Concerned by the details of the case report, Grens can’t help but think someone capable of such violence must have a history of it. No one, that is, but Detective Ewert Grens. As drunken brawls are commonplace on the Baltic cruising ferries, no one raises an eyebrow. One night, he loses his temper with a man harassing women in the crowd, beating him unconscious. where an outburst of violence on a late-night ferry heading for Sweden links to the fate of an American on death row,” said the Sunday Times.Ī cheap crooner by the name of John Schwarz earns his keep on a ferry between Sweden and Finland singing evergreens for drunken passengers. Heirs apparent to masters of Scandinavian crime Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, “For crime with a political purpose, it’s hard to beat Cell 8.

Roslund and Hellström combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots, propelling them to the forefront of the recent Scandinavian crime fiction sensation and winning them numerous awards, like the prestigious CWA International Dagger.

Visit their website at best-selling and award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex-criminal Börge Hellström are Sweden’s most acclaimed fiction duo.

He worked with the rehabilitation of young offenders and drug addicts, and was one of the founders of the crime prevention organization KRIS (Criminals Return Into Society).Their DCI Ewert Grens novels have won the Glass Key Award, the Best Swedish Crime Novel award, the CWA International Dagger, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, been translated into 31 different languages, and their worldwide sales are approaching 3 million copies.

Biography: Roslund and Hellstroem are Sweden's most acclaimed fiction duo.Award-winning journalist Anders Roslund is the founder and former head of Kulturnyheterna (Culture News) on Swedish television, and for many years worked as a news reporter - specializing in criminal and social issues - and as an Editor-in-chief at Rapport and Aktuellt, Sweden's two foremost news programmes.Boerge Hellstroem (1957-2017) was an ex-convict who brought a unique insight into the brutal reality of criminal life.

Cell 8 by Anders Roslund