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1) The preacher
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English
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The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.
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English
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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.
3) The stranger
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Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Detective Patrik Hedstr�om 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.
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Ewert Grens thrillers volume 4
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English
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Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, THREE SECONDS is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström-heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime.Piet Hoffman, a top secret operative for the Swedish police, is about to embark on his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating the Polish mafia, he's become a key...
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 10
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English
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When Kurt Wallander is called into the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer, coincidentally his daughter's future father-in-law, he becomes embroiled in a story of Cold War espionage.
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Malin Fors novels volume 2
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Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
A sequel to 'Midwinter blood" finds police superintendent Malin Fors battling the challenges of an unprecendented heat wave in her Swedish burg while investigating an attack on a teenage amnesiac, a case that is complicated by the subsequent murder of another teen.
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Malin Fors novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Malin Fors, a divorced mother of a teenager and talented police superintendent in a small, isolated town, investigates the murder of an obese man who was found hanging from an oak tree, naked and horribly mutilated, in the middle of a snow-covered plain outside of town.
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
"A teenage girl is assaulted and raped on a midsummer's eve fifteen years ago. Cut to present, and a man is killed in a hit and run. He has no identification on him, he is not reported missing nor wanted by the police. Simultaneously a priest and his wife are found dead in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues are assigned to the seemingly unconnected cases"-- provided by publisher.
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Sandhamn murders volume 2
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Its a beautiful day for a regatta-until one of Sandhamn Islands most prestigious residents is killed aboard his sailing yacht. Oscar Juliander was a rich lawyer and deputy chairman of the prestigious Royal Swedish Yacht Club. While at first his death seems like a tragic accident, there is evidence of foul play. Police detective Thomas Andreasson teams up with local lawyer Nora Linde to investigate. As they work to uncover clues, they face resistance...
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Kurt Wallander mystery volume 10
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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When his daughter's father-in-law, legendary navy officer Hkåan von Enke, inexplicably disappears during a routine walk, Inspector Kurt Wallander personally spearheads the search. As he investigates, Wallander starts to uncover a conspiracy dating back to the Cold War, one which threatens to plunge all of Sweden into a scandal. However, Wallander's efforts are hampered when he begins to experience memory loss.
11) Box 21
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Ewert Grens thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedom?
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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After finding a Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings, crime writer Erica Falck meets with an old friend of her mother's, who is suddenly and violently murdered two days later, and Erica and her husband Detective Patrik Hedström must turn to family wartime diaries for clues.
13) The fire witness
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English
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When a medium contacts the police department with claims about a murder at a rural home for wayward girls, detective Joona Linna investigates bizarre clues only to find himself confronting more violent truths and a figure from his past. .