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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson - Random House Large Print
Format: Large print book

The Girl in the Spider's Web, the new book in the Millennium Series, is available now!Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest...
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The Hypnotist: A Novel

Lars Kepler - Sarah Crichton Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever...
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Midnight Sun: A novel

Jo Nesbø - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

The internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls...
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A Treacherous Paradise

Henning Mankell - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her navet by her exposure to racism and by her own unexpected inner strengths....
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The Ice Beneath Her: A Novel

Camilla Grebe - Ballantine
Format: Print book

Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling. Winter's chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies...
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The Alphabet House

Jussi Adler-Olsen - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Alan Furst, the #1 international bestselling author delivers his first stand-alone novel, a psychological thriller set in World War II Nazi Germany and 1970s England British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance...
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The Reckoning: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The stunning follow-up to The Legacy, which was the start of a thrilling new series that BOOKLIST (starred) recommends for fans of Tana French. Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have forgotten to pick...
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The Whisperer

Karin Fossum - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In this tense and twisty latest from Norway's maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer's interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man - or did she? How did a lonely, quiet woman...
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The Hidden Child: A Novel

Camilla Lackberg - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover

The brilliant new psychological thriller from worldwide bestseller Camilla Läckberg—the chilling struggle of a young woman facing the darkest chapter of Europe’s past. Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother’s possessions....
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Hour of the Wolf: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (7) (Inspector Van Veeteren Series)

Hakan Nesser - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A boy in a dark duffel coat. Lying in the ditch. Contorted at impossible angles, with his back pressed up against a concrete culvert and his face staring straight at him. As if he were trying to make some kind of contact. As if he wanted to tell him something. In the middle of a damp,...
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Free Falling, As If in a Dream: The Story of a Crime

Leif GW Persson - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction - and one of the best crime writers of our time - here is the final volume in the critically acclaimed Story of a Crime trilogy, centered on the assassination of Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief...
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The Second Deadly Sin

Asa Larsson - MacLehose Press
Format: Hardcover

Asa Larsson s Rebecka Martinsson series was included on a list of Top Mysteries Every Woman Should Read by Oprah Winfrey, who called Rebecka Martinsson a brilliant, believable female detective. Now in The Second Deadly Sin Rebecka Martinssons courage to the test once more in her most twisted...
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Strange Shores: An Inspector Erlendur Novel

Arnaldur Indridason - Minotaur Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

"Arnaldur Indridason is already an international literary phenom--and it's easy to see why. His novels are gripping, authentic, haunting, and lyrical. I can't wait for the next."--Harlan CobenThe preceding description of Arnaldur Indridason's crime novels is right...
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The Darkness: A Thriller

RAGNAR JONASSON - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir.The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory...
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Trophy: A Novel

Steffen Jacobsen - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For Fans of Jo Nesb, Stieg Larsson, and Henning Mankell, a Gripping Nordic Thriller That Was a Bestseller in DenmarkAfter the death of her industrialist father, Elizabeth Caspersen finds a compromising DVD in his safe: it seems to show two people being hunted to their death in a gruesome,...
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Open Grave: A Mystery

Kjell Eriksson
Format: Hardcover

Already a star in Europe and the Nordic countries, Kjell Eriksson has American critics raving. In this new book in the Ann Lindell series, Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in his otherwise quiet upper-class neighborhood....
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