity and the desire not to go into someone else's life turned into indifference and callousness? What abominations going on behind the facades of the houses manicured? Trying to sort out the writer in the depths of the souls of others leads readers into a labyrinth of repressed desires and hopes.
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7. "Hospice of St. Patricia," Johan Theorin
The action of the book takes place behind the high walls of the psychiatric hospital of St. Patricia. The focus is not insane, and poignant loneliness of "healthy" adults always remain children deep inside. Towards the middle it becomes unclear which one of the characters is actually sick, but who simply hiding in the hospital from the outside world. What is normal? It is possible it we were crazy, and those who are hiding in these institutions are healthy.
"Hospice of St. Patricia" - the product of atmospheric, sad aftertaste. Readers once again convinced that all problems come from childhood.
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8. "Bog", Arnaldur Indriðason
Arnaldur Indriðason - writer of Iceland. The action of his books takes place in the vicinity of Reykjavík. However, the quality and quantity of the abominations occurring in the novel allowed us to include it in this collection.
Middle-aged, but the shrewd detective Erlend Sveinsson investigates strange murder strings which stretch into the past. Events firmly entwined in a tangle, one crime not only broke the lives of several people, but also to define the future entirely innocent souls. Along the way, Sveinsson reflects on the life and tries to mend relations with his daughter-addict.
When you start, you think it's all nonsense, you are not affected. Do you think you are strong, you are strong, you can stand, strange pain will pass you. And here and there. There is no "distance", there is no armor, you're not a stitch, and forces you - shish! Disgust, loathing haunting you from morning to night, as long as you do not believe me: this filth, this abomination - and there is life, and there is no other life.
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9. "A woman in a cage", Jussi Adler-Olsen
Carl Mørk, an experienced investigator and head of the department of the Q newfound, knows how strong a man lust for life. He investigates unsolved crimes of particular public interest. Among them, the disappearance of a prominent politician Merete Lyunggor. Beauty with an impeccable reputation missing five years ago during a trip on the ferry. Who and why it has stolen, or the young woman committed suicide? Meticulous inspector Mørk necessarily know the answer to the mystery associated with the past.
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10. "Glass House", Kristina Olsson
Some crimes are no statute of limitations. Today's terrible discovery may uncover old secrets.
The police investigation into the disappearance student Rebecca Trolle experienced detectives led to unexpected results. The strings are pulled in a nursing home, where the world took refuge infamous writer Thea Aldrin. Thirty years old woman was silent, protecting his son from tormentor-father. But talk she still had, and the world heard the terrible recognition. What happened in a glass house, influenced the lives of many people in the past and the present.
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