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1) Bad blood
Author
Series
Intercrime volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of the Swedish Intercrime unit investigate the torturing death of a literary critic whose murderer escaped to Stockholm, a case with sinister ties to a presumed-dead serial killer.
4) Night rounds
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a nurse is murdered and another disappears during a hospital blackout, Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit struggles with a report by the crime's only witness, who claims she saw a nurse who died 60 years earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
SOHO Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A triple homicide in one of Goteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods culminates in a frantic investigation for Detective Inspector Irene Huss that is complicated by a dot-com diva who refuses to speak and Irene's partner Tommy's suspicious behavior.
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a bear hunt culminates in the discovery of a brutally murdered woman in a northern Swedish village, Rebecka Martinsson delves into the victim's tragic family history, only to be blocked from the case by an arrogant prosecutor.
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A woman is found dead, apparently the victim of a tragic car crash. It's the first in a spate of seemingly inexplicable accidents in Tanumshede and marks the end of a quiet winter for detective Patrik Hedstrom and his colleagues. At the same time a reality TV show is being shot in the town. As cameras shadow the stars' every move, relations with the locals are strained to breaking point. When a drunken party ends with a particularly unpopular contestant's...
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Silver Oak
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn into an investigation...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Evert Backstrom doesn't have the best sense of style, but he knows a complex crime when he sees one, and the details of a seemingly ordinary murder have gotten under his skin. His colleagues think it is an open-and-shut case. He thinks otherwise. With his patented combination of laziness, luck, and unbelievable sense of timing, Backstrom sets out to solve the crime as only he know how, by aggravating nearly everyone in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage, a divisioin of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first in a trilogy of novels centered around the investigations of a Swedish police officer, Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström, of the National Murder Squad.
11) One step behind
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"On Midsummer s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander s most trusted colleagues someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can t begin to imagine how. Reeling from his own father s death and facing...
12) The ninth grave
Author
Series
Fabian Risk volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""An atmospheric and complicated saga of crimes that criss-cross the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark ... great cop characters ... and some imaginatively grisly perps."--Sunday Times Would you kill for the one you love? That's the question that international bestseller Stefan Ahnhem's The Ninth Grave: A Fabian Risk Novel seeks to answer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a Face. On a cold winter...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping legal thriller that follows one woman's conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction. I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer's dream, said Sophia Weber's old professor. Freeing an innocent man. Thirteen years ago, a fifteen-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one of the most ruthless criminals. When Sophia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A galvanizing new thriller from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author--a stand-alone novel that finds legendary Swedish homicide detective Lars Martin Johansson racing against time to solve one final murder. In the National Criminal Investigation Department he was known as "the man who sees around corners." Now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind him. Or so he thinks. When he finds himself in the hospital...
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