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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

Nordic NoirDetective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementDetective Fiction
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Frozen Tracks

Ake Edwardson

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The Water's Edge

Karin Fossum

Nordic NoirDetective ProtagonistSparse ProseLaw Enforcement
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The Preacher

Camilla Lackberg · 419 pages

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.

Nordic NoirLaw EnforcementDetective ProtagonistDetective Fiction
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Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell · 284 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionLaw EnforcementSlow-Paced
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Dregs

Jorn Lier Horst · 310 pages

Chief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature.He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world.Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, c

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Cop Hater

Ed McBain

Detective ProtagonistSparse ProseLaw EnforcementDetective Fiction
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Unseen

Mari Jungstedt · 368 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSerial Killer
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Detective Inspector Huss

Helene Tursten · 356 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistLaw Enforcement
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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu

Law EnforcementDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSlow-Paced
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Midwinter Blood

Mons Kallentoft · 454 pages

WHEN THE ICE MELTS, WHAT REMAINS? Thirty-four years old, blond, single, divorced with a teenage daughter, Fors is the most driven superintendent who has ever worked on the police force in her small, isolated town. And the most talented. In her job, she is constantly moving through the borderland between life and death. Her path in life is violent and hazardous. Linköping, Sweden, is surrou

Nordic NoirLaw EnforcementDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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Woman with Birthmark

Hakan Nesser · 335 pages

Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and murder.

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Time Heals No Wounds

Hendrik Falkenberg · 350 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistLaw Enforcement
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Strange Shores

Arnaldur Indridason · 296 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSlow-Paced
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Misterioso

Arne Dahl · 339 pages

Stockholm, milieu des années 1990. Trois gros bonnets de la finance sont retrouvés assassinés. "L'équipe A" du commissaire Hultin, unité spéciale composée de six policiers, mène l'enquête. Pour sa troisième victime, le meurtrier a laissé des indices : une balle fichée dans le mur et une cassette de jazz contenant un enregistrement très rare de Thelonius Monk, Misterioso.

Nordic NoirLaw EnforcementDetective FictionSerial Killer
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My First Murder

Leena Lehtolainen · 242 pages

Maria Kallio has just been assigned her first murder investigation. To prove to herself and her squad that she has what it takes to be a detective, she'll have to solve the death of Tommi Peltonen. Found floating facedown at the water's edge of his Helsinki villa, Tommi had invited his choir group to spend a weekend at his retreat. But beneath the choir's seemingly tight-knit bonds seethed bitter

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistLaw Enforcement
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Pietr the Latvian

Georges Simenon · 161 pages

Law EnforcementDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSparse Prose
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The Absent One

Jussi Adler-Olsen · 541 pages

Detective Carl Mørck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries. This is the second book in the author's "Department Q" series.

Nordic NoirDetective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementSerial Killer
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Blodmåne

Katrine Engberg · 366 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSerial Killer
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The Chalk Circle Man

Fred Vargas · 256 pages

When blue chalk circles begin to appear on the pavement in neighborhoods around Paris, detective Commissaire Adamsberg is alone in thinking that they are far from amusing. As he studies each new circle and the increasingly bizarre objects they contain, he senses the cruelty that lies within whoever is responsible. And when a circle is discovered containing a woman with her throat cut, Adamsberg kn

Law EnforcementDetective ProtagonistDetective FictionSerial Killer
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The Cold Cold Ground

Adrian McKinty · 320 pages

Law EnforcementDetective ProtagonistDetective FictionSerial Killer
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The Hummingbird

Kati Hiekkapelto · 363 pages

Anna Fekete, who fled the Yugoslavian wars as a child, has a past. Just beginning her career as a criminal investigator in northern Finnish coastal town, she is thrust into a high-profile, seemingly unsolvable case that has riveted the nation. It doesn't help that her middle-aged new partner, Esko, doesn't bother hiding his racist prejudices, and Anna becomes the target of a systematic campaign to

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The Princess of Burundi

Kjell Eriksson · 311 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistLaw Enforcement
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Cold Granite

Stuart MacBride · 458 pages

The debut thriller from a bright new Scottish talent set to rival Ian Rankin.It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.If that wasn't enough, Logan

Law EnforcementDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSerial Killer

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