Karin Smirnoff / Tina N. Martin

It was an event when Karin Smirnoff continued Stieg Larsson's brilliant crime series last year with “Verderben”. Fast-paced suspense with Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Just in time for the crime festival, “Retribution” is the eighth volume in the series. In it, the exploitation of the country and its people continues in the north of Sweden.The small town of Gasskas becomes the scene of an international greenwashing scandal.Everyone seems to be fighting ruthlessly against everyone else, and soon there is a dead body: a local mining entrepreneur. When a committed environmentalist is murdered, Mikael Blomkvist senses a big story.

Tina N. Martin's crime thriller “Gewittermann” is also set in the Swedish north. A body is found on the frozen Baltic Sea at minus 22 degrees - but the old man did not die of natural causes. Two dozen blows were struck against the skull of the wealthy pensioner Evert Holm. When Detective Inspector Idun Lind takes on the case, the background to the crime quickly becomes clear - the trail leads to the red-light district in northern Sweden. After “Apfelmädchen”, “Gewittermann” is the second case for Idun Lind.

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