Travel Destination: Sweden
Robber Girl by S.T. Gibson
In a Sweden wracked by war and haunted by folk stories, Helvig has been raised by her brigand father to steal whatever treasure catches her eye. When her men ambush a girl on the road with hair pale as death and a raven perched on her shoulder, Helvig cannot resist bringing home a truly unique prize: a genuine witch.
As Christmastide gives way to the thin-veiled days when ghosts are at their most vengeful, the two women find themselves on a journey through forest and Samiland to a final confrontation that will either redeem them or destroy them entirely.
Hanna’s Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
Anna has returned from visiting her mother. Restless and unable to sleep, she wanders through her parents’ house, revisiting the scenes of her childhood. In a cupboard drawer, folded and pushed away from sight, she finds a sepia photograph of her grandmother, Hanna, whom she remembers as old and forbidding, a silent stranger enveloped in a huge pleated black dress. Now, looking at the features Anna recognises as her own, she realises she is looking at a different woman from the one of her memory.
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.
But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night.
Dark Pines by Will Dean
An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature is forced to venture deep into a dense spruce forest to investigate a story that could make her career, a pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods, that could be related to a case 20 years ago.
The Wolf’s Time by Oskar Östlund
In the tranquil Swedish coastal town of Skutskär, the summer of 2004 turns into a nightmarish apocalyptic fever dream.
A group of friends whose summer plans involve LAN parties and chilling are abruptly interrupted when an unknown entity descends on them from the sky during a meteor shower, They are forced to confront their deepest fears and darkest nightmares to survive a foe unlike anything they have known before.
