European Cold Cases

Branded (Gads Forlag, 2026) follows local reporter Vera Bergström as she investigates a 28-year-old murder case from Storlien in northern Sweden. Sara Strömberg's crime novel depicts the murder of a father and two children, while the mother's disappearance still haunts the local community.

The Living and the Dead (Penguin Michael Joseph, 2026) follows the murder of 18-year-old Mikael Söderström in Skavböke in 1999. Christoffer Carlsson depicts in this novel how an unsolved crime in Halland casts shadows twenty years into the future.

Alexander Toro Moellmann was sentenced to life imprisonment on October 1, 2025, in the Eastern High Court for the murder of 32-year-old pregnant Louise Borglit in Elverparken in Herlev. The case was solved after several years of investigation with the help of a controversial prison agent with the alias Frank.

European Cold Cases (Europa Editions, 2025) is a comprehensive work that maps a number of the most complex and unresolved crimes across the European continent over the last few decades.