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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st North American ed.
Physical Desc
365 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, January 1960 nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin's Andrén grandparents, and an Andrén family from Nevada are among the victims. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor, a gang master on the American transcontinental railway, that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Erica Falck returns to her tiny Swedish hometown after the funeral of her parents to find her childhood friend, Alex, frozen to death in her bathtub with her wrists slashed. With police detective Patrik Hedstrom, she tries to figure out what could have caused Alex to commit suicide. But someone is willing to do anything to protect the secret.
3) Hunting game
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nyström has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts. Though she still develops unhealthy fixations and makes rash decisions from time to time, she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic welterweight, she is glad to be taking a vacation from her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A woman sheds her old life and appearance to uphold her mother's dying wish of vengeance; and meanwhile, Inspector Van Veeteren goes on the trail to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for shooting a seemingly innocuous man to death.
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 4
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 21 cm.
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 Inspectors Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn into an investigation...
6) Winter grave
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the teenage loner who gave her a ride home after school. Complicating the matter is the fact that detectives can hardly get a word out of him. When a second child disappears and a police officer is found dead, tensions in the small town of Strömstad reach an all-time high.
Meanwhile, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred K. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
551 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The police receive a video clip of a woman in a window and reason that someone must have been standing in the garden just outside her house to be able to film her. The next day the woman is found dead in her home, the vicious violence of the scene shocks even the most seasoned investigators. A few days later, another clip is sent anonymously to the police, but there's no way of identifying the woman before she too falls victim to a brutal attack....
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English
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"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....
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from a pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. The forensics team is sure she drowned. But the boat was afloat, with no trace of water on her body. The next day a man turns up dead in his apartment, hanging from a high lamp hook, with nothing near him to climb on. Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, but the logistics are a mere prelude to danger.
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, a boy is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriend's house. The driver, drunk, leaves the boy's body by the side of the road and, wrestling with guilt, tries to put it all out of his mind, until a blackmail note arrives. In the meantime, Reinhart, the new chief inspector of the Maardam police force, has set his team to work. But a second, possibly related killing proves that this is no ordinary case. The police, desperate...
11) The fire witness
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The third installment of the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series, The Fire Witness sees Joona drawn into a gruesome, mysterious murder at a home for wayward girls. Detective Joona Linna is on leave dealing with personal and professional issues when he gets pulled into the investigation of a horrific murder at a home for wayward teenage girls. One girl is dead, and another is missing. The local police want to close the case quickly,...
Author
Series
Van Veeteren mystery volume 10
Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
601 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
1987. Verlangan, a former cop turned private detective is hired by a woman to follow her husband Jaan 'G' Hennan. A few days later, his client is found dead at the bottom of an empty swimming pool. Maardam police, led by Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, investigate the case. Van Veeteren has encountered Jaan 'G' Hennan before and knows only too well the man's dark capabilities. As more information emerges about G's shadowy past, the Chief Inspector becomes...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll...
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police find a suspected serial killer who seems to choose his victims at random, but the case becomes more personal when a colleague is taken by the murderer, leading Veteren and the police on a chase to find their friend before it is too late.
15) Roseanna
Author
Series
Martin Beck mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
2nd Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
x, 212 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries ... finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues, Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
2nd Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Physical Desc
x, 213 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sj©œwall and Per Wahl©œ©œ, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
18) The stranger
Author
Series
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Detective Patrik Hedström tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.
19) The mirror man
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
461 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
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