THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE MILLION-SELLING DCI EWERT GRENS SERIES, WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY 2005 FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR, AND AS HARD-HITTING A CRIME SERIES AS YOU WILL EVER READ
PEN 33
Bernt Lund harbours a sickness.
He is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims’ parents, and in the mind of his fellow inmates.
Lennart Oscarsson has a situation.
The worst scenario imaginable for Aspsås prison’s Department for Sexual Crimes.
These two men’s actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm’s history.
Pen 33 is both an unforgiving collision between a time-hardened policeman and a truly heinous crime, and an unflinching exploration of what people – whether criminals or victims – are capable of when they choose to relinquish self-control.
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BOX 21
Lydia Grajauskas will never forget the face.
The face of the trafficker who brought her to Stockholm: the man responsible for three unrelenting years of forced prostitution and slavery.
DCI Ewert Grens will never forget the name.
The name of the prisoner the day his life was destroyed: the man responsible for twenty-five years of torturous heartache.
Sweden will never forget their revenge . . .
Box 21 is a steely, airtight thriller containing both the harshest aspects of degradation and retaliation, and the toughest questions surrounding the morality of violent and obsessive reprisal.
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CELL 8
ONE CELL
A convicted murderer dies awaiting execution on Ohio’s death row.
ONE CRIMINAL
Six years later, the same man walks into a Stockholm police station.
ONE CONSPIRACY
He’s defeated death. He’s played the unplayable system. And now Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens must discover how.
PEN 33
Bernt Lund harbours a sickness.
He is a monster: in the mind of society, in the mind of his nine-year-old victims’ parents, and in the mind of his fellow inmates.
Lennart Oscarsson has a situation.
The worst scenario imaginable for Aspsås prison’s Department for Sexual Crimes.
These two men’s actions are about to hand DCI Ewert Grens the most profoundly sickening and impossibly sensitive case of his career, and in Stockholm’s history.
Pen 33 is both an unforgiving collision between a time-hardened policeman and a truly heinous crime, and an unflinching exploration of what people – whether criminals or victims – are capable of when they choose to relinquish self-control.
————–
BOX 21
Lydia Grajauskas will never forget the face.
The face of the trafficker who brought her to Stockholm: the man responsible for three unrelenting years of forced prostitution and slavery.
DCI Ewert Grens will never forget the name.
The name of the prisoner the day his life was destroyed: the man responsible for twenty-five years of torturous heartache.
Sweden will never forget their revenge . . .
Box 21 is a steely, airtight thriller containing both the harshest aspects of degradation and retaliation, and the toughest questions surrounding the morality of violent and obsessive reprisal.
————–
CELL 8
ONE CELL
A convicted murderer dies awaiting execution on Ohio’s death row.
ONE CRIMINAL
Six years later, the same man walks into a Stockholm police station.
ONE CONSPIRACY
He’s defeated death. He’s played the unplayable system. And now Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens must discover how.
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Reviews
'A mesmerising crime narrative' Independent
'A powerful, multi-layered novel' Guardian
'Journalist Roslund and ex-criminal Hellström are among Sweden's most popular thriller writers with a reputation for down-and-dirty detail and an eye for political intrigue and police corruption . . . extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail
'This is crime writing at its most ambitious and morally complex' Financial Times
'[In Ewert Grens] the authors have created an eccentric, alienated, socially inept hero worthy of comparison with Swedish mystery master Henning Mankell's Inspector Kurt Wallander' Wall Street Journal
'The Swedish team of Roslund and Hellström is writing explosive crime novels as good, if not better, than those of Stieg Larsson' USA Today