The Group

Swedish bestseller Sigge Eklund sets his psychological thriller in the Prado museum's archives in Madrid, where quiet intern Hanna discovers an uncatalogued Goya etching — and lets it pull her into the orbit of three glamorous, wealthy strangers and a world of fraud, obsession, and identity-blurring deception. Comparisons to The Talented Mr. Ripley and Saltburn are apt: this is stylishly atmospheric, the translation is praised as fluid and literary, and the art-world setting gives it a grounding other psychological thrillers lack. The honest caveat: hedonism and drug use are not incidental — they are the texture of the world Hanna enters, and some readers found the ending unsatisfying. This is firmly adult territory. For fans of slow-burn psychological noir with a European sensibility, it delivers.