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 in the series, Ashes to Dust, also featured lawyer and sometime sleuth Thra Gudmundsdttir and received rave reviews internationally. In The Day is Dark, when all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the coast of Greenland, Thra is hired to uncover the fates of the missing people. When she arrives in Greenland, she discovers that these arent the first two to go missing. The local townspeople believe that the area is cursed, and no one wants to get involved in the case.
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Hour of the Wolf
By Nesser, Hakan
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, dark night, a young man is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriends house. The driver, drunk, leaves the body by the side of the road. Wrestling with guilt, the driver tries to put the murder out of his mind - until a blackmail note arrives, setting into motion a chain of events that will draw everyone involved into a fog of crime. Reinhart, the new chief inspector of the Maardam police force, sets his team to work. But when the victim of a second, possibly related, killing is identified, Reinhart realizes that this is no ordinary investigation. In Hour of the Wolf, former chief inspector Van Veeteren - a legend now in retirement - is called upon to face his greatest trial yet, when someone close to him is found dead. Van Veeterens former colleagues, desperate for answers, struggle to decipher the clues to these appalling crimes. As the killer becomes increasingly unhinged and unpredictable, Van Veeteren is forced to reenter a world he left behind, and to avenge a death. Told with Håkan Nessers trademark eye for detail, breakneck plotting, and gut-wrenching moral tension, Hour of the Wolf finds the Nordic noir superstar spinning one of his darkest tales yet.
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9780307906878
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The Leopard
By Bartlett, Don
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 in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches fever pitch Could this be the work of a serial killer The crime scenes offer no coherent clues, the police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help doesnt want to be found. Traumatized by his last case, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kongs opium dens. Yet when he is compelled, at last, to return to Norwayhis father is dyingHarrys buried instincts begin to take over.
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The Rabbit Hunter
By Kepler, Lars
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 in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish prime minister. The foreign minister has been brutally murdered. There's a chance more political figures could be targeted. The police need Linna to find the killer and neutralize the threat, so he's granted a temporary release from prison. But when another murder occurs, Linna realizes he's dealing with something far more complex, and far more terrifying, than anyone imagined. As the body count grows, Linna begins to understand that he can't do this alone and he reaches out to Saga Bauer, the young security police detective, for help. Now, together, the two race against time to unravel the killer's intricate plan before he can take his ultimate revenge.
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I'm Traveling Alone
By Bjork, Samuel
"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 from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit in Oslo re-opens with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. Holger's first step is to persuade the brilliant but haunted investigator Mia Kruger, who has been living on an isolated island, overcome by memories of her past. When Mia views a photograph of the crime scene and spots the number "1" carved into the dead girl's fingernail, she knows this is only the beginning. Could this killer have something to do with a missing child, abducted six years ago and never found, or with the reclusive religious community hidden in the nearby woods? Mia returns to duty to track down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer. But when Munch's own six-year-old granddaughter goes missing, Mia realizes that the killer's sinister game is personal, and I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive--and shocking--conclusion"--
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Pen 33
By Roslund, Anders
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 imaginable for Aspss Prison's Department for Sexual Crimes.Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens is about to encounter the most profoundly sickening case in his career, and perhaps in Stockholm's history. During the course of one long, hot summer, Sweden will face an explosive series of events that spread across the country like wildfire, events that call into question the very nature of humanity, duty, forgiveness, and self-defense. And justice.Pen 33 is an unflinching exploration of what people--both criminals and victims--are capable of when they choose to relinquish self-control.
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Someone to Watch Over Me
By SigurðardoÌttir, Yrsa
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 Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run
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9781250080974
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The Killing Forest
By Blaedel, Sara
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 book in her series featuring police investigator Louise Rick.THE KILLING FOREST
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9781455581542
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The Other Son
By Soderberg, Alexander
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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9780770436087
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Stockholm Delete
By Lapidus, Jens
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 his job as the firm's fixer and special investigator. Nikola: Teddy's wayward nephew who is about to make the same mistakes he once did. They don't know it yet, but the three are about to be entangled in a snarly web with deep connections to Stockholm's underworld.When an alarm is triggered, a security guard is called to a house out on Vrmdo, an island in Stockholm's archipelago. What awaits him isn't a regular break-in, but an unidentifiable body: someone has been slaughtered in the house.
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9780525431718
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Quicksand
By Giolito, Malin Persson
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 old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door who was popular and excelled at school, become the most hated teenager in the country? What did Maja do? Or is it what she didn't do that brought her here?
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9781590518571
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Odd Numbers
By Holt, Anne
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" (Jo Nesbo) .On an early April afternoon, a bomb goes off in the Islamic Cooperation Council's offices in Oslo, killing twenty-three people. The Police and Security Service suspect an extremist organization to be responsible for the attack, a suspicion that grows stronger when threats of yet another, bigger explosion during the planned celebration of the Norwegian constitution reach the authorities. As a special adviser on cold cases, Hanne Wilhelmsen has cut all of her official ties to the Security Service and lives contentedly - or at least as contentedly as someone like her can manage - in solitude with her partner Nesir and their young daughter. A small computer monitor is Hanne's only window to the outside until the day of the attacks, when her closed-off world is broken open. Hanne is approached by her long lost friend, Billy T., whose son Linus has undergone some disturbing changes recently. As the mood of the city darkens, Hanne tries to help Billy T. reach out to Linus and realizes that Oslo is up against forces far more terrible and menacing than ever before.
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9781451634730
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I Remember You
By Sigurdardottir, Yrsa
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 investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered.In the vein of John Ajvide Lindqvist, this horrifying thriller is the scariest novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, who has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir. Now, in I Remember You, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering.
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The Snowman
By Nesbø, Jo
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 his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother—and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised—and constantly revised—by the killer.
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Silenced
By Ohlsson, Kristina
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 are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman is assigned to the case. What she and her colleagues discover is that a sinister evil, the roots of which date back decades, is the link behind these seemingly unrelated crimes. Theres a reason why none of them were ever reported, and it has to do with a shocking and horrendous cover-up unlike anything Fredrika could have possibly imagined. Skillfully crafted and highly suspenseful, Silenced is a gripping thriller in which the consequences of past tragedies continue to haunt the present, reaching further and deeper than anyone ever expected.
The Day Is Dark
By Sigurdardottir, Yrsa
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 in the series, Ashes to Dust, also featured lawyer and sometime sleuth Thra Gudmundsdttir and received rave reviews internationally. In The Day is Dark, when all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the coast of Greenland, Thra is hired to uncover the fates of the missing people. When she arrives in Greenland, she discovers that these arent the first two to go missing. The local townspeople believe that the area is cursed, and no one wants to get involved in the case.
Hour of the Wolf
By Nesser, Hakan
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, dark night, a young man is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriends house. The driver, drunk, leaves the body by the side of the road. Wrestling with guilt, the driver tries to put the murder out of his mind - until a blackmail note arrives, setting into motion a chain of events that will draw everyone involved into a fog of crime. Reinhart, the new chief inspector of the Maardam police force, sets his team to work. But when the victim of a second, possibly related, killing is identified, Reinhart realizes that this is no ordinary investigation. In Hour of the Wolf, former chief inspector Van Veeteren - a legend now in retirement - is called upon to face his greatest trial yet, when someone close to him is found dead. Van Veeterens former colleagues, desperate for answers, struggle to decipher the clues to these appalling crimes. As the killer becomes increasingly unhinged and unpredictable, Van Veeteren is forced to reenter a world he left behind, and to avenge a death. Told with Håkan Nessers trademark eye for detail, breakneck plotting, and gut-wrenching moral tension, Hour of the Wolf finds the Nordic noir superstar spinning one of his darkest tales yet.
The Leopard
By Bartlett, Don
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 in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches fever pitch Could this be the work of a serial killer The crime scenes offer no coherent clues, the police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help doesnt want to be found. Traumatized by his last case, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kongs opium dens. Yet when he is compelled, at last, to return to Norwayhis father is dyingHarrys buried instincts begin to take over.
The Rabbit Hunter
By Kepler, Lars
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 in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish prime minister. The foreign minister has been brutally murdered. There's a chance more political figures could be targeted. The police need Linna to find the killer and neutralize the threat, so he's granted a temporary release from prison. But when another murder occurs, Linna realizes he's dealing with something far more complex, and far more terrifying, than anyone imagined. As the body count grows, Linna begins to understand that he can't do this alone and he reaches out to Saga Bauer, the young security police detective, for help. Now, together, the two race against time to unravel the killer's intricate plan before he can take his ultimate revenge.
I'm Traveling Alone
By Bjork, Samuel
"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 from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit in Oslo re-opens with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. Holger's first step is to persuade the brilliant but haunted investigator Mia Kruger, who has been living on an isolated island, overcome by memories of her past. When Mia views a photograph of the crime scene and spots the number "1" carved into the dead girl's fingernail, she knows this is only the beginning. Could this killer have something to do with a missing child, abducted six years ago and never found, or with the reclusive religious community hidden in the nearby woods? Mia returns to duty to track down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer. But when Munch's own six-year-old granddaughter goes missing, Mia realizes that the killer's sinister game is personal, and I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive--and shocking--conclusion"--
Pen 33
By Roslund, Anders
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 imaginable for Aspss Prison's Department for Sexual Crimes.Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens is about to encounter the most profoundly sickening case in his career, and perhaps in Stockholm's history. During the course of one long, hot summer, Sweden will face an explosive series of events that spread across the country like wildfire, events that call into question the very nature of humanity, duty, forgiveness, and self-defense. And justice.Pen 33 is an unflinching exploration of what people--both criminals and victims--are capable of when they choose to relinquish self-control.
Someone to Watch Over Me
By SigurðardoÌttir, Yrsa
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 Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his assisted living facility and killing five people, but a fellow inmate at his secure psychiatric unit has hired Thora to prove Jakob is innocent. If he didn't do it, who did And how is the multiple murder connected to the death of a young woman, killed in what was supposed to be a hit-and-run
The Killing Forest
By Blaedel, Sara
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 book in her series featuring police investigator Louise Rick.THE KILLING FOREST
The Other Son
By Soderberg, Alexander
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.
Stockholm Delete
By Lapidus, Jens
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 his job as the firm's fixer and special investigator. Nikola: Teddy's wayward nephew who is about to make the same mistakes he once did. They don't know it yet, but the three are about to be entangled in a snarly web with deep connections to Stockholm's underworld.When an alarm is triggered, a security guard is called to a house out on Vrmdo, an island in Stockholm's archipelago. What awaits him isn't a regular break-in, but an unidentifiable body: someone has been slaughtered in the house.
Quicksand
By Giolito, Malin Persson
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 old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door who was popular and excelled at school, become the most hated teenager in the country? What did Maja do? Or is it what she didn't do that brought her here?
Odd Numbers
By Holt, Anne
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" (Jo Nesbo) .On an early April afternoon, a bomb goes off in the Islamic Cooperation Council's offices in Oslo, killing twenty-three people. The Police and Security Service suspect an extremist organization to be responsible for the attack, a suspicion that grows stronger when threats of yet another, bigger explosion during the planned celebration of the Norwegian constitution reach the authorities. As a special adviser on cold cases, Hanne Wilhelmsen has cut all of her official ties to the Security Service and lives contentedly - or at least as contentedly as someone like her can manage - in solitude with her partner Nesir and their young daughter. A small computer monitor is Hanne's only window to the outside until the day of the attacks, when her closed-off world is broken open. Hanne is approached by her long lost friend, Billy T., whose son Linus has undergone some disturbing changes recently. As the mood of the city darkens, Hanne tries to help Billy T. reach out to Linus and realizes that Oslo is up against forces far more terrible and menacing than ever before.
I Remember You
By Sigurdardottir, Yrsa
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 investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered.In the vein of John Ajvide Lindqvist, this horrifying thriller is the scariest novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, who has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir. Now, in I Remember You, Yrsa will stun readers once again with this out-of-this-world ghost story that will leave you shivering.
The Snowman
By Nesbø, Jo
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 his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother—and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised—and constantly revised—by the killer.
Silenced
By Ohlsson, Kristina
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 are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman is assigned to the case. What she and her colleagues discover is that a sinister evil, the roots of which date back decades, is the link behind these seemingly unrelated crimes. Theres a reason why none of them were ever reported, and it has to do with a shocking and horrendous cover-up unlike anything Fredrika could have possibly imagined. Skillfully crafted and highly suspenseful, Silenced is a gripping thriller in which the consequences of past tragedies continue to haunt the present, reaching further and deeper than anyone ever expected.