Kjell Eriksson är både författare och trädgårdsmästare. I Den upplysta stigen hittas en ung man mördad, gömd under en gran. Varför kom han till den lilla uppländska byn Ramnäs? Kriminalinspektör Ann Lindell leder utredningen om mordet som skakar om en hel by. Lant-arbetarfamiljen Risberg och den inflyttade insektsforskaren Erik Rosander finns i centrum. Deckaren gör en djupdykning i den uppländska myllan, bland människor och stämningar, med ut-blickar mot både Paris och Peru. Den upplysta stigen är en roman om vår tid, den lilla byn och världen utanför.

Det är midsommarafton 1999. En man stiger av pendeln i Bålsta med en sportbag fylld med pengar efter ett postrån. Han möts av sin syster och tillsammans firar de helgen i barndomshuset. Mannen slår sig ner i ett torp i trakten. Några mil därifrån bor den f.d. lantarbetaren Edvard Risberg. Tidigare var han aktiv facklig kämpe. Nu iakttar han med saknad sitt gamla förbunds nedgång och fall. Det som i stället lyser upp hans tillvaro är kärleken till kriminalinspektören Ann Lindell. I december hittas ett medelålders par brutalt mördade i en villa utanför Uppsala. Den sårade kvinnan dör framför polisens ögon med något som kanske är mördarens namn på sina läppar. Kort därefter avrättas en ung kvinna med ett pistolskott mitt inne i staden. Ann Lindell anar att motivet är hämnd. Men vad är det som väcker denna ofattbara vrede hos den som hållit i vapnet?

Shortlisted for the Prize for Best Swedish Crime Novel. On a sunny morning in June, a young woman and her six-year old daughter are run over by a car on the road to Uppsala. Both are killed immediately. Is it an accident, or did someone kill them on purpose? The same morning the husband of the deceased young woman disappears. During the police investigation, it turns out that the husband had recently bought a property in the Dominican Republic, something that nobody knew about. A few days later a macabre discovery is made in a forest nearby. Eriksson has been nominated for the Best Swedish Crime Novel many times. Stone Coffin is the seventh novel in his critically-acclaimed and internationally-loved series.

This spellbinding new thriller opens when a young father fails to show up for supper on a snowy night just before Christmas. His is not the only sinister disappearance, and before the final breathtaking climax, a secret killer terrorizes an entire frightened town. Despite being on maternity leave, Inspector Ann Lindell is determined to find John's murderer. The cruel cat-and-mouse game that follows leads Ann to a deadly confrontation with a treacherous killer. Ann must decide whether to take a huge risk that could result in many more dead bodies in the snow, including hers and that of her unborn child.

Det är tidig morgon den 10 maj 2003. En taxichaufför på väg att avsluta sitt nattpass gör en chockerande upptäckt. Varenda skyltfönster på Drottninggatan är krossat och vägbanan fylld av glassplitter. Media strömmar till och mitt under direktsändning i lokalradion hörs ett skrik inifrån en bokhandel. En kvinna har hittat en död man i butiken. Mördad. På Uppsalapolisen är man frågande och djupt oroad. Vad är det som pågår i staden? Femtonårige Ali vet. Han tänker dock inte berätta för någon vad han sett. Ann Lindell, som är tillbaka i tjänst efter sin barnledighet, hamnar omedelbart mitt i ett fall som är mera komplicerat än något annat hon ställts inför. Dessutom får hon under arbetet ett överraskande mobilsamtal. Det är Edvard Risberg, hennes gamla kärlek, som hör av sig. Men hans röst låter annorlunda.

When The Princess of Burundi was published last year by Thomas Dunne Books, American critics hailed Kjell Eriksson as Sweden's Ed McBain, and they compared him to Henning Mankell. Now The Cruel Stars of the Night, the next in this internationally acclaimed crime series, unveils a spellbinding new tale again featuring police inspector Ann Lindell. The Cruel Stars of the Night opens one snowy day when thirty-five-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance. And when the corpses of two elderly men do turn up, neither of the dead men is the missing academic. Unexpectedly, the police get help from one of the professor's colleagues, who believes there is an astonishing link between the murders and the disappearance of Professor Hindersten. But as the pressure on Lindell increases dramatically, she is shocked to discover that the killer has many more diabolical schemes in store. Combining heart-pounding suspense with brilliant psychological insight, The Cruel Stars of the Night moves like a comet as it approaches the cliff-hanging climax. It is sure to win Kjell Eriksson a whole new galaxy of American fans.

In The Demon of Dakar, Ann Lindell and her motley crew of colleagues are faced with a most baffling murder case in which all clues lead straight back to a popular local restaurant named Dakar. The owner, Slobodan Andersson, has some shady connections in his past, and his partner's reputation is equally murky. The kitchen crew is not above suspicion, either. The meat chef is an oddball, to say the least, while unbeknownst to the rest, the newest hire's personal life is a tangled web of lies. Even Eva Willman, the seemingly blameless older woman returning to the workforce as a waitress, has skeletons in her closet. And then the tension rachets up a number of notches as it becomes apparent that one murder has not satisfied the killer in the least. If Ann is to prevent a bloodbath at Restaurant Dakar, she must match wits with a killer whose motives are seemingly completely obscure. But the reader knows the killer well. His crimes are justified from his point of view. Not only that, he's a very likable fellow who is only looking for justice.

A Swedish county commissioner walks out of a high-level meeting and disappears. Many years later, one of the town's natives is convinced that he's caught a glimpse of the missing man while traveling in Bangalore, India. When the rumors reach his hometown, a veteran police officer stumbles across a seemingly unrelated case. Ann Lindell, Eriksson's series detective, must investigate a severed female foot found where a striking number of inhabitants are single men. But the owner of the house where the victim believed to have lived is no longer able to answer any questions….

In Black Lies, Red Blood, police officer Ann Lindell is great at solving crimes, but she doesn't have as much luck in her personal life. When she meets journalist Anders Brant, Ann thinks her luck has turned around. But then Anders disappears without a trace and a homeless man's body is found with Anders' phone number in the dead man's pocket. As Ann races to find Anders, she hopes that she will not be too late, and she also hopes that whatever she discovers will not break her heart.

Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in his otherwise quiet upper-class neighborhood in Uppsala, Sweden, as not everybody is happy with the choice of winner. Mysterious incidents start to occur. 'Boyish pranks' say the police, but what follows is certainly not innocent amusement. Detective Inspector Ann Lindell becomes involved in the case and immediately is transported back into her own past.