Crime | Jenny Rogneby

The beginning to a new series by celebrated crime writer Jenny Rogneby. With her new character Angela Lans, Rogneby plays with the reader’s perspective in unexpected ways and creates a story with overthrowing twists.

A young woman is brutally assaulted after a night out with a friend. The attacker is found and convicted, now serving his sentence. But as his release approaches, mediator Angela Lans is brought in. She has been appointed to run a pilot project where, for the first time, mediation is offered between victim and perpetrator in a high-profile case. The two will meet again and talk about the incident under the careful supervision of Angela. The purpose of the mediation is to provide resolution for the victim, and to help the perpetrator back into society. But as the meetings progress, nothing goes as Angela has planned. Soon new information comes to light – information that makes Angela question what really happened between the two. Going against the principles of the mediation, she begins to investigate the case herself and makes several unexpected discoveries.

The Mediator (Medlaren)

486 pages | First published in Swedish by Ordfront 2022

"Anyone who has read the Leona series knows that Jenny Rogneby has the ability to weave together a crime story that is as thrilling as it is heart-pounding. In The Mediator, which is inspired by a real case, the author exceeds all expectations."

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Alongside the mediation, Angela battles her own demons: both the circumstances surrounding her mentally ill sister, and her relationship with her new love interest Liam, who is perfect in every way – perhaps a little too perfect.

The Mediator is inspired by a real case and the first part in a new series that begins where other crime novels end. Rogneby, a former criminologist, writes with great vigor and authenticity about social issues with credible characters against a vivid backdrop, keeping readers on the edge of their seats all the way.

"With The Mediator, the Stockholm noir genre has gained a deeper and more ambiguous representative. Reading it is an extraordinary experience."

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JENNY ROGNEBY (b. 1974) is an author and criminologist. For seven years she worked professionally as a Criminal Investigator at Stockholm City Police Department. The work inspired her to start writing The Leona Series, a Swedish best-selling crime series that has been translated to 14 languages. In 2022, Jenny Rogneby published the first book in her new crime series which follows the mediator Angela Lans, and the next book will be published 2023.

"Jenny Rogneby has written a thrilling book, a real page-turner. The story takes hold of the reader and it is difficult to stop reading the book until the resolution (…) Jenny Rogneby also skilfully avoids ending up in clichés and manages to make the language genuine and striking."

The second part in the chilling psychological thriller series Deadly Sins that follows theatre director Muska Meriläinen. For fans of of Erik Axl Sund and True Detective!

Rebel theatre director Muska Meriläinen has left for Spain to forget the life-threatening play she was victim of – feeling guilty that she left her son behind. Unexpectedly, she learns that her former protégé and friend Joanna has disappeared in the same Spanish town where Muska now spends her holiday. With the help of of another former addict, Pilar, Muska starts tracking Joanna’s life on the merciless shadow side of the Costa del Sol, in the middle of drug dealers, human trafficking and prostitution. Soon she discovers that Joanna was involved in a website that livestreams the brutal murder of a woman each month. A feverish race against the clock begins, Muska must find where Joanna is being held captive before the next monthly murder takes place. The sadistic criminal network has even infiltrated the police and are close behind Muska and her new friend Pilar. Now, the two women are now in risk of becoming victims of the horrible show.

The House Upon the Rock

(Joka kalliolle rakentaa)

304 pages | First published in Finnish by Like 2023

The House upon the Rock is the second book in the blood-curdling Deadly Sins series.

SAMULI LAIHO (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based author, songwriter, musician, and producer.

Play with Fire

(Sielun palomies)

300 pages | First published in Finnish by Like 2021

Ambitious star director Muska Meriläinen is in the middle of preparations for the most important premiere of her career, an adaption of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 at the National Theatre in Helsinki, when she starts to receive disturbing messages by someone calling himself the Firefighter of the Soul.

Soon a raw death case is revealed in the capital, and ex-police officer Kaarle Meriläinen fears that there is a connection between the act of violence and his daughter’s harassment.

Just before the premiere of her play, Muska disappears and Kaarle is convinced that the mysterious events around his daughter reach further back to his last case, which threw his life off the tracks and led him through a mental hospital to becoming a priest.

Play with Fire is the fast-paced opening of the thriller series Deadly Sins. It takes the reader straight to Helsinki’s cultural scene and nightlife, into a world of addicts, occultism and revenge as it forces one into the core of evil, the mind of a psychopath.

From a young age, Laiho dedicated himself to music and became guitarist of legendary band Hearthill. However, the party ended after only four years and the band broke up. The young artist turned to drugs and alcohol. Eventually, he sobered up, started to study music and went on to become a successful songwriter and composer of pop songs. But he grew tired of the pop-scene and turned to writing novels and started the thriller series Deadly Sins in 2021 with his third book.. His protagonist, Muska Meriläinen is a strong and intellectual character through whom the author also keeps the spirit of his rock ‘n’ roll years alive.

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