Inspector Anita Sundstrom is a police detective working in Malmö, Sweden. She investigates murders across the city, dealing with colleagues who do not always take her seriously and cases that are never straightforward. Torquil MacLeod based her working environment on real friendships with police detectives at the Ystad station, and the procedural details feel grounded.
Anita is practical, persistent, and not given to dramatic speeches. She does her job, pushes back when she is sidelined, and keeps working the case when others have given up. Across eleven books, she has become one of the more distinctive voices in Nordic crime fiction, partly because the author writing her is Scottish rather than Scandinavian, which gives the whole series an outsider’s eye on Swedish life.
Read the Inspector Anita Sundstrom books in order.