Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Watch Her Die | 2018 | N/A |
| Hunting Game / Hunting Ground | 2019 | Buy |
| Dead of Night | 2019 | N/A |
| Winter Grave | 2019 | Buy |
| Snowdrift | 2020 | Buy |
Deborah Lucy’s five-book series featuring Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom ran from 2018 to 2020 and found an audience among readers drawn to Nordic Noir fiction. Nystrom is a Swedish detective whose cases take her into the isolated landscapes of rural Sweden, places where communities are small, histories are long, and the darkness of winter makes everything feel more pressing.
The series began with Watch Her Die in 2018 and moved quickly through five books, with three appearing in 2019 alone. The pace of publication suggests a writer with a clear vision for her character and setting, building the world efficiently across a tight run of novels.
For readers who enjoy the atmospheric procedural tradition of Nordic crime fiction, from Henning Mankell through to the more recent wave of Scandinavian thrillers, Lucy’s Embla Nystrom books offer a self-contained series worth reading start to finish.