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Author
Series
Ann Lindell novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Years after the mysterious disappearance of a Swedish county commissioner, a veteran police officer stumbles on a seemingly unrelated case while Ann Lindell investigates the murder of a woman in a housing development populated by single men.
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Description
If and when Lisbeth Salander recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions...
63) Winter grave
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Two young kids are missing. A police officer is found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must quickly solve the mystery and find the children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Kurt Wallander moves into a dream home with his girlfriend for a new start for the both of them. Wallander's dog unearths a skeleton buried under fruit trees in the back yard. It's a girl that was murdered 10 years ago. Wallander tries to solve the case as quickly as possible. At the same time a disembodied arm is found washed up on the beach at Ystad and he finds himself investigating two cases, years apart.
65) The fire witness
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When a medium contacts the police department with claims about a murder at a rural home for wayward girls, detective Joona Linna investigates bizarre clues only to find himself confronting more violent truths and a figure from his past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog investigate the murder of a former Olympic skier found bound and beaten in the woods at a Swedish ski resort, in the second novel of the series following Hidden in Snow.
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
Author
Series
Detective Varg novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"The Department of Sensitive Crimes is downsizing in light of a recent downturn of sensitive crime, and staff members are wondering who among them will be transferred elsewhere. As the bickering between colleagues intensifies, Ulf tries his best to stay above the fray. But when Anna, a longtime friend and coworker, appears to blame him for an old case that went sideways, it seems she may be putting her own job prospects above their friendship. In...
69) Mammon in Malmö
Author
Series
Publisher
McNidder Grace Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Anita Sundström, out of the force for a year after her resignation, is approached by a dying woman to track down a collection of paintings stolen from her family. The paintings were looted by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. But needing the money, Anita takes on this seemingly impossible task. As she heads off to Hungary, she has no idea of the dangers ahead.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Collects five mystery stories that detail Kurt Wallander's journey from a twenty-one-year-old rookie police officer to a first-rate detective.
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkak, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway. Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that the murder of his Nazi-sympathiser brother is drawing the attention of the authorities on both sides of the border. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened to their courier,...
72) The trio
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically. The novel opens years later, when Hugo, long estranged from Thora and August, is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories...
73) After the fire
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out...
74) The mirror man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In the latest installment of the Killer Instinct series, seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape... and once caught they rarely survive their punishment. Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and...
75) Stone coffin
Author
Series
Ann Lindell novels volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the Prize for Best Swedish Crime Novel. On a sunny morning in June, a young woman and her six-year old daughter are run over by a car on the road to Uppsala. Both are killed immediately. Is it an accident, or did someone kill them on purpose? The same morning the husband of the deceased young woman disappears. During the police investigation, it turns out that the husband had recently bought a property in the Dominican Republic, something...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Intruder is an unusual story about betrayal and dark secrets. The Andersson family is being sent scary letters without a sender's name. Who could possibly want to harm them? Gotland policeman Fredrik Broman and his colleagues take the threats seriously, but cannot rule out the possibility that it is all a tasteless joke. When the threats escalate and the couple's daughter disappears, all doubts vanish. This is for real. And it is only the beginning....
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Stockholm Homicide Squad's Inspector Martin Beck is assigned to search for Alf Matsson, a vanished Swedish journalist, and finds himself becoming involved in an international racket that leads him to some enigmatic Eastern European underworld figures.
Author
Series
Detective Varg novels volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention Ulf's struggle to contain his feelings for his colleague Anna...
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