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  • Location: St Petersburg (Leningrad), Stockholm

To the Hermitage

1770s, 1990s: The setting is Russia and Stockholm – the story is the the Diderot project or the creation of the world’s first Encyclopedia

  • Location: North Koster, Stockholm

Spring Tide (Rönning & Stilton 1)

1987, 2011: You know you’re in good hands when the scriptwriters who brought us Arne Dahl and Wallander to the world put pen to paper…

  • Location: Fjällbacka

The Stranger (Fjällbacka 4)

2000s: Previously titled The Gallows Bird, this is a great story about the repercussions of what effect actions of one moment can have on the…

  • Location: Stockholm

Stockholm Octavo

1791 – the 18th C and and an octavo are an interesting mix and it’s always nice to travel to Stockholm – a game of…

  • Location: Malmköping, Småland, Sweden

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

2005 – A cross between Harold Fry and Forest Gump. A classic in Swedish but still as funny thanks to the translation by Rod Bradbury.…

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Murder in Paris

1945:  There are suspected collaborators in the upper echelons of French society

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