James Walker

Kristina Appelqvist has been described as the queen of a type of whodunnit in which the various pieces of the puzzle are carefully crafted and assembled as the novel progresses.

Sara Lövestam's third novel about Kouplan, a transgender Iranian refugee turned private detective, is a subtle, humorous and immensely enjoyable read.

Do not choose to read it alone, in a house with many large, curtainless windows, standing on its own.

Both prosecutors end up turning to crime to reach their goals.

The strength of this first novel set in Lapland is not so much the plot and the whodunit, but rather the account Lars Pettersson weaves around the people eking out a living in this frozen wilderness and their struggle to keep alive local traditions of language and culture.

Claes de Faire is a journalist turned novelist.

Håkan Nesser’s crime novels featuring detective Van Veeteren have been translated into English. The stories about his latest detective, Gunnar Barbarotti, should be on the bookshelf of every English-speaking crime fiction fan.

Fine art meets organised crime in Dawn. False., a gripping tale focusing on two female artists.

A curated list of thrilling page-turners to lose yourself in, as reviewed in Swedish Book Review.

A heinous criminal - or criminals - stalk the alleys, passages, churches and walls of medieval Visby. No one is safe until Thierry of Liège doggedly gets to the truth in Dick Harrison’s latest crime fiction.

Hackers, oil, murders and a crime-writer-turned-investigator all meet in The Writing in the Water, a suspense novel by horror-writer-turned-crime-writer John Ajvide Lindqvist.

An excellent whodunnit as well as a sharp social and psychological drama about peoples’ lives, loves and unavoidable tragedies, The Living and the Dead shows Christoffer Carlsson on home ground in Halland.

Murder in academia: The Hawk Sings of Death is a literary crime novel set at Uppsala University by an author based there.

Charlotte Al-Khalili’s When Everything Is Over is a high-suspense novel with a focus on domestic violence and an unusual heroine.

William Älgebrink's The House at the End of the Pärl River is a thriller-horror story about a search for blood.