Liza Marklund

Stockholm journalist Annika Bengtzon turns independent reporter, mostly pursuing terrorism stories. While she's investigating in the northern town of Lul̊eå, a fellow journalist and source dies in a hit-and-run accident, which turns out to be the first in a series of murders. Annika traces these murders to a deadly act of sabotage on a Swedish military base in 1969, and begins to suspect that the man behind the present-day slayings and the army...

A shooting at the glamourous Nobel Prize Dinner in Stockholm enmeshes investigative reporter and witness Annika Bengtzon in a web of international terrorism and global pharmaceutical interests that forces her to track down a professional assassin.

"Annika Bengtzon is back at Kvällspressen's Stockholm offices after three years as the newspaper's Washington, DC correspondent. One afternoon, a young woman is found dead behind a nursery school in a Stockholm suburb. She is the fourth victim with the same characteristics: a young mother, stabbed from behind. In the editorial offices of Kvällspressen they sense a serial killer, but Annika dismisses it as a wild fantasy. Meanwhile, her husband Thomas...

Annika Bengtzon has a gut feeling the bombing of the Olympic Stadium was not a terrorist attack but a personally motivated one.

Red wolf: In the dark winter of northern Sweden, a journalist is murdered. Annika senses that the killing is linked to a terrorist attack 40 years ago, about which the journalist knew too much. Her investigation brings her into a world of old loyalties that began with the 1960s leftists and extends into the liberal government of today. -- Lifetime: Lonely and divorced, Annika spends most of her time at work to forget her private misfortunes. She reports...