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The Lost Boy: A Novel

Camilla Lackberg - Pegasus Crime
Format: Print book

From the #1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation, Camilla Lackberg's latest psychological thriller ensnares Detective Patrik Hedstrom in a confounding new murder case. Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjllbacka's dead financial...
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Ice Moon

Jan Costin Wagner - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Only a week after losing his wife, a distraught Detective Kimmo Joentaa returns to work to join a murder inquiry. It is the case of a woman smothered in her sleep—a curiously tranquil death, it seems, and one with no motive—and Kimmo becomes obsessed. The only clues are a half-empty...
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Don't Look Back

Karin Fossum
Format: Print book

Meet Inspector Sejer: smart and enigmatic, tough but fair. At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountainto
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What is Mine

Anne Holt - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

One afternoon after school, nine-year-old Emilie doesn't come home. After a frantic search, her father finds her backpack in a deserted alley. A week later, a five-year-old boy goes missing. And then another. Meanwhile, Johanna Vik, a former FBI profiler with a troubled past and a difficult...
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The Redbreast: A Novel

Don Bartlett - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

“An elegant and complex thriller….Harrowingly beautiful.”—New York Times Book Review“A hugely impressive achievement—ambitious in scope, and skilled in execution.”—Los Angeles Times“The Redbreast certainly ranks with the best of current...
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The Princess of Burundi

Kjell Eriksson - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A runaway bestseller in Sweden, The Princess of Burundi introduces Inspector Ann Lindell to U.S. mystery readers. When a jogger finds a dead body in the snow, the members of Sweden's Uppsala police force uncover a victim with an unsettling history. John Jonsson, known to everyone...
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The Ice Princess

Camilla Lackberg - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The American debut of internationally bestselling Swedish writer Camilla Lackberg's haunting first novel.Returning to her hometown of Fjallbacka after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex,...
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Sun Storm

Asa Larsson - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled-and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall....So begins sa Larsson's spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel Award and an international literary...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international...
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Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Paperback

From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh.It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly...
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Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

Håkan Nesser - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

An ex-con is brutally murdered with an ax in Kaalbringen. Then the body of a wealthy real estate mogul is found, also the victim of a violent attack. There appears to be a serial killer on the loose, and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police. In his storied...
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Detective Inspector Huss

Helene Tursten - Soho
Format: Hardcover

Introducing Sweden's acclaimed mystery writer. One night Detective Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, Sweden, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment....
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Missing

Karin Alvtegen - Felony & Mayhem Press
Format: Hardcover

Born into a life of privilege, Sybilla has spent many years opting instead to live on the streets of Stockholm, cadging a bed, a bath, a meal, where she can. Her favorite technique - one she permits herself only as a special treat - plays out at the Grand Hotel, where with luck she can usually...
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Lethal Investments

K.O. Dahl - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A string of murders sucks the Oslo Detectives into a maelstrom of dark secrets in the latest from the master of Norwegian crime writing.Award-winning author K.O. Dahl has achieved international acclaim with his Oslo Detectives series featuring inspectors Frlich and Gunnarstranda. Now he presents...
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Black Lies, Red Blood: A Mystery

Kjell Eriksson - St Martins Pr
Format: Hardcover

Kjell Eriksson has made a huge splash around the globe with his Ann Lindell police procedural series. Now Eriksson is back with another stunning mystery packed with surprises. In Black Lies, Red Blood, police officer Ann Lindell is great at solving crimes, but she doesn't have as much...
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

David Lagercrantz

From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker,
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The Son: A novel

Jo Nesbo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set inside Oslo's maze of especially venal, high-level corruption. Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny's been in prison for a dozen years, nearly...
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Black Seconds (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)

Karin Fossum - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Ida’s friends—anyone who could...
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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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Depths: A Novel

Henning Mankell - New Press, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A gripping, masterful novel from the world-famous Henning Mankell, set off the coast of Sweden during World War I.The skerry was resting in the sea. It was like being in a cradle, or on a deathbed, he thought. All the voices hidden in the cliff were whispering. Even rocks have memories,...
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The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel

JO NESBO - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

#1 International Best Seller In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue - fragments...
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow

David Lagercrantz - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web - an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide and plunges into a post-war Britain of immeasurable repression, conformity and fear June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR,...
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Jar City: A Thriller

Arnaldur Indri?ason - Minotaur Books; 1st edition

Jar City introduces American readers to a new crime writer from Iceland whose work has created an international sensation. Arnaldur Indridason has been compared to such luminaries in the field as Henning Mankell, Georges Simenon, Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall; everyone agrees that here is a world-class...
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