Three Hours (A Ewert Grens Thriller, 7) - Hardcover

Award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex criminal Börge Hellström are Sweden's most acclaimed contemporary fiction duo. Their unique ability to combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism in complex, intelligent plots has put them at the forefront of modern Scandinavian crime writing.

Praise for Three Hours

"The Swedes have a lock on hard-hitting crime novels on the order of Three Hours, the latest in a string of superb procedurals written by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom."―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review


"The Ewert Grens series by Anders Roslund and (the late) Borge Hellstrom is one of those rare canons where someone like myself is often at a loss to put forth appropriate superlatives...there is promised at least one more book in the series. On the strength of THREE HOURS, you will want a hundred."
―Joe Hartlaub, BookReporter


"The authors keep the suspense high to the nail-biting end. Fans of action mingled with a moving portrayal of real-life tragedites will be pleased."
―Publishers Weekly


"[In Ewert Grens] the authors have created an eccentric, alienated, socially inept hero worthy of comparison with Swedish mystery master Henning Mankell's Inspector Kurt Wallander."―Wall Street Journal

"Roslund / Hellstrom are among the very best crime novelists around. They write with courage and intensity about the important issues of our time. Extraordinarily compelling."―Daily Mail

Shortlisted for Dutch magazine, Vrij Nederland's Thriller of the Year Award
"Not only is [Three Hours] a thrilling novel with a strong plot, it is an old school Scandinavian thriller that turns a critical eye to the refugee issue and the new cynicism in society."
―Vrij Nederland, Netherlands

"Roslund has done some thorough research. In this suspenseful novel, he not only tells us how smugglers operate, but how men and women in key positions in various aid organizations and in politics actively facilitate the trafficking of refugees for blood money.... Roslund has given his main characters fascinating backgrounds.... In the prologue, Roslund tells us how he got to know Hellström and why they eventually started writing crime novels as a duo. The reason had much to do with social criticism, according to Roslund, the very core of the Swedish crime novel, and with reviving these strong stories. And Three Hours is a striking example of this."―De Standaard, Netherlands

Praise for the Three Seconds Trilogy
"A nail biter of a book."―Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"A thrill-a-minute cat-and-mouse game . . . A grimly amoral tale."―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

"Twisty plot makes for propulsive reading."―Entertainment Weekly