Cell 8

A mesmerising crime narrative - Independent

A powerful, multi-layered novel - Guardian

For crime with a political purpose, it’s hard to beat Cell 8 by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom, where an outburst of violence on a late-night ferry heading for Sweden links to the fate of an American on death row. - Sunday Times

Cell 8 is marked by the same surprise element that made their earlier novel, Three Seconds, such a spectacular read. - Time Out

Roslund and Hellstrom are Sweden’s most acclaimed fiction duo.

Award-winning journalist Anders Roslund is the founder and former head of Kulturnyheterna (Culture News) on Swedish television, and for many years worked as a news reporter - specializing in criminal and social issues - and as an Editor-in-chief at Rapport and Aktuellt, Sweden’s two foremost news programmes.

Borge Hellstrom is an ex-convict who brings a unique insight into the brutal reality of criminal life. He now works with the rehabilitation of young offenders and drug addicts, and is one of the founders of the crime prevention organization KRIS (Criminals Return Into Society).

Their DCI Ewert Grens novels have won the Glass Key Award, the Best Swedish Crime Novel award, the CWA International Dagger, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, been translated into 31 different languages, and sold over 2 million copies worldwide.