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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives...
2) The drowning
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Investigating anonymous threats directed toward a reclusive author, crime writer Erica Falk and her detective husband, Patrik Hedström, discover that the author was once a member of a circle of friends torn by complicated love triangles and dark family secrets.
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[2011]
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English
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"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
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When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
6) Firewall
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 8
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English
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Inspector Kurt Wallander begins to suspect a connection between a series of crimes--the murder of a taxi driver by two teenage girls, the escape of one of the culprits, a power blackout, and a grisly discovery at the malfunctioning power station.
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Malin Fors novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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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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Story of a crime trilogy volume 2
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Based on the real events of the unsolved assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, the story picks up in 1989 with a seemingly unrelated stabbing death of a civil servant, which is swept under the rug.
9) Three hours
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Ewert Grens thrillers volume 7
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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The explosive third novel in the Ewert Grens-Piet Hoffmann trilogy, which began with The New York Times bestseller Three Seconds. Stockholm, Sweden: Seventy-three refugees have been found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbor. Niamey, Niger: Ewert Grens arrives in a city he's never heard of, in search of a man he never thought he would see again. Piet Hoffmann has again got himself in too deep, infiltrating a West African trafficking ring....
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The irascible, obdurate, and very thirsty Detective Superintendent Evert B�ackstr�om of the National Murder Squad returns in a new novel from the reigning master of Scandinavian fiction. It’s the dead of summer in the sleepy town of V�axj�o when twenty-year-old police cadet Linda Wallin is found lying facedown in her mother’s apartment, brutally murdered and raped. With no clear motive or suspect in sight, a series of bureaucratic mix-ups...
11) Three minutes
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Ewert Grens thrillers volume 6
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Presumed dead by the Stockholm police -- with a couple of notable exceptions, including homicide detective Ewert Grens -- master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in South America. Hoffmann stays in touch with his former police handler, Erik Wilson, but unfortunately there is no money to be had in maintaining his unofficial...
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