There is a terrible storm kicking up in a little seaside town. The majority of it’s inhabitants are safely tucked in their homes, but three men are still at the local hotel, having their customary game of cards and a nightcap. Then one of the gentlemen decides to make his way home. The wind is blowing fiercely, adding difficulty to his already inebriated step and he loses ten matches trying to get his cigar lit. Ducking into the doorway of an abandoned house, he tries […]

A man is out walking his dog on the beach in Sandhamn, in the Stockholm archipelago. It’s a beautiful summer morning, but then his dachshund comes upon the body of a man caught up in a fishing net at the shores edge and the storybook idyll is shattered. Thomas Andreasson is a detective in the serious crimes unit at Nacka, a municipality that is considered a suburb of Stockholm. He’s looking forward to his upcoming vacation, which he will spend on the island of Haro, […]

This was a delightful little Maigret mystery. It’s March, just when the Inspector is just beginning to find Paris oppressive. His wife is off in Alsace, attending the delivery of her sister’s child, so when he receives a letter from an old colleague inviting him to the Dordogne, he happily accepts. That night on the train, he spends too much time in the dining car (naturally) and when he returns to his first class berth, he finds it occupied. He is found a place to […]