A spate of killings that began with the murder of a Swedish journalist prompts crime reporter Annika Bengtzon to look into the deaths, in an investigation that forces her to question her own husband's honesty.

Paris is stunning in the summer NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. The killing is simply marvelous Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found...

When a dead woman turns up on a frozen lake, her body bearing unmistakable signs of torture, Inspector Anna-Maria Mella enlists attorney Rebecka Martinsson to help her unravel a complicated web of dark secrets, perversion, obsession, and murder.

When a nurse is murdered and another disappears during a hospital blackout, Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit struggles with a report by the crime's only witness, who claims she saw a nurse who died sixty years earlier.

January, Fjällbacka. A semi-naked girl wanders through the woods in freezing cold weather. When she finally reaches the road, a car comes out of nowhere. It doesn't manage to stop. By the time Detective Patrik Hedström receives word of the accident, the girl has already been identified. Four months ago she disappeared on her way home from the local riding school, and no one has seen her since. It quickly becomes clear that she has been subjected...

Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden's former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But

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The Department of Sensitive Crimes, led by Ulf Varg, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no matter how complex. So when Ulf is approached by the girlfriend of Trig Oloffson, who claims her beau is being blackmailed, Ulf is determined to help. The case requires all of Ulf's concentration, but when Ulf is also tasked with looking into a group of dealers exporting wolves that seem decidedly domestic, it will require all of his team's investigative...

After spellbinding audiences in "The Hypnotist," Detective Inspector Joona Linna is back. At its core, the most frightening aspect of "The Nightmare" isn't its gruesome crimes - it's the dark psychology of its characters - who show us how blind we are to our own motives.