Ann Lindell Mysteries

8 primary works • 10 total works

The Princess of Burundi

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 1 January 2006

Winner of the Swedish Crime academy Award for Best Crime Novel, "The Princess of Burundi" introduces readers to a leading crime writer from Sweden whose work has created an international sensation. Eriksson's U.S. debut opens a week before Christmas when a Swedish town is rocked by the brutal murder of John Jonsson, a local family man. Detectives, led by a very pregnant Inspector Ann Lindell, at first suspect a chillingly well-drawn psychotic, and they may be right. But if they are not right, that leaves a cunning and vicious murderer on the loose in their town...A page-turner from start to finish, "The Princess of Burundi" catapults Eriksson to the top ranks of international crime fiction writers.

The Cruel Stars of the Night

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 1 May 2007

This spellbinding story opens one snowy day when 35-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Police Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance. And when the corpse of an elderly man does turn up, the dead man is not Laura's father. As single-parent Ann Lindell searches for connections between these crimes, she is distracted by a new and very handsome colleague. And then Laura Hindersten finds herself making a sizzling attempt to seduce a very married man. Both romantic involvements lead to fireworks. When yet another old man is murdered, Inspector Lindell realizes a deranged killer may be closer than she thinks.

The Demon of Dakar

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 29 April 2008

Uppsala, Sweden. A naked man is unearthed from a river with a lacerated neck and the only clue to his identity is the remains of a tattoo that has been sliced off his arm.


When a local drugs deal goes awry and another man is hospitalised with a similar wound, Inspector Ann Lindell and her team are called in to investigate.


All clues lead back to the local Dakar restaurant, run by the gluttonous Slobodan Andersson. As Lindell delves deeper and is drawn into a dangerous maze of kidnap, blackmail, drug smuggling and betrayal, she must face a race against time to catch the killer.Let the Right One In's Ebba Segerberg

The Hand That Trembles

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 2 August 2011

A Swedish county commissioner walks out of a high-level meeting and disappears. Many years later, one of the town's natives is convinced that he's caught a glimpse of the missing man while travelling in Bangalore, India. When the rumours reach his hometown, a veteran police officer stumbles across a seemingly unrelated case. Separately, Ann Lindell, Eriksson's series detective, must investigate a severed female foot found where a striking number of inhabitants are single men. But the owner of the house where the victim is believed to have lived is no longer able to answer any questions...

Black Lies, Red Blood

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 29 April 2014

Uppsala, Sweden. Inspector Ann Lindell has little time to enjoy her new relationship with journalist Anders Brant before he leaves on an assignment, and she is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Klara Lovisa Bolinder.


When Lindell's colleagues discover the body of a murdered homeless man the evidence suggests that Brant could be involved. Lindell is forced to battle her fears about her relationship if she is to discover what happened to Klara and as the Uppsala Police Department unearth more information about the homeless man, they fear they may be looking for a serial killer . . .

Open Grave

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 14 July 2015

In this new book in the Ann Lindell series, Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in his otherwise quiet upper-class neighborhood. Not everybody is happy with the choice of winner. Mysterious incidents start to occur. Boyish pranks say the police, but what follows is certainly not innocent amusement. Police inspector Ann Lindell becomes involved in the case and immediately is transported back into her own past. Eriksson has been nominated for the Best Swedish Crime Novel five times. Open Grave, the sixth book in his series, is a chilling novel about renunciation and revenge.

Stone Coffin

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 17 November 2016

A bright June morning. A mother and daughter are run over and killed on the road to Uppsala. Was it an accident or deliberate attack? That same morning the deceased woman's husband also disappears. He recently bought a property in the Dominican Republic, but when a macabre discovery is made in a nearby forest it becomes clear he hasn't departed for sunnier climes.
It is up to Inspector Ann Lindell to piece together the clues and motives that tore this family apart.

The Night of the Fire

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 17 November 2020

The Ann Lindell Mysteries, Books 1-3

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 15 December 2015

The Deathwatch Beetle

by Kjell Eriksson

Published 23 November 2021