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The Shadow District

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The Voices Beyond

Johan Theorin

Nordic NoirDual TimelineCold CaseWorld War II
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The Last Pilgrim

Gard Sveen · 538 pages

Nordic NoirDual TimelineWorld War IICrime
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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

Nordic NoirDual TimelineWorld War IICrime
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Nordic NoirCold CaseCrimeAtmospheric
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The Hidden Child

Camilla Lackberg · 528 pages

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.

Nordic NoirCold CaseDual TimelineWorld War II
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The Butterfly House

Katrine Engberg · 352 pages

"A compelling new crime thriller featuring Copenhagen-based police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner, who work to solve a series of sordid murders that have roots in the care of vulnerable hospital patients and at-risk children -- and to expose a murderer who specializes in cold, cold blood..."-- Six days ago a paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbled upon the naked body of a

Nordic NoirCold CaseCrimeDetective Protagonist
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Until Thy Wrath be Past

Asa Larsson · 250 pages

It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police Inspectors

Nordic NoirDual TimelineCrimeDetective Protagonist
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Where Roses Never Die

Gunnar Staalesen · 260 pages

Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her family and community is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Almost 25 years later, Mette's mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig, he uncovers an intricate web of secrets.

Nordic NoirCold CaseCrimeDetective Protagonist
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The Purity of Vengeance

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Nordic NoirCold CaseCrimeMystery
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The Hunting Dogs

Jorn Lier Horst

Nordic NoirCold CaseCrimeDetective Protagonist
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The fifth season

Mons Kallentoft · 522 pages

"It's early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily mutliated body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of torture are all too visible. Inspector Malin Fors immediately draws parallels between this case and that of Maria Murvall, the young woman who was found raped and brutally beaten in the forest several years ago. Maria has been living as a mute

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg/ Vance Larsson (Simon (NRT)) · 656 pages

It?s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden ... and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It?s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet?s disappearance ... and about Lisbeth S

Nordic NoirCold CaseCrimeMystery
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Rupture

Ragnar Jonasson · 272 pages

Nordic NoirCold CaseDetective ProtagonistMystery
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Frozen Assets

Quentin Bates · 330 pages

Officer Gunnhildur investigates the discovery of a body in an Icelandic fishing village and uncovers a web of political intrigue and corruption.

Nordic NoirCrimeDetective ProtagonistMystery
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An Event in Autumn

Henning Mankell · 169 pages

Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden u the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallander attempts to get his new life back on course by finding the woman's killer with the aid of his daughter

Nordic NoirCold CaseMysteryDetective Protagonist
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Room No. 10

Ake Edwardson · 447 pages

A young woman is discovered hanged in a room in a decrepit hotel, and Gothenburg's Chief Inspector Erik Winter must try to figure out what happened. As Winter looks around, he realizes that he was in the same hotel room many years earlier, when it was the last known location of a woman who subsequently disappeared and was never found. The two women seem to have nothing in common except for this ho

Nordic NoirCold CaseCrimeDetective Protagonist
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Spring Tide

Cilla Borjlind, Rolf Borjlind · 474 pages

A gripping, cinematic crime thriller from the scriptwriters known as the king and queen of Scandinavian crime, expertly crafted and full of twists and turns The spring tides are the highest of the year in Nordkoster; the beach will be covered in particularly deep water tonight. Three men on the beach are digging a hole, covertly watched by a young boy. His intrigue turns to horror as he makes out

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Kissed a Sad Goodbye

Deborah Crombie · 440 pages

Dual TimelineWorld War IICrimeAtmospheric
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The Singing Of The Dead

Dana Stabenow · 320 pages

Cold CaseDual TimelineCrimeDetective Protagonist
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The Frozen Dead

Bernard Minier · 496 pages

"In a snowbound valley, deep in the French Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is b

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Darkness, Darkness:

John Harvey · 392 pages

Cold CaseDual TimelineCrimeDetective Protagonist
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In a Dry Season

Peter Robinson · 439 pages

Cold CaseDual TimelineWorld War IIAtmospheric

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