Böcker av Stefan Mani

Evil is at large... A member of the parliament is stabbed to death in Reykjavik, the small and usually peaceful capital of Iceland. Police officer Grímsson thinks he saw the perpetrator earlier that night, in a pub in the city¿s east end. The young man turns himself in. He has no previous record and does not remember anything about the night of the murder, but his fingerprints are on the murder weapon. Grímsson feels that the young man is somehow innocent, a victim rather than a wrongdoer.The day before the murder, Grímsson was called to a storage unit after a human skull was found there. The man who rented the unit, a known drug user and an anarchist, previously committed suicide. In the unit, Grímsson found books on black magic and hypnotism, a black mirror, black candles and a makeshift altar.The leader of the anarchist gang is Aron Beck, a dangerous sociopath serving time in prison. When another brutal murder takes place, and another unlikely perpetrator is captured-a young woman who disappeared from a bar the night before-Grímsson begins to wonder if Aron Beck is somehow behind all this madness. But how?The clock is ticking and yet another murder is brewing in the black cauldron of an evil mind..."Rarely has reading a book caused such frightening, dark and threatening feelings" - DIE WELT (Germany)Das Schiff (The Ship) by Stefán Máni

Detective H. Grímsson is no stranger to death. When he was 19, an avalanche killed his parents and younger siblings. Since then, he has faced death himself many times. To others, Grímsson appears almost as a thing out of some legend: 6'4" tall and built like a wrestler, with a permanent scowl and wiry, rust-colored hair, wearing a long black leather coat that makes him less approachable than the Creature from the Black Lagoon. But he is a city detective, and a damn good one at that, owing much to what he calls his uncanny intuition. However, that's only half the truth of it-detective Grímsson is clairvoyant and frequently sees the grim shadow of death before it approaches. This intimacy of death has saved his skin in the past, but it is not a gift he bears lightly. When it comes to other people and his personal life, Grímsson can be as charming as a troll and as functional as a car with no steering wheel. But when it comes to solving a murder, he won't let go...Evil is at large, again... A young college student is found dead in his BMW on a gravel road not far from the city. He was shot at close range. Grímsson suspects that this has something to do with the nudes that the deceased had in his possession. In August, the deceased and his two college friends were at a party in a small town in western Iceland where a young girl died from a drug overdose. Is there a link?A few days later another college student is found shot dead in his car. This second victim was also at the party. The friends of the deceased are silent as a grave but Grímsson is sure they know something but are afraid to talk to him. What he doesn't know is that a selected group of college students have received anonymous messages from a sinister social media page called Deathbook. Deathbook is playing a dark and dangerous game. It asks the students to give it a name of a person who is making their life miserable. A few days later, the person they name is found dead. Soon after, they get another message-and only then do they realize that they are caught in an evil web they cannot get out of...

Detective H. Grímsson has solved many murder cases and has captured quite a few dangerous criminals and madmen. He is intelligent, hard as nails and very resourceful. But he is also his own worst enemy. After an unfortunate shooting incident in Iceland's largest shopping mall on Christmas Eve, he is demoted to a police deputy in a small rural village in eastern Iceland. Grímsson's plan is to kick back, drink some beer and enjoy this time away from home.When two young female hitchhikers disappear, Grímsson fears that the girls are lost in the highlands or have drowned in the merciless glacial river. But then one of the girls wanders naked into the village and dies in Grimsson's arms. Grímsson organizes a massive search for the second missing girl. Is one of the villagers responsible for the girls' disappearance? The perpetrator could easily be a member of the rescue team looking for the missing girl.When Grímsson finds out that foreign girls have disappeared in the area before, he realizes that he might be dealing with a devious serial killer-a real monster who hides behind an innocent and bland façade. Evil is at large.