Lars Wilderäng

2016. The identity of every Swedish Secret service agent has accidentally been revealed, and for the first time in decades the nation stands without eyes and ears on the ground. When an unexpected discovery is made on Gotland, Hanna Hjerta from the Special Forces Command is sent to the site to investigate. 

And so the action-packed spy thriller series about Hanna Hierta commences, depicting high-stake events and international power play uncomfortably close to reality. By depicting the increasing threat of foreign drones, undercover surveillance ops in the midst of the pandemic, and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Wilderäng sheds important light on the urgency of our geopolitical reality. Through the fires, we follow Hanna Hierta, and the challenges and horrors she must face on her way.

Four novels in the bestselling series have been published to date: Drone Heart (2021), King's Heart (2022), Ice Heart (2023), and Warrior Heart (2024). The fifth novel, Hunter's Heart, will be out in Swedish stores in 2025.

Thor works at the most secret department of the Swedish security services, doing so called ‘wet works’. His missions are completely illegal and must never reach public knowledge. By relying on information from a top secret source who almost magically always seems to have just the right information, they are able to avert planned terrorist attacks time and time again. When Thor tries to investigate the source, it leads him to an even more secret organisation: Marviken Accounting Department. An organisation whose work proves to be something far beyond his wildest expectations. Soon he finds himself tangled up in a conspiracy so immense that it has altered the very foundations Sweden is built upon. But Sweden has many old grudges and enemies, who will stop at nothing to reach their objectives.  

Marviken Accounting Department – a mix of spy novel, action thriller and science fiction with historical elements – takes the reader from the fields of Poltava, through the savage battles of WWII and the secrets of the cold war, to a contrafactive Sweden where everything is at stake. 

Those who live on borrowed money live on borrowed time.

The year is 2002. Stockholm is recovering from the dot-com crash, and the economy is looking brighter. At a bar, Mikael meets Lotta, and befor long they begin their journey on the property ladder. Over the following years, they move from apartment to apartment, with ever-increasing loans. There isn't a cloud in the clear blue housing sky, and Mikael starts speculating in newly built apartments, as a safe investment.

But when property prices plummet, Mikael’s fall is hard and brutal. He soon finds himself at the bottom of society, with nothing left. When Mikael picks up a rumour that someone close to him is being threatened, no one wants to listen. Alone and desperate, he acquires a gun and sets a plan in motion. Soon, he is drawn into a spiral of violence impossible to stop.

Downfall is a thriller in the vein of Falling Down, about social injustices and how close we all are to the brink of personal bankruptcy.

It’s early September, and yet another submarine hunt is underway in the Stockholm archipelago. This time a civilian manages to capture something on camera, something that puts immense pressure on the already fragile state of security.

Major Johanna Bergäng is focusing all her energy on training her reserve company rather than on her broken relationship. Her ex, Jonas Vindelby, has started working as a contingency officer in Uppsala, while his brother Christian is assigned to bodyguard the eccentric and difficult-to-handle Foreign Minister. Soon, they all begin to realise that the safe reality they for long took for granted is slowly but surely changing.

At the General Staff in Moscow, a colonel makes a life-altering decision. Meanwhile, a US special forces unit in Iraq makes a discovery with dire consequences. Nothing is as it seems. Hundreds of thousands of lives are at danger, and hidden forces are working to escalate the situation further. Who is really pulling the strings as the world takes this terrifying turn?

Autumn Sun and Autumn Rain is a dramatic two-part military thriller series set in a future disturbingly close to our own, rooted in today’s geopolitical situation.

Something is not right with the increasing number of broken phones. They are completely dead, filled with dust that spreads quickly and irritates the airways. Then the cars stop working, and soon other electronics too. Grocery stores are being emptied of food, and no new deliveries are in sight. The dark autumn transitions into a starry winter where chaos reigns and few survive.

Lars Wilderäng’s Star Trilogy takes its start where modern society breaks down, in what is later to be called the Blackout. Ten years later, the humanity that remains realises that it was just the beginning. That they must face an enemy they know nothing about, worse than the most terrifying nightmare. An enemy that is perhaps already among them.

Start Light (2014), Star Fall (2015) and Star Dust (2016) form an apocalyptic sci-fi series, commencing in a total world power outage, ending in a desperate fight for mankind’s survival against a superior alien invasion.

2012. Early in the morning of Boxing Day, holidaying Swedes wake up to a new world. A powerless, dark, and freezing day, when everything changes. A large Russian military exercise in the Baltic Sea has turned into a full-scale attack on the completely unprepared Sweden. The disaster is total: the Prime Minister is missing, key public functions are shut down, and the downsized defence is on the verge of collapse. As the death toll rises, we follow several individuals struggling during a day that shakes the nation to its core.

Eleven years later, when hungover Swedes wake up on Midsummer's Day morning, all phone and internet communications are cut off. On TV and radio, the Supreme Commander announces that Russia has launched new aggressions against Sweden and that the Swedish government has been forced to resign. Is this a terrifying repetition of the deadly Boxing Day War of 2012?

The best selling duology Midwinter Darkness (2011) and Midsummer Dawn (2013) was Lars Wilderäng’s breakthrough as an author, and delivers fast-paced military techno to new readers still today.