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The Day Is Dark: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - St. Martin's Griffin; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover

Theres something out thereIcelands answer to Stieg Larsson.--Daily TelegraphIcelands crime queen.--The ScotsmanEngaging, fresh, and exciting.--James PattersonYrsa Sigurdardttir is widely regarded around the world as one of the best Nordic crime writers working today. Yrsas previous book...
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Hour of the Wolf: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

Hakan Nesser - Pantheon Books
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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The Leopard: A Harry Hole Novel

Don Bartlett - Vintage
Format: Book

With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the title of best current Nordic writer of crime fiction . . . Jo Nesb wins. Marcel Berlins, The Times U.K.Two young women are found murdered...
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The Rabbit Hunter: A novel

Lars Kepler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The latest internationally best-selling installment in the Joona Linna series sees him temporarily called back to the police force to solve a series of bizarre and increasingly horrifying murders.Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer...
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I'm Traveling Alone

Samuel Bjork - Viking
Format: Print book

"International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime. A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless...
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Pen 33

Anders Roslund - Quercus
Format: Hardcover

Bernt Lund harbors a sickness. He is a monster, an unrepentant child molester and serial killer. In the mind of society, in the minds of his nine-year-old victims' parents, and in the minds of his fellow inmates, he is a waking nightmare. And now he has escaped from custody--the worst scenario...
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Someone to Watch Over Me: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - Minotaur Books
Format: Print book

Bestselling and award-winning Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigurdardottir is back with the next book in her Thra Gudmundsdttir series. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, the fifth installment in the Thra Gudmundsdttir series, was named Crime Novel of the Year by the Sunday Times.A young man with...
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The Killing Forest

Sara Blaedel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Sara Blaedel, author of the #1 international bestseller The Forgotten Girls--which was roundly praised as "gripping" with "uncompromising realism" (Washington Post) and "tautly suspenseful" (BookPage) --returns with the thrilling next...
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The Other Son: A Novel

Alexander Soderberg - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Hardcover

Sophie Brinkmann uses a family murder to plot a daring escape from comatose Hector Guzman's crime family, an effort that compels her to forge dubious alliances and tap darker aspects of her own nature.
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Stockholm Delete

Jens Lapidus - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Print book

A lawyer, an ex-con, and his nephew team up to solve a grisly murder in this explosive crime novel by internationally bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus. Emelie: a newly minted lawyer at a polished law firm. Teddy: an ex-con trying to stay on the right side of the law as he goes about...
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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito - Other Press
Format: Print book

QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years...
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Odd Numbers (Hanne Wilhelmsen Series #9)

Anne Holt - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth and penultimate installment of the award-winning series from Norway's bestselling crime writer Anne Holt - "the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction"...
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I Remember You: A Ghost Story

Yrsa Sigurdardottir - St Martin'S Press
Format: Hardcover

In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house. But soon, they realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave, and it's making its presence felt. Meanwhile, in a town across the fjord, a young doctor...
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The Snowman: A Harry Hole Novel

Jo Nesbø - Knopf Publishing Group; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbø’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity. Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find...
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Silenced: A Novel

Kristina Ohlsson - Atria/Emily Bestler Books; Tra edition
Format: Book

Fifteen years ago A teenage girl is viciously assaulted as she picks flowers in a field one night in midsummer. The crime is never reported. Present day A man with no identification on his person is killed in a hit-and-run. He is never reported missing. Across the city, a priest and his wife...
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