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Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh (Los Angeles Times).
Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes....
Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes....
Author
Series
Malin Fors novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Malin Fors, a divorced mother of a teenager and talented police superintendent in a small, isolated town, investigates the murder of an obese man who was found hanging from an oak tree, naked and horribly mutilated, in the middle of a snow-covered plain outside of town.
Author
Series
Linda Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
5) Lazarus
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The latest installment in the internationally best-selling Joona Linna series sees the Swedish detective on the trail of the worst serial killer he's seen yet. Across the continent, someone is brutally murdering Europe's worst criminals. Who can object to taking out rapists, arsonists, human traffickers? But when two of the victims have a direct connection to detective Joona Linna, it's clear to him that somebody's trying to send him a message. His...
6) The lost boy
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Detective Patrik Hedström is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjällbacka's dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes. It seems Mats was a man everybody liked yet nobody knew--a man with something to hide"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.
8) Snowdrift
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström receives a phone call that sends her reeling. It's been fifteen years since Embla's best friend disappeared from a nightclub in Gothenburg, but Embla recognizes her voice immediately, though the call quickly disconnects. Lollo is still alive. But before Embla can dive into the case, she gets another phone call, this time from her cousin. A man has been found shot to death in one of...
10) Cell 8
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Silver Oak
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....
Author
Series
High coast novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While investigating the disappearance of a man reported missing by his wife, police officer Eira Sjödin, knowing the pain of loss, loses herself in an affair with her boss until he, too, disappears, leaving her at the mercy of an elusive perpetrator -- and a love she can no longer deny.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Late one night, outside Stockholm, an emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman....
15) The ice princess
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
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....
18) Three minutes
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 6
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Presumed dead by the Stockholm police -- with a couple of notable exceptions, including homicide detective Ewert Grens -- master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in South America. Hoffmann stays in touch with his former police handler, Erik Wilson, but unfortunately there is no money to be had in maintaining his unofficial...
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl is assaulted and raped on a midsummer's eve fifteen years ago. Cut to present, and a man is killed in a hit and run. He has no identification on him, he is not reported missing nor wanted by the police. Simultaneously a priest and his wife are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues are assigned to the seemingly unconnected cases. Skillfully crafted and highly suspenseful, Silenced is a gripping thriller,...
20) Buried angels
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Easter 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind - including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child and are looking to make a fresh start. But within days, their house is the target of an arson attack. Detective Patrik Hedstrom takes on the investigation, aided by his...
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