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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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Police

Jo Nesbo · 435 pages

The police urgently need Harry Hole . . . A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can't help. For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and h

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The Owl Always Hunts At Night

Samuel Bjork · 480 pages

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The Crow Girl

Erik Axl Sund · 768 pages

"The newest international crime novel sensation: a fiercely suspenseful psychological thriller in which two women--a police detective and a psychotherapist--are faced with the question: how much suffering can one human being inflict upon another before he ceases to be human and becomes a monster? In a Stockholm city park, the hideously abused body of a young boy is stumbled upon. Detective Superin

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The Hypnotist

Lars Kepler · 520 pages

Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness—the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more

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The Man Who Watched Women

Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt · 528 pages

As a heatwave blazes in Stockholm, a series of women are found brutally murdered and the Criminal Investigation Department is getting nowhere. The murders bear all the hallmarks of Edward Hinde, the serial killer jailed by psychological profiler Sebastian Bergman fifteen years earlier. Sebastian desperately needs some order in his chaotic life. The revelation that he has a daughter, Vanja, could

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The Fifth Woman

Henning Mankell · 448 pages

When a serial killer confounds him and his team of detectives with increasingly brutal murders, Wallander must discover how these seemingly unrelated deaths are connected before the killer strikes again.

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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.

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The Scarred Woman

Jussi Adler-Olsen · 512 pages

"Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder. In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection bet

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The Millennium Trilogy

Stieg Larsson

Follows the adventures of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer prodigy Lisbeth Salander after they team up to find a woman who went missing decades earlier, investigate rumors of sex trafficking, and become involved in exposing corruption at the highest levels of Swedish government, business, and society.

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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

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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

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Dreamless

Jorgen Brekke · 311 pages

"A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered--her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one can quite place. Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, ... still recovering from brain surgery, is called in to investigate. Singsaker ... fears the worst when another young g

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The Chosen

Kristina Ohlsson · 536 pages

On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective.

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Two Soldiers

Anders Roslund, Borge Hellstrom · 352 pages

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Helsinki White

James Thompson

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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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Who Watcheth

Helene Tursten · 291 pages

"He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them; as long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death. A woman is found dead in a cemetery, strangled and covered in plastic. A thorough examination of the corpse reveals that the killer left behind no evidence. But just a few days before her death, the victim received a flower, an u

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Bad Blood

Arne Dahl · 341 pages

When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting inform

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Summer Death

Mons Kallentoft · 455 pages

A teenage girl is found naked and bleeding in a city park in Linköping, Sweden. She has no memory of what happened to her; another grisly discovery is made on a lakeside beach, and the whole town is on edge. Malin Fors must uncover the secrets behind these crimes, potentially putting herself and her own family at risk.

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The Caveman

Jorn Lier Horst

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The Last Pilgrim

Gard Sveen · 538 pages

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