When the Night Ends - Swedish Crime

Crime novel | Awarded the Swedish Crime Prize 2023
By Christoffer Carlsson
Translated from Swedish by Ulla Ackermann

464 pages. Hardcover. 21 cm.

The Halland crime novel by criminologist and highly acclaimed author Christoffer Carlsson is a gripping novel about guilt, separation and forgiveness.

On a cold winter morning in 1999, 18-year-old Mikael Söderström is found beaten to death in Skavböke, Halland. He and his friends had been at a party the night before, but no one in the village can or wants to believe that one of them is the culprit. During the investigation, the police repeatedly come across two names: Killian Persson and Sander Eriksson. But nothing can be proven against the unlikely pair, who have been inseparable since childhood. The trail runs dry.
When Mikael's younger brother is murdered in Skavböke 20 years later, Vidar Jörgensson of the Halmstad police takes over the case. His investigation leads back to the events of that time. But on the bright summer nights, boundaries begin to dissolve, shimmering like the light, blurring the past and present.

"One of the best crime novels of the year, superbly written and atmospheric, about growing up and dreams, old lies, and new insights." Dagens Nyheter

Christoffer Carlsson , born in 1986, grew up outside Marbäck on the west coast of Sweden. He received his doctorate in criminology from Stockholm University and was awarded the European Society of Criminology's Young Criminologist Award in 2012. In 2013, at the age of 27, he received the Swedish Crime Fiction Prize for his debut novel, "The Tower of Dead Souls." The series about police officer Leo Junker is published in 20 countries and has been made into a film. His novel, "Under the Storm," has so far been sold in ten countries and was nominated for the Swedish Crime Fiction Prize in 2019.

Ulla Ackermann , born in 1978, studied Scandinavian and German studies in Münster/Westphalia and Lund. After graduating, she lived in Stockholm for several years. Since 2015, she has worked as a freelance translator in Kiel, translating novels and non-fiction books from Swedish and Norwegian by, among others, Christoffer Carlsson, Maria Turtschaninoff, and the author duo Pascal Engman & Johannes Selåker.

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