He strikes at random. His motive unknown. No one is safe...Helsingborg police must solve the unsolveable. A wave of apparently random homicides is sweeping through their idyllic seaside town. The murders have no pattern, no order, no reason. The perpetrator is immune to psychological profiling; forensically untraceable; utterly invulnerable to modern police techniques.The body count is growing. But lead investigator Fabian Risk is distracted...

'Breathlessly suspenseful, ingeniously plotted and impossible to put down' Yrsa SigurdardottirThe epic, explosive Fabian Risk series concludes with this action-packed thriller from international number one bestseller Stefan Ahnhem.He has extorted. He has abused. He has raped. He has sacrificed colleagues as a means to reach the top. His name is Kim Sleizner – and he works as a police chief in Copenhagen.Dunja Hougaard used t...

He has extorted. He has abused. He has raped. He has sacrificed souls as a means to reach the very top. In every way, he is a despicable man. His name is Kim Sleizner and he works as a police chief in Copenhagen.Dunja Hougaard has gone underground to covertly investigate her former boss, Sleizner. For months, Dunja and her team have been gathering information. When a high-ranking man within the Danish intelligence service and an unknown woman are found dead at the bottom of a lake ...

A KILLER WITH A MESSAGE.Two men are dead. Both had been bullies at school. A single clue has been found at the scene: a class photo, with two faces neatly crossed out.A DETECTIVE WHO CAN'T LET GO.Fabian Risk is among the faces in the photograph. He's also the lead detective on the case. He thought he'd left his schooldays behind. Now his classmates are dying for the sins of their childhood. . . .CAN YOU EVER HIDE FROM JUSTICE?The first book in an internat...

X Ways to Die continues the tense, multi-stranded story which begun with Motive X. It is at once an explosive, high-voltage thriller and a fearless exploration of the darkest side of human nature. To enter Stefan Ahnhem's world, with its interwoven plotlines and sprawling cast of characters, is to put yourself in the hands of a master storyteller.Praise for the author: “Atmospheric and complicated ... With great cop characters and some imaginatively grisly perps” SUNDAY TIMES...

A murderous game. The killer makes the rules. Death hangs on the roll of the dice.In murder investigations, it pays to keep things simple: motive, method, opportunity. But the case in front of Detective Fabian Risk is a nightmare. A killer who strikes out of nowhere. No apparent motive. No consistent method. Victims are tortured, strangled, burned, dismembered – each grisly killing carried out with savage precision, as if following the rules of a hellish game.

"An atmospheric and complicated saga of crimes that criss-cross the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark...great cop characters...and some imaginatively grisly perps."— Sunday Times***Would you kill for the one you love?***That's the question that international bestseller Stefan Ahnhem's The Ninth Grave: A Fabian Risk Novel seeks to answer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a Face....

The third book in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series, a terrifying story of stolen identity and serial murder.ON A HOT SUMMER'S DAYThe police chase a speeding car through the streets of Helsingborg. When they reach the bridge, the driver keeps going straight into the cold, dark waters of the Öresund strait.A TRAGIC ACCIDENTThe body recovered from the wreck is that of Peter Brise, one of the city's richest tech en...

A wave of apparently random homicides is sweeping through their idyllic seaside town of Helsingborg. The murders have no pattern, no order, no reason. The perpetrator is immune to psychological profiling; forensically untraceable; utterly invulnerable to modern police techniques. The body count is growing. But lead investigator Fabian Risk is distracted by his mission to expose a corrupt colleague, and his boss Astrid is spiralling back into addiction. As the hunt for the solution becoming...