the Nordic region

Asne Seierstad reconstructs Anders Breivik's meticulous preparation for the July 2011 Oslo bombing and the massacre of sixty-nine people, mostly young political activists, at Utoya island camp. Tracing his years of radicalisation and the survivors' traumatic ordeal with equal care, the book confronts far-right terrorism and examines how a peaceful, open society responds to ideological atrocity.

Joakim Palmkvist follows the mysterious 2012 disappearance of Swedish farmer Goran Lundblad and the tenacious amateur sleuth who helped police prove that his own daughter had orchestrated his murder over an inheritance dispute. The book is a methodical, unsettling account of greed, family dysfunction and the persistence that ultimately secured justice.

In 1987, a West German couple died aboard the Viking Sally ferry under circumstances that would go unsolved for nearly three decades. The case only resurfaced in 2015 when a woman reported her ex-husband to Danish police, claiming he had bragged about committing murder.