Maria Wern

It's reassuring when teenagers keep themselves busy at home on their computers. At least then you know where they are. Don't you? A 14-year old girl disappears on her way home from a film night at school. Her lifeless body is found in the forest the next day. Detective Inspector Maria Wern is assigned the unpleasant task of informing the father. When another girl disappears, panic begins to spread, media blames the police's inefficiency and parents turn vigilante. Can Maria Wern solve the murder before the crisis escalates out of control?

When a woman is found murdered at a rest area in Kronviken, Detective Inspector Maria Wern becomes involved in the investigation. The woman's body is severely burned, her clothes are in shreds and the blue synthetic cap has melted over her face. Who is she? And is there a connection with the pyromaniac's deed? Anna Jansson's mysteries often ask pressing questions about the present day and the world we live in. Can a child's make-believe world become such an important place of refuge that it can't be escaped as an adult? Does society have a plan for dealing with the children who are forced to live with parents who are drug addicts or mentally ill?

In The Eternal Flame of Alchemy Detective Inspector Maria Wern struggles with a murderer who turns out to follow the principles of alchemy. The hunt of the fanatic perpetrator goes from an old artist community on Gotland to Kosta Art Hotel on the mainland. The aged glass artist Justus Hartman was one of the last alchemists. What drove him wasn't the thought of gold and wealth, but the mysticism. Tightly bounded, like in a sect, he kept his apprentices. Now someone wants part of the inner secret before Justus dies and an easly morning he is abducted from Visby Hospital in a stolen paratransit mini-van. His nephew, police commissioner Tomas Hartman, looks for his uncle in Mästerby. Everything seems normal in the Glassworks although forty years have gone by. The memory of Angelika, a lost love, makes him loose grip in his marriage. There are thing he was never able to tell his wife. A guilt that has weighed him down for all these years. The tracks lead to the main land. A man is found dead in a glass coffin at Kosta Art Hotel. Maria Wern realizes that there is a connection between the murder and Justus' disappearance. But her new chief, Patrik Hedlund, leads the investigation with a firm grip and won't let her follow her intuition. That turns out to be a catastrophic mistake in the hunt of a murderer who fanatically follows the principles of alchemy.

The annual Medieval Festival is going on in Visby. A secret theater company has taken the St. Clement Church Ruins as their private stage at night. In its center, there is a double tomb from the 12th century where a young woman and an elderly man were buried. They were brutally murdered, butchered in their sleep. History repeats itself in the theater. As an initiation rite, sixteen-year-old Malva must spend a night in the grave and then get out by her own efforts. Maria Wern is approached by Mikael, Malva's father, who is worried. He tells Maria that his wife, Blenda, has been lying in a coma in a nursing home ever since she was hit by a drunk driver a year ago. Malva has not been seen since Wednesday, when she was visiting her mother at Katarinagården. Attending an office party, Maria Wern meets a firefighter and falls head over heels in love. He is a member of the theater company where he plays the part of Gregory, a friar dedicated to a life in chastity and poverty. Does he know what happened to Malva? In the thirteenth book in Anna Jansson's cherished series about Maria Wern, the detective must set her life at stake in order to find out what really happened in When Beauty Came to Town.

The fires mighty spirit rested upon the room. The smell of fire scared him, but at the same time it was fascinating. He dropped a burning match in the trashcan among clutter and turpentine. It was as if the trash came to life. In the heat the can got curved and formed the shape of a face that penetrated the soft plastic. He didn't dare to move, though it was burning everywhere. The fire hypnotized him. It crackled as if the burning face would try to tell him something ... a secret about the dead children on mother's framed picture. Eleven-year-old Leo has lost his mother in a fire. When he moves to Visby with his father a series of fires starts in the same neighborhood. One victim in the fire is the wife of an politician who recently has being subjected to harassment. It becomes Maria Wern's task seek if the fires has some connection to each other. Clues lead her to a gang that has stayed together since high school. A group of friend where the fireman Björn is one of them. The same Björn that Maria has fallen deeply in love with. A Dance on Glowing Embers is a book about greed, about the forces that do not hesitate to use other people's vulnerability and longing for love.

The 90-year-old Heinz Meyer is found shot in Ronehamn. Who would want to murder a 90-year-old? And why? Heinz Meyer was one of the German soldiers who came to Gotland after World War II, wounded in battles near the Baltics. At the same time, 500 concentration camp prisoners arrived on the island to receive care at the Lärbro military hospital. It was a ghost brigade of emaciated, severely mentally and physically traumatized prisoners who were placed in the same hospital as the German soldiers. The nurses were given strict orders not to speak to the concentration camp patients and had no idea what they had been through. It becomes Maria Wern's task to investigate the murder of Heinz Meyer, while wedding preparations are also underway. But what is happening at her children's summer camp also demands her attention. There is a girl, Mirela, who seems to be in distress. What has she been through?

An aging school photographer is brutally assaulted in his home on northern Gotland. Someone has tried to set fire to his archive. He is found dead four days later. Tomas Hartman's mother is beaten and left in the woods to die. She vaguely remembers that someone was filming her. When Maria Wern takes over the investigation, the killer threatens to expose Maria's private life to the public. 'Maybe that's the only weapon needed in the future,' speculates Per Arvidsson, 'public shame.' In her new crime novel, Anna Jansson addresses highly topical themes. With a single click on a computer, an image can reach thousands of followers in a network. What happens when we carelessly post pictures from our lives on Facebook? Who gets access to them? In the wrong hands, our most private images can be made public. And what are we prepared to do to escape the shame?

In Tingstäde, a Viking-era assembly site on Gotland, a group of people has gathered to await the end of the world. Since the mid-1700s, the knowledge of the final days has been passed down in the Runö family. An astronomical clock from the time of Christoffer Polhem and a handwritten letter are the family heirlooms that have been carried forward to our time. Ulrika Bodin works at the university. She is preparing a lecture on Christoffer Polhem. While conducting research in Tingstäde, she meets a mysterious man and falls passionately in love with him-a passion that drives her to betray the life choices she once made. The weather that summer seems completely out of joint. Storms reach hurricane strength, and all boat traffic is canceled. Maria Wern's husband is stranded on the mainland. She would have needed his support and help with the children when she is appointed to lead the investigation of a brutal murder of a woman. Prisoners of Fear is Anna Jansson's new crime novel in the successful series about Maria Wern.

he late-summer warmth lingers on Gotland. Maria Wern is at a party with her new neighbors in Åminne when an explosive fire breaks out in a nearby house. The incident is linked to a series of burglaries in the summer cottage area. The following morning, Tomas Hartman's daughter, Sofi, vanishes without a trace from the beach in Åminne. On behalf of Region Gotland, she had been investigating the consequences of oil drilling on the island. Her disappearance occurs the day before the results are to be presented. Both environmental activists and venture capitalists in the oil industry are eagerly awaiting her findings. The protests against oil drilling are led by Rasmus Flöjel, Sofi's boyfriend during high school. More and more people are joining the demonstration. Tomas Hartman fights a desperate race against time to find his daughter. He knows how anxious and vulnerable she truly is, and how hard she must struggle against her own demons.

Detective Inspector Jesper Ek has fallen head over heels in love. But his new love, Julia, is a mystery. What is it she doesn't want to tell? When her past catches up with her, the trap closes around Ek, leaving him in a terrible predicament where he can't even turn to his colleagues for help. Maria Wern is called to the rectory in Lärbro and realizes it holds many secrets. According to legend, a priest was slain in the church in the 13th century, and it is said that the killer still walks the earth. The young priest Alva has been threatened, and the deacon Ragnar is deeply worried that she isn't taking the threats seriously. When Maria discovers scrapbooks about Alva that the deacon has compiled, new questions arise. On Gotland, the Mother Goddess-holding snakes in her hands-has been worshiped since the Stone Age. It is in this setting that Anna Jansson's new, thrilling crime novel about Maria Wern unfolds.

Close to the water. He goes there often, each time with a new woman by his side. Are they there willingly? Maria Wern is busy with a disappearance. Cecilia, who suffers from a heart condition, has been missing for several days without her medication-finding her is a race against time. Unfortunately, the list of suspects grows with every interview they conduct. Maria's colleague, Per Arvidsson, has been struck by tragedy. His six-year-old daughter, Wilma, is gravely ill. Without a new heart, she will not survive. This drives Arvidsson's ex-wife to consider other-and illegal-ways to keep their daughter alive. The threads tie together in an unexpected way, and Maria Wern realizes that the person she's been looking for has been one step ahead all along. Will she uncover the truth before it's too late? Anna Jansson weaves together the best of Gotland's atmosphere and gripping crime storytelling-so get ready for another pulse-raising tale with Maria Wern in the lead role.

Maria Wern has been struck by tragedy. Her husband, Björn, is paralyzed from the neck down, and she now cares for him at home. When a body is found in the waters below Högklint, she is forced to hand over more responsibility to the personal assistants. Though she trusts them, something about the situation doesn't feel right. On Midsummer night, nineteen-year-old Elin Rute is awakened to a nightmare-her beloved Oliver lies murdered outside the summer house in Djupvik. Her parents begin acting in a disturbingly strange manner, and Elin is forced to take an action that will haunt her for a long time to come.

Twenty-year-old Agnes has been subjected to abuse for a long time. She confides in a midwife who has started a secret Facebook group called Ullsaxen. Agnes tells her story, and at last she finds understanding. Meanwhile, suspected but acquitted rapists and sex offenders begin falling victim to an anonymous killer. The men are found naked, with the name Erinya carved into their skin. Beside the bodies lies a wool shear that has been used to mutilate them. Maria Wern's colleague, Jarita, must endure yet another trial when the men who raped her appeal their conviction to the Svea Court of Appeal. This time, one of the men goes free-but he would have been safer behind bars. Maria and her colleagues receive reinforcements at the station in the form of Ragnarsson, nicknamed 'Ragnarrök,' from the national crime unit on the mainland. But he hinders the investigation, and Maria begins to suspect that he is protecting someone-or that he may be involved himself.