Marie Jungstedt is a popular Swedish writer, author of detective novels, and former television and radio journalist. Jungstedt's books have been translated into many languages, their total circulation exceeding two million copies. Today, Marie Jungstedt is one of the most widely read authors in Sweden, successfully developing the traditions of the Scandinavian detective story following such internationally recognized masters of the genre as Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell. Several of Jungstedt’s novels formed the basis for the joint Swedish-German series “The Commissioner and the Sea,” which strengthened the writer’s fame. The novel “The Unspeakable” continues Marie Jungstedt’s famous series about the investigation of crimes on the Swedish island of Gotland. Police Commissioner Anders Knutas and his team will have to solve the murder of a drunken photojournalist who, shortly before his death, hit the jackpot in the betting at the hippodrome. Stockholm television is once again sending crime columnist Johan Berg to Gotland. Now he goes to the island with ambivalent feelings, fearing a new meeting with the charming Emma Vinarve... Soon a disturbing event occurs on Gotland - the inexplicable disappearance of a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl. Investigations are being conducted in parallel, since there is no connection between these two crimes. Or maybe there still is? But where is the missing link then? On Christmas Eve, Commissioner Knutas will have a terrible insight...

A real Swedish detective story - exciting, cruel and at the same time psychologically accurate. Hoerzu

“The Unspeakable” is a scary Christmas story from Marie Jungstedt. Chilling horror invades the holiday atmosphere...Svenska Journalen

We recommend it to all fans of Henning Mankell. Mysterylovers. com

Imagine Scandinavia in winter, and you will understand, as Marie Jungstedt writes: simple, without flashy effects, but mesmerizing - you can’t tear yourself away! Fur Sie

Just what you need! Jungstedt is a masterful prose, unrelenting suspense and a gallery of living, flesh and blood characters. Booklist

A fascinating plot, twisted in such a way that even the most experienced reader is at a loss until the very end. Publishers Weekly