Regarded as one of the finest literary crime writers in Scandinavia, celebrated author, critic and editor Jan Arnald is the man behind the bestselling Intercrime series, written under the nom de plume of Arne Dahl. The highly praised series of ten novels has sold more than 2.5 million copies and has won its creator such distinguished awards as the premier crime writing awards in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In 2007
The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers awarded Arne Dahl a special prize for his "vitalization and development of the crime genre through his Intercrime series".
In 2011 Arne Dahl started on the Op Cop quartet. The first installment,
Chinese Whispers, was awarded
The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award for 'Best Swedish Crime Novel' in 2011
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"Arne Dahl has created a school of his own within the Swedish crime writing tradition. He combines global intrigue with intelligence, suspense, and genuine literary quality."
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by Arne Dahl
It's a hot summer in Europe. Europol is tipped off that the shady gangs who control – and abuse – Europe's beggars are consolidated and connected to greater human trafficking networks. Since a few weeks back,...
by Arne Dahl
Over the course of just a few days three alarming deaths occur in different places in Europe. A plastic surgeon that supervised a secret EU project is found dead at his home in Belgium, it’s unclear whether it&rsqu...
by Arne Dahl
A new and top-secret Operative Unit of Europol has just been established. Its members call it the Op Cop group and Police Superintendent Paul Hjelm from Sweden is at the helm. Based in The Hague with connections and nati...
by Arne Dahl
Eleven is Arne Dahl's eleventh novel, and the first one to follow the completion of the Intercrime decalogy. Thus, it is something very different from what we’re used to – and yet so unmistakably Dahlian...
by Arne Dahl
With brooding melancholy, the A Unit is waiting for the last days of summer to turn into fall when a stick-up at a local video store turns everything around. A surveillance camera catches it all on tape, and, beyond the ...
by Arne Dahl
At 00.59 on August 5th, the nocturnal tranquility of Stockholm is suddenly broken when a subway car explodes. As the tabloid press blurts out its hasty and xenophobic conclusions about international terrorism, the most r...
by Arne Dahl
On a fresh summer's day in the deep forests of the far Swedish north, fourteen-year-old Emily disappears without a trace. She was there on a school trip, and there are enough alarming signs for the A Unit to be called in...
by Arne Dahl
The ex-wife of a member of The National Police’s Special Unit for International Violent Crimes – better known as the A Unit – enters a bank in a fashionable Stockholm district. This is the prelude to a ...
by Arne Dahl
Arne Dahl’s sixth crime novel about the A Unit is set during a hot, electrifying midsummer week in Sweden. A Polish guest worker is murdered with an axe; a TV executive is shot dead after the pilot airing of a real...
by Arne Dahl
Perhaps Arne Dahl’s most personal novel, Many Waters places detective Kerstin Holm at the boundaries of what is humanly endurable. It’s a story of love gone extremely sour, and the dangers of emotional e...
by Arne Dahl
What does the bizarre execution of a man at an open-air museum have to do with eight Eastern European women who have disappeared from a refugee center outside of Stockholm? Do these cases possibly have something to do wi...
by Arne Dahl
A young football fan is beaten down with a beer mug and dies on the floor of a popular pub in Stockholm. It’s a meaningless crime, far from those of the A Unit's prime – a group that's since been dissolved. P...
by Arne Dahl
Bad Blood is a story of unstoppable, war-induced violence spreading across generations. The A Unit learns that an American serial killer is on a plane from New York to Stockholm, but they have no positive ID. In constant...
by Arne Dahl
In sheer panic after the killings of several high profile business executives, the National Police Commissioner decides to start a new elite force, made up of select officers from all over of the country. The newly forme...
AUTHOR
Arne Dahl
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blindbock / Blind Man's Buff
May 2013, Crime
Hela havet stormar / Musical Chairs
2012, Crime
Viskleken / Chinese Whispers
2011, Crime
Elva / Eleven
2008, Crime
Himmelsöga / Eye in the Sky
2007, Crime
Efterskalv / Afterquake
2006, Crime
Mörkertal / Hidden Numbers
2005, Crime
Dödsmässa / Requiem
2004, Crime
En midsommarnattsdröm / A Midsummer Night's Dream
2003, Crime
De största vatten / Many Waters
2002, Crime
Europa Blues / The Europe Blues
2001, Crime
Upp till toppen av berget / To the Top of the Mountain
2000, Crime
Ont blod / Bad Blood
1998, Crime
Misterioso / Misterioso
1999, Crime
