Jednoho chladného lednového dne je v ospalé vesnici na severu Švédska nalezena oběť brutální vraždy. Celá víska je hrozivě klidná a opuštěná. A tiché domky vzápětí vydají své tajemství: zločin, jaký švédská historie nepamatuje.
Když se o masakru dočte soudkyně Birgitta Roslinová, uvědomí si, že ji s místem pojí rodinná vazba, a rozhodne se pátrat na vlastní pěst. Jejími jedinými vodítky jsou přitom deník z 19. století a červená stuha nalezená v nedalekém lese.
Birgitta postupně odkrývá mezinárodní síť korupce a s ní i...

Hans Olofson is the son of a Swedish lumberjack. His childhood was unsettled. His adolescence was no easier as he lost both his best friend and his lover tragically. Alone and adrift, his only desire is to fulfil his lover's dream and visit the grave of a legendary missionary who survived alone in the remote hills of Northern Zambia.

At the age of five, Nelio watched helplessly as his village was burned to the ground and his people were massacred by bandits. He escaped by chance and made his way to the coast. Upon arrival in the city, Nelio joined a rough street gang, and began a very different way of life.

Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape themisery of life in a brothel. Leila has travelled with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home.

On an expedition to the Kalahari Desert, Hans Begler, a young entomologist, finds a small boy whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Begler takes the traumatised child home to Sweden and plans to civilise him. But Daniel cannot slip into an alien culture, and a new life in the cold and snow, so easily.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted.

The destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. Svartman alights on a barren skerry and is surprised to discover there a young woman, Sara Fredrika.

Novela o komisaři Wallanderovi Po třiceti letech na stejném pracovním místě je komisař Kurt Wallander unavený, nevrlý a má nutkání konečně něco změnit. Když se mu naskytne možnost koupit starý statek s kouzelnou zarostlou zahradou na klidném venkově, zdá se to jako sen. Idyla se však vzápětí rozplyne — komisař na zahradě najde ruku, vlastně celou kostru, pohřbenou v mělkém hrobě. Místo zařizování útulného domova tak Wallanderovi nezbude než se pustit do toho, co mu beztak jde nejlépe — pátrání po vrahovi.

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In 1904, Hanna Renstrom escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. She finds love in the form of the ship's mate, whom she marries, but disaster strikes when her husband is struck down almost immediately by a fatal illness. Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenco Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life anew. Stumbling across what she believes to be a down-at-heel hotel, Hanna becomes embroiled in a sequence of events that lead to her inheriting the most successful brothel in town."