Catalog Search Results
21) Cell 8
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....
22) Firewall
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
23) The mirror man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the latest installment of the Killer Instinct series, seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape... and once caught they rarely survive their punishment. Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and...
Author
Series
Malin Fors novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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.
26) Lazarus
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The latest installment in the internationally best-selling Joona Linna series sees the Swedish detective on the trail of the worst serial killer he's seen yet. Across the continent, someone is brutally murdering Europe's worst criminals. Who can object to taking out rapists, arsonists, human traffickers? But when two of the victims have a direct connection to detective Joona Linna, it's clear to him that somebody's trying to send him a message. His...
28) The Golden Calf
Author
Series
Publisher
SOHO Crime
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A triple homicide in one of Goteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods culminates in a frantic investigation for Detective Inspector Irene Huss that is complicated by a dot-com diva who refuses to speak and Irene's partner Tommy's suspicious behavior.
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A latest installment in the series that includes Unwanted and Daisy follows Fredrika Bergman's investigation into a missing student's murder, a case that is further complicated by additional killings and clues that lead to Fredrika's lover.
31) The lost boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjällbackas dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes. It seems Sverin was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew a man with something to hide . . . His high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has just returned to Fjallbacka with her five-year-old son perhaps can she shed some light on who Sverin really...
32) The viper
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Arvid, a ruthless business consultant for a major international company, returns home to Sweden after a lengthy assignment in Tokyo. Four days after his return, the maid discovers two dead bodies on the living room floor -- a man and a woman. At first, police detective Fredrik Broman assumes the two bodies to be Arvid and his wife, but the male body is badly disfigured and could be anyone. Soon, Fredrik is knee-deep in a case that is much more complex...
33) The ice princess
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In this electrifying tale of suspense from an international crime-writing sensation, a grisly death exposes the dark heart of a Scandinavian seaside village. Erica Falck returns to her tiny, remote hometown of Fjällbacka, Sweden, after her parents deaths only to encounter another tragedy: the suicide of her childhood best friend, Alex. Its Erica herself who finds Alexs bodysuspended in a bathtub of frozen water, her wrists slashed. Erica is bewildered:...
Author
Series
Story of a crime trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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.
35) Gente ansiosa
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situacion de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la vispera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequena ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo. Entonces, si lo es. Porque, cuando alguien es asi de idiota, es inevitable que no sepa como huir y termine en un apartamento en venta tomando rehenes sin querer. Pero puedes confiar en la policia. A menos...
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
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. Skillfully crafted and highly suspenseful, Silenced is a gripping thriller,...
37) Three hours
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 7
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Malin Fors novels volume 3
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Police superintendent Malin Fors returns in this chilling third novel from the critically acclaimed author of Midwinter Blood, the first in the series and "a splendid representative of the Swedish crime novel, in all its elegance and eeriness" (Booklist, starred review). Who killed the social climber in the big castle? Sheets of rain are pouring down over Skogså Castle, outside of Linköping. The landscape and the body floating in the moat are...
39) One step behind
Author
Series
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
It is midsummer's eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elobrate masque. But unknown to them they are being watched. With a bullet each, all three are murdered. Soon afterward, one of Kurt Wallender's colleagues is found murdered.
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector...
40) The fifth woman
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, while the body of a missing florist is discovered strangled and tied...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request