Johan Rundberg

An Outstanding International Book (USBBY) A 2025 TEACHERS’ FAVORITE! Mika will do what it takes to uncover a string of thefts in the city—and keep her fellow orphans safe. After a merciless winter, spring has sprung in 1880 Stockholm, and the city awaits the arrival of the SS Vega, the first...

Mika is finally meeting her mother. It should be a cause for celebration. Instead, it’s one of caution as she is drawn into a dark and twisted mystery. Now thirteen, Mika has left behind her Stockholm orphanage for a treacherous journey with Detective Hoff to finally meet her mother, Annie...

Der Frühling ist endlich in Stockholm angekommen und die ganze Stadt fiebert auf die Ankunft der SS Vega hin. Doch gleichzeitig werden immer mehr Fälle von Taschendiebstählen bekannt und Inspektor Valdemar Hoff zieht Mika zurate.

Mika will do what it takes to make sure there are no more lost ones—and to bring the infamous killer, the Dark Angel, out into the light. It’s summer in 1880 Stockholm, and the city bakes in the heat—but the heat on twelve-year-old Mika is lifting. After lying low following the dramatic...

A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Global Literature in Libraries YA Translated Book Prize A USBBY Outstanding International Book Mika is not your average twelve-year-old—and she’s about to prove it. It’s 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every...

An Outstanding International Book (USBBY) A 2026 KIDS FAVORITE! The bluff of a lifetime… It started off innocently enough. Mo just wanted to catch a girl’s eye. She was this super-talented and mysterious skater girl who looked like she had the universe all figured out. So Mo did what any...