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Scandinavian/Nordic Crime Fiction
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Mystery. A U.S. release of a first installment in a top award-winning Danish series introduces chief detective Carl Morck, who after recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.
Department Q series #1 The Keeper of Lost Causes. Mystery #2 The Absent One. Mystery #3 A Conspiracy of Faith. Mystery #4 The Purity of Vengeance. Mystery #5 The Marco Effect. Mystery #6 The Hanging Girl. Mystery #7 The Scarred Woman. Mystery, Axis 360 ebook #8 Victim 2117. Mystery, large print mystery
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Victim without a Face
by Stefan Ahnhem
Mystery. A first entry in an internationally best-selling and award-winning series from Sweden follows the efforts of lead investigator Fabian Risk to work with minimal evidence to solve the gruesome murders of two bullies who once tormented him.
Fabian Risk series #1 Victim without a Face. Mystery #2 The Ninth Grave. Mystery
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The Night Women
by Sara Blædel
Copenhagen's Detective Louise Rick investigates the grisly murder of a young woman and the discovery of an abandoned baby and uncovers ties to human trafficking.
Louise Rick and Camilla Lind novels #3 The Night Women (previously published as Farewell to Freedom). Axis 360 eBook #4. The Forgotten Girls. Mystery #5 The Killing Forest. Mystery, Axis 360 eAudiobook #6 The Lost Woman. Mystery #7 The Running Girl. Axis 360 eBook #8 The Stolen Angel. Axis 360 eBook #9 The Midnight Witness. Axis 360 eBook, YA paperback
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The Undertaker's Daughter
by Sara Blædel
Receiving an unexpected inheritance from the father who abandoned her, 40-year-old widow Ilka Nichols Jenson impulsively travels from Copenhagen to her late father's mortuary in Wisconsin and begins to comb through his estate before stumbling on an unsolved murder.
Ilka novels #1 The Undertaker's Daughter. Mystery #2 Her Father's Secret. Mystery #3 The Third Sister. Fiction
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Where Monsters Dwell
by Jørgen Brekke
Mystery. A museum curator's murder that eerily resembles a killing in Norway prompts Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker to investigate from their respective locations before discovering a common link in a 16th-century palimpsest book.
Odd Singsaker series #1 Where Monsters Dwell. Mystery #2 Dreamless. Mystery #3 The Fifth Element. Mystery
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The Boy at the Door
by Alex Dahl
Axis 360 eBook. Cecilia Wilborg has it all. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a home in an idyllic Norwegian suburb. When the receptionist at her daughter's swim club asks her to drop off a small boy who hasn't been picked up yet, she knows it is her duty to help. When Cecilia arrives at the address she was given, the house is empty. The boy begs her to take him home with her just for the night. Cecilia reluctantly agrees but she could never guess that this little boy would soon begin to unravel her carefully constructed life and shatter everything she holds dear.
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The Heart Keeper
by Alex Dahl
Axis 360 eBook. Succumbing to despair during a bleak Norwegian winter in the aftermath of her daughter's drowning death, Alison forges a controversial and increasingly obsessive bond with the struggling family of her daughter's heart recipient.
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A Nearly Normal Family
by M. T. Edvardsson
Fiction. A legal thriller told in three acts follows the trial of an 18-year-old girl from an upstanding family who has been implicated in the murder of a shady businessman, testing the limits of her father's faith and mother's ethics.
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The Cruel Stars of the Night
by Kjell Eriksson
Mystery. Police Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues are called in to investigate the disappearance of a local professor, a case that could be linked to the murders of several elderly men.
Ann Lindell series #2 The Cruel Stars of the Night. Mystery #6 Open Grave. Mystery #7 Stone Coffin. Mystery
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Broken
by Karin Fossum
Mystery. Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict.
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I Can See in the Dark
by Karin Fossum
Mystery. Guilty of a terrible crime, Riktor isn't surprised when a police officer bursts into his house to arrest him, except that he didn't actually commit the particular crime he is being charged with and must defend his innocence without further incriminating himself.
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Eva's Eye
by Karin Fossum
Mystery. Investigating the murder of a dead man who had been missing for months, Inspector Sejer and his team discover that his death is linked to the murder of a prostitute and to Eva, a struggling artist and a divorced single mother who holds to key to solving both murders.
Inspector Sejer novels #1 Eva's Eye. Mystery #6 Black Seconds. Mystery #7 The Water's Edge. Mystery #8 Bad Intentions. Mystery #10 The Murder of Harriet Krohn. Mystery #11 The Drowned Boy. Mystery, Axis 360 eBook #12 Hell Fire. Mystery, Axis 360 eBook #13 The Whisperer. Mystery
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The Summer of Ellen
by Agnete Friis
Fiction. Compelled by his great-uncle to find out what happened to a beautiful local hippie decades earlier, a Copenhagen architect revisits the rural family farm he hasn't seen since his teens and finds answers and solace while reconnecting with old friends.
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The Ice Beneath Her
by Camilla Grebe
Fiction. Investigating a grisly murder in a business tycoon's Stockholm residence, detective Peter Lindgren and psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen navigate complications in their own relationship while tracking down the businessman, who may have been having an affair with the victim.
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The Hanging
by Lotte Hammer
Fiction. One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad to the school janitor, who may know more about the killings than he is telling. Soon, Simonsen realizes that each of the five murdered men had a dark and terrible secret in common.
Konrad Simonsen novels #1 The Hanging. Fiction #2 Girl on the Ice. Fiction #3 The Vanished. Fiction #4 The Lake. Fiction #5 The Night Ferry. Fiction
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The Quiet Girl
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. A mysterious order of nuns promises Kaspar Krone, a circus clown with a gambling debt who is wanted for tax evasion, a reprieve from the authorities in exchange for his help in safeguarding children with mystical abilities--talents that he also shares.
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Borderliners
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. Challenging ideas of education and childhood, a disturbing novel by the acclaimed author of Smilla's Sense of Snow is about a boy who grows up in institutions and becomes drawn to outsiders at an elite private school.
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The Elephant Keepers' Children
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. Enjoying life on an island where all faiths coexist peacefully, precocious 14-year-old Peter and his siblings are shocked when their devout vicar father and eccentric artisan mother go missing at the height of a relentless effort to boost church attendance. By the best-selling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. Smilla Jaspersen befriends her neighbor, a six-year old boy who appears to be neglected, but when he dies in what is termed a tragic accident, Smilla begins to suspect that he was murdered.
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Death of the Demon: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel
by Anne Holt
Investigating the murder of an orphanage director and the disappearance of a twelve-year-old resident, police investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen believes that the child must have witnessed the crime, but struggles with doubts about her own deductive instincts.
Hanne Wilhelmsen series #3 Death of the Demon. Mystery #4 The Lion's Mouth. Mystery #5 Dead Joker. Mystery #6 No Echo. Mystery #7 Beyond the Truth. Mystery #8 1222. Mystery #9 Odd Numbers. Mystery
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Ordeal
by Jørn Lier Horst
Fiction. When a woman haunted by her dysfunctional family discovers crucial evidence in the safe of her late grandfather's estate, Inspector William Wisting is forced to compromise his loyalties and the police force's reputation in order to solve a morally challenging cold case.
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Voices
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Mystery. At a grand Reykjavik hotel, when the doorman has been stabbed in his dingy basement room and the manager tries to keep the murder under wraps, Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel and the web of malice, greed, and corruption that lies beneath its posh surface to find a killer.
Inspector Sveinsson series #3 Voices. Mystery #9 Strange Shores. Mystery #10 Reykjavik Nights. Mystery. #11 Into Oblivion. Mystery
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The Shadow District: A Thriller
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Mystery, Axis 360 ebook. Investigating the murder of an elderly man, a retired detective discovers links between the victim, the World War II case of a strangled woman, and a pair of attacks that suggest the wrong man may have been arrested decades earlier.
Reykjavik wartime mysteries #1 The Shadow District, Mystery, Axis 360 ebook #2 The Shadow Killer, Mystery, Axis 360 ebook
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Trophy: A Novel
by Steffen Jacobsen
Fiction. After the death of her industrialist father, Elizabeth Caspersen finds a compromising DVD in his safe: it seems to show two people being hunted to their death in a gruesome, well-organized manhunt. Michael Sander, a private investigator and security consultant, is hired to find out who the victims are and why Caspersen was involved. Meanwhile, police investigator Lene Jenesen is investigating the death of a decorated war veteran found hanged on his wedding night. Having recently come into money, the man appears to have been driven to suicide, but the question is, why? As the two cases begin to intertwine, Lene and Michael uncover a chilling secret.
Lene Jenesen series #1 Trophy. Fiction #2 Retribution. Axis 360 eBook
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The Darkness: A Thriller
by Ragnar Jónasson
Mystery. A series debut by the author of the Dark Iceland thrillers finds Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir of the Reykjavik Police targeted by a violent adversary who would prevent her from solving the murder of a Russian asylum seeker.
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir series #1 The Darkness. Mystery #2 The Island. Mystery, Axis 360 eBook
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Snowblind
by Ragnar Jónasson
Mystery. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, a rookie policeman is dragged straight into the heart of a fishing community in Northern Iceland where secrets and lies are a way of life.
Dark Iceland series #1 Snowblind. Mystery #2 Nightblind. Mystery #3 Blackout. Mystery. #4 Rupture. Mystery, Axis 360 eBook
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The Boy in the Suitcase
by Lene Kaaberbøl
Fiction. An English-language release of a first entry in a best-selling Danish series introduces Red Cross nurse Nina Borg, who is drawn into Copenhagen's brutal underworld when she becomes the unwitting caretaker of a 3-year-old boy who may be a victim of child trafficking.
Nina Borg series #1 The Boy in the Suitcase. Fiction #2 Invisible Murder. Fiction #3 Death of a Nightingale. Fiction #4 The Considerate Killer. Fiction, Axis 360 eBook
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Doctor Death: A Novel
by Lene Kaaberbøl
Fiction. Wanting to follow in her pathologist father's footsteps in spite of the taboos of 1894 France, ambitious Madeleine Karno pursues alternative methods of investigation to solve the murders of a teen girl and a priest.
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The Swede: A Novel
by Robert Karjel
Fiction. A first English-language translation by a U.S.-trained Swedish military pilot depicts the efforts of a Swedish security police officer with a double life and an enigmatic U.S. intelligence agent to outmaneuver a terrorist plot.
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The hypnotist : a Joona Linna novel
by Lars Kepler
There's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes and he has lapsed into a catatonic state. Desperate for information, Linna enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to hypnotize the boy, hoping to uncover the killer.
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The Stranger
by Camilla Läckberg
A suspicious drunk driving case and the death of an unpopular contestant on a local reality television show only seem unrelated when Detective Patrik Hestrom begins his investigation in this new novel by the author of The Ice Princess.
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries #4 The Stranger. Fiction #5 The Hidden Child. Fiction #6 The Drowning. Fiction, Axis 360 eAudiobook #7 The Lost Boy. Fiction
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow: The Death and Life of Alan Turing
by David Lagercrantz
Fiction. Suspecting that foul play may be behind the suicide of mathematical genius Alan Turing, 1950s detective Leonard Corell defies his superiors to investigate the Bletchley Park operation while making astonishing discoveries about his own life. By the best-selling author of The Girl in the Spider's Web.
Suspecting that foul play may be behind the suicide of mathematical genius Alan Turing, 1950s detective Leonard Corell defies his superiors to investigate the Bletchley Park operation while making astonishing discoveries about his own life. By the best-selling author of The Girl in the Spider's Web.
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Easy Money
by Jens Lapidus
Fiction. A fast-paced story by one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense lawyers follows encounters between a vengeful escaped drug dealer, a money-strapped student and a disenchanted mafia thug whose efforts to establish places for themselves are complicated by dangerous elements on both sides of the law.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Fiction. Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by her powerful family, her uncle, convinced that she had been murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional clan, hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
Millennium series #1 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Fiction, audio-CD, graphic novel, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook #2 The Girl Who Played with Fire. Fiction, audio-CD, graphic novel, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook #3 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Fiction, audio-CD, graphic novel, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook #4 The Girl in the Spider's Web (by David Lagercrantz). Fiction, Playaway audio, large print, audio CD, Axis 360 ebook & eAudiobook #5 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (by David Lagercrantz), Fiction, large print, audio CD, Axis 360 ebook & eAudiobook, Playaway audio #6 The Girl Who Lived Twice (by David Lagercrantz). Fiction, Axis 360 eBook
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Let Me In
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Fiction. In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, 12-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor.
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Kennedy's Brain
by Henning Mankell
Fiction. Convinced that her beloved twenty-eight-year-old son was killed in spite of a police ruling that he committed suicide, archaeologist Louise Cantor travels throughout the world in search of answers, an endeavor marked by additional murders, dangerous secrets, and sobering truths about the African AIDS epidemic.
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The Man from Beijing
by Henning Mankell
Fiction. In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of 19 people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the 19th-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case's eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers. By the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.
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The Shadow Girls
by Henning Mankell
Fiction. Ordered by his editor to write a crime novel to reignite his stalled career, poet Jesper Humlin reluctantly travels to Gothenburg, where three unlikely pupils of an impromptu writing workshop draw him into their culturally driven, compelling worlds. By the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander series.
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Faceless Killers: A Mystery
by Henning Mankell
Mystery. Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local Swedish police officer whose own personal life is falling apart, finds himself coping with a wave of anti-foreigner sentiment when he is put in charge of the investigation into the brutal murders of an elderly couple.
Kurt Wallander series #1 Faceless Killers. Mystery #2 The Dogs of Riga. Mystery #3 The White Lioness. Mystery #4 The Man Who Smiled. Mystery #5 Sidetracked. Mystery #9 The Pyramid. Mystery #10 The Troubled Man. Mystery
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Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery
by Henning Mankell
Mystery. Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared.
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Norwegian by Night
by Derek B. Miller
Fiction. After witnessing a murder in Oslo, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman, Sheldon Horrowitz , flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.
Sigrid Odegard series #1 Norwegian by Night. Fiction #2 American by Day. Fiction
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The Wolf and the Watchman: A Novel
by Niklas Natt och Dag
Fiction. A U.S. release of an award-winning first novel finds a disabled ex-soldier and a lawyer with tuberculosis combing the underworld of 18th-century Stockholm to unmask a ruthless murderer before a young workhouse laborer becomes a next victim.
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Headhunters
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction. Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events that puts Roger's life in danger.
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The Son
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction, Audio CD. Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father's suicide. By the award-winning author of the Harry Hole series.
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The Bat
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction. Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.
Detective Harry Hole series #1 The Bat. Fiction #2 Cockroaches. Fiction #3 The Redbreast. Fiction #4 Nemesis. Fiction #5 The Devil's Star. Fiction #6 The Redeemer. Fiction, audio-CD #7 The Snowman. Fiction, audio-CD, large print #8 The Leopard. Fiction, large print, audio CD #9 Phantom. Fiction, large print, audio-CD #10 Police. Fiction, audio-CD #11 The Thirst. fiction, large print, audio-CD, Axis 360 eBook #12 Knife. Fiction, Axis 360 eBook
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Blood on Snow: A Novel
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction. Gifted with an unexpected capacity for love, as well as a talent for murder, Olav, a "fixer" who works for Oslo's crime kingpin, discovers that his boss might want him "fixed" due to the fact that he knows too much about his business—and has fallen in love with his wife.
Blood on Snow series #1 Blood on Snow. Fiction, audio-CD, Axis 360 eBook #2 Midnight Sun. Fiction, large print, audio-CD, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook
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The Dying Detective
by Leif G. W Persson
Mystery. After suffering a stroke that reveals additional health problems, Swedish homicide detective Lars Martin Johansson launches an investigation into a cold case murder from his hospital bed with the help of a rebellious young woman.
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Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime
by Leif G. W. Persson
Fiction. A first entry in a trilogy inspired by the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme traces an investigation into an unknown American's death in Stockholm that reveals a complex web of espionage and intelligence failures.
Story of a Crime trilogy #1 Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End. Fiction #2 Another Time, Another Life. Fiction #3 Free Falling, As If In a Dream. Fiction
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Quicksand
by Malin Persson Giolito
Fiction. After spending nine months in jail awaiting trial for her involvement in a mass shooting that took the lives of her boyfriend and best friend in a prep school in Stockholm’s richest suburb, Maja finally reveals the circumstances that brought her there.
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Marked for Life
by Emelie Schepp
Mystery. Bestselling author Emelie Schepp introduces us to the enigmatic, unforgettable Jana Berzelius in this first novel of a chilling trilogy. When a high-ranking head of the migration board is found shot to death in his living room, there is no shortage of suspects. But no one expects to find the mysterious child-sized handprint in the childless home. A few days later, the body of a preteen boy is discovered, and with him, the murder weapon that killed him and the original victim. To protect her own hidden past, public prosecutor Jana Berzelius must find the suspect behind these murders, before the police do.
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The Undesired
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fiction. Decades after two boys go missing from a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland, a single father investigates alleged abuse at the center before discovering baffling links between the long-ago disappearance and the accident that killed his ex-wife.
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Last Rituals
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fiction. Enlisted by a murder victim's family to discern the truth about who was really responsible, attorney Thóra Guomundsdottir and her new partner, Matthew Reich, journey to a remote corner of Iceland, where they discover that the victim had recently joined a secret group of occultists.
Thóra Guomundsdottir series #1 Last Rituals. Fiction #2 My Soul to Take. Fiction #3 Ashes to Dust. Fiction #4 The Day is Dark. Fiction #6 The Silence of the Sea. Fiction
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The Legacy: A Thriller
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fiction. Required to both question and protect a traumatized 7-year-old girl who is the only witness to a murder, rookie detective Huldar and psychologist Freyja navigate elusive clues left behind by an unusually slippery killer. By the award-winning author of The Silence of the Sea.
Children's House series #1 The Legacy. Fiction #2 The Reckoning. Fiction
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The Other Son: A Novel
by Alexander Söderberg
Playaway audio. A follow-up to The Andalucian Friend finds Sophie Brinkmann using 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. By an internationally acclaimed author.
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The Believer: A Novel
by Joakim Zander
Fiction. An NYC trend spotter returns to her Stockholm borough home to discover the truth about her missing brother's alleged ties to ISIS, while a human rights researcher discovers she may be unwittingly contributing to the dark agendas of powerful forces.
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The Friend: A Novel
by Joakim Zander
Fiction. Embroiled in a passionate affair with an enigmatic war photographer, a rookie international diplomat finds his life upended by a Swedish intelligence claim that his lover is wanted on terrorism charges.
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