Viveca Sten est reconnue pour ses romans policiers captivants, souvent situés sur la toile de fond évocatrice de l'archipel de Stockholm. Ses récits plongent dans les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et dans des relations personnelles complexes, entraînant les lecteurs dans des mystères prenants. Sten crée avec maestria des intrigues pleines de suspense et des personnages psychologiquement riches, ce qui lui a valu une large acclamation de la critique et un lectorat international dévoué. Sa capacité distinctive à tisser des histoires palpitantes avec un commentaire social perspicace distingue son œuvre.
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...
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Island archipelagos are Sweden's quintessential summer retreats. Viveca Sten's crime novels have enjoyed success across Europe and the Stockholm-based author has now turned her hand to food writing. Her debut cookbook explores coastal cuisine, taking us to rocky beaches, salty bays, and windy heartlands. Sten offers a wealth of exciting recipes including spring vegetables with flavoured butter, truffle-baked black salsify with lentil and apple salad, and seared fast-cured whitefish.
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.
The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime. On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander's personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister's lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it's a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can't help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow. As subzero temperatures drop even further, a treacherous blizzard sweeps toward Åre. Hanna and Daniel's investigation is getting more desperate by the hour. Lost or abducted, either way time is running out for the missing girl. Each new clue closes in on something far more sinister than either Hanna or Daniel imagined. In this devious novel by the bestselling author of the Sandhamn Murders series, discover what it will take to solve a case when the truth can be so easily hidden in the coming storm.