Åke Edwardson’s short story, “Stairway From Heaven,” was named a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Short Story!

Named a Pick of the Week for the week of February 29th by Publishers Weekly

“Grouped under three headings, the 13 stories in this outstanding entry in Akashic’s noir series capture the gloomy underside of Sweden’s capital, portraying the hopelessness of those trapped in what Larson and Edenborg in their introduction call the city that devours your soul.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred review

“Coedited by local authors Larson and Edenborg, this superb sampling of Swedish crime writing talent, some of whose work has been translated into English for the first time here, will be appreciated by fans of Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ trilogy and Jens Lapidus’s Easy Money; they will enjoy getting to know these authors, who write about Stockholm’s dark side.”
—Library Journal

“Akashic’s multivolume Noir series returns to Scandinavia, focusing this time on the capital city of Sweden, a country that is famously neutral in time of war but is also a large-scale dealer in arms. . . . Another worthy entry in this globe-trotting mystery series.”
—Booklist

“Larson and Edenborg manage to unearth a dark side to a city that is verdant, clean, and surrounded by crystalline water. . . . Stockholm may not be Marseille, but Larson and Edenborg’s contributors show that even a verdant place with socialized medicine can have its seamy side.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“The series offers the best of bite-sized crime stories from all over the world—you can’t go wrong!”
—Book Riot

“On the heels of editions set in Copenhagen and Helsinki comes Stockholm Noir, edited by Nathan Larson and Carl-Michael Edenborg with a predictably discerning eye for stories that wring suspense, violence, and worry from social and political issues percolating in a given milieu.”
—Village Voice

“This book is part of the award-winning Akashic Books noir anthologies, each of which highlight one location. In Stockholm Noir, the beautiful and pure city of Stockholm that tourists know is juxtaposed against the dark and gritty noir side of the city. Fans of popular Swedish mystery authors like Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson may be interested in branching out into a different genre with this book.”
—Hibbing Daily Tribune

“This one shows you the dark corners of Sweden. My mind pictures white blondes in ski clothes. That’s not who you read about in these stories . . .”
—Journey of a Bookseller

“This high-class anthology set in Sweden’s capital city exposes the queasy realities of social inequality, soul-diminishing isolation, bigotry and brutality in thirteen separate stories that offer an unflinchingly grim picture of the Scandinavian urban environment. This is midnight noir indeed—but the editors skilfully balance this collection of previously unpublished, contemporary tales with slices of satire, sardonic observations and even a sprinkling of supernatural whimsy.”
—Murder, Mayhem & More