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Frozen Tracks

Ake Edwardson

Nordic NoirKids in DangerDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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Hour of the Wolf

Hakan Nesser

Nordic NoirDeath of a ChildDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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The Troubled Man

Henning Mankell · 496 pages

"Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his home in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for involving himself in the case as Hakan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months e

Nordic NoirMissing PersonDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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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

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistMissing Person
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The Ice Child

Camilla Lackberg

Nordic NoirKids in DangerMissing PersonDetective Fiction
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Strange Shores

Arnaldur Indridason · 296 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistAtmospheric
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Unseen

Mari Jungstedt · 368 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistAtmospheric
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The Snowman

Jo Nesbo · 550 pages

"In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistMissing Person
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo · 183 pages

"A well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace.Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad has his summer vacation abruptly terminated when the top brass at the foreign office pack him off to Budapest to search for Alf Matsson, a well-known Swedish journalist who has vanished. Beck investigates viperous Eastern European underworld figures and--at the risk of his lif

Nordic NoirMissing PersonDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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The Long Way Home

Louise Penny · 392 pages

At first enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor search for her missing estranged husband and teams up with two former colleagues on a search that reveals the workings of a psychologically damaged mind.

Missing PersonDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSlow-Paced
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Rupture

Ragnar Jonasson · 272 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistAtmospheric
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Foxglove Summer

Ben Aaronovitch · 354 pages

"When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable Peter Grant has to leave London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It's purely routine, Nightingale thinks he'll be done in less than a day. But Peter's never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the

Missing PersonKids in DangerDetective ProtagonistDetective Fiction
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Innocent Graves

Peter Robinson · 352 pages

The worst that can possibly happen . . . has. A beautiful child is dead -- defiled and murdered in a lonely graveyard on a fog-shrouded evening. It is the sort of horrific crime Chief Inspector Alan Banks fled the city to escape. But the slaying of a bright and lovely teenager from a wealthy, respected family is not the end of a nightmare. Lies, dark secrets, unholy accusations, and hints of sexua

Detective FictionDetective ProtagonistKids in DangerAtmospheric
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The Coffin Maker’s Garden

Stuart MacBride · 496 pages

Death of a ChildKids in DangerDetective FictionMissing Person
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On Beulah Height

Reginald Hill · 440 pages

Kids in DangerMissing PersonDetective FictionAtmospheric
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The Harbor

Katrine Engberg · 352 pages

Missing PersonDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistKids in Danger
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Detective Inspector Huss

Helene Tursten · 356 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistSlow-Paced
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When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro · 320 pages

'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai o

Missing PersonDetective ProtagonistAtmosphericSlow-Paced
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Search the Dark

Charles Todd · 304 pages

Detective FictionDetective ProtagonistSlow-PacedMissing Person
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Where's My Son?

John C. Dalglish · 183 pages

Missing PersonKids in DangerDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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The Princess of Burundi

Kjell Eriksson · 311 pages

Nordic NoirDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistAtmospheric
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Dance Hall of the Dead

Tony Hillerman · 224 pages

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archa

Missing PersonDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistAtmospheric
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Point of Hopes

Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett

Kids in DangerMissing PersonDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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A Conspiracy of Faith

Jussi Adler-Olsen · 504 pages

Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.

Nordic NoirMissing PersonDetective ProtagonistDetective Fiction
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