Viveca Sten Livres

Un corps mutilé est découvert dans la neige en Norvège, celui de Johan Andersson, ancien champion de ski. Parallèlement, Rebecka, 19 ans, mariée à un pasteur devenu violent, disparaît. Les deux affaires pourraient-elles être liées ? Un mystère captivant à explorer.

Roman policier (énigme) Meurtre spectaculaire sur l'île suédoise paradisiaque de Sandhamn. Thomas Andreasson mène l'enquête, aidé de son amie d'enfance Nora Linde...#x9C;Alors que les plus beaux voiliers sont rassemblés à Sandhamn pour le départ de la très populaire régate estivale, le coup de feu de départ retentit. Au même instant, le brillant avocat Oscar Juliander s'effondre, abattu d'une balle en plein poitrine. Thomas et son équipe sont sur les dents : comment retrouver un tueur au milieu d'une foule immense de spectateurs et de concurrents ? Et combien d'ennemis peut bien avoir une star du barreau ? Sans compter qu'Oscar Juliander multipliait les conquêtes, suscitant les pires jalousies. Thomas se tourne vite vers son amie Nora, toujours prête à l'épauler. Cela tombe à pic : en plein crise de couple, elle a grand besoin d'une diversion...

Un corps retrouvé sur une plage de l'île de Sandhamn, au large de Stockholm. Suicide ? Noyade ? L'inspecteur Thomas Andreasson, un habitué de ce petit bout de terre jusqu'alors paradisiaque, est chargé de l'enquête. Nora Linde, une amie d'enfance devenue avocate et dont la perspicacité est redoutable, lui propose son aide. Mais l'été vire au cauchemar quand une femme est assassinée dans sa chambre d'hôtel. Et si, désormais, plus personne n'était à l'abri ?

C'est l'hiver sur l'île de Sandhamn. La tempête de neige qui fait rage contraint les habitants à rester chez eux. Un matin, on découvre le cadavre d'une femme sur la plage : la célèbre correspondante de guerre Jeanette Thiels était connue pour son franc-parler avec certaines personnalités influentes, issues notamment du parti xénophobe Suède Nouvelle. Crime politique ou vengeance personnelle masquée ? L'inspecteur Thomas Andreasson n'a pas le temps de répondre qu'un nouveau meurtre a lieu. On retrouve l'atmosphère singulière des suspenses de Viveca Sten dans cette nouvelle enquête de l'inspecteur Thomas Andreasson et de Nora Linde, le couple qui a inspiré la série télévisée Meurtres à Sandhamn, diffusée sur Arte.

Sandhamn Island's archipelago is a beautiful place to visit. For a mother on the run, it's the only place to hide in a novel of escalating suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Still Waters. Building a case against Andreis Kovač is a risky strategy for prosecutor Nora Linde. A violent key player in Stockholm's drug trade and untouchable when it comes to financial crimes, he has the best defense money can buy. To topple Andreis's empire, Nora's working a different angle. It's personal. Nora's critical witness is Andreis's wife, Mina--if she'll testify. Mina has suffered her husband's rage too long. It's nearly cost her her life. Still carrying the traumas of the Bosnian War, Andreis can be triggered like an explosive. He must be taken down. And as the trial looms, Mina and her infant son must disappear. The police have found her a safe place to hide on Runmarö Island in Sandhamn's archipelago. But there's no shelter from a man as powerful and merciless as Andreis. Especially when he's being crossed. His campaign of terror has just begun. He's prepared to crush anyone who stands in his way: Mina, Nora, and everyone they know and love. Andreis is coming for them. This time, Nora is on the defense.

When two cold case disappearances are reopened, a decade of deadly secrets is unearthed on Sandhamn Island in the #1 bestselling thriller by Viveca Sten, author of In Bad Company. A woman's skeletal remains are excavated on an uninhabited island in Sandhamn's archipelago, and Thomas Andreasson is called to officially investigate. But his best friend, Nora Linde, can't help but get involved. On leave after her last case took a dark turn, Nora is tortured by depression, nightmares, and guilt. Her marriage fractured, her pride chipped away, Nora could find redemption in this investigation. Then evidence suggests two possible cold cases linked to the grim discovery: two women who have been missing for ten years. Now Nora feels compelled to unearth a mystery someone has gone to great pains to bury. What could have happened to require such a cover-up? As the cold case vanishings converge, Nora follows a twisting trail of revenge, blackmail, and betrayal. She's also inviting the watchful eye of someone determined to stop her. To free herself from the damaging grip of the past--and the reach of a relentless killer--Nora is going to have to brave the darkness one more time.

What's a lie among friends? It's murder--in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead... It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas's daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas's relationship in ways they never expected. Thrust into the investigation, they soon discover that it's more than a case of bad blood between friends. But the truth, which has receded into a haze of carousing, drugs, and liquor, is getting harder to see. If Nora and Jonas are going to find out what happened to Wilma, they'd better do it fast--before the ebbing tides sweep away all the terrible secrets of that night on Sandhamn Island.

"Previously published as I natt èar du dèod by Forum in Sweden in 2011. Translated from Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017"--T.p. verso.