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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!
"[A] quirky, big-hearted novel...Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure." —People...
A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!
"[A] quirky, big-hearted novel...Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it's a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure." —People...
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return to the Girl in the Dragon Tattoo series in this ripped-from-the-headlines, high-octane follow-up to Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. • Also known as the Millennium series
“Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans—our punk hacker heroine is in good hands.… A twisty, bloody thrill ride.… An instant page-turner.”...
“Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans—our punk hacker heroine is in good hands.… A twisty, bloody thrill ride.… An instant page-turner.”...
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Detective Varg novels volume 1
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English
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"The detectives who work in Malmo Police's Department of Sensitive Crimes take their job very seriously. The lead detective, Ulf Varg, prioritizes his cases above even his dog's mental health ... [In this book, the department] takes on three extremely strange cases. First, the detectives investigate how and why a local business owner was stabbed--in the back of the knee. Next, a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. And in the final investigation,...
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2010
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English
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January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the murders. But when Birgitta discovers the diary of another Andrén - a gang master on the American transcontinental railway in the nineteenth...
5) Box 21
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Ewert Grens thrillers volume 2
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Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
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393 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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When a severely wounded woman is brought to a hospital in Stockholm, doctors are horrified to learn that her injuries are the result of a brutal whipping. She is Lydia, a victim of people-trafficking, a young girl from Lithuania sold by her boyfriend and now trapped in a Stockholm brothel, forced to repay her 'debt'. In the same hospital, police officer Sven Sundkvist and senior officer Ewert Grens are chasing a lead that may just expose a notorious...
6) Sun storm
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Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 1
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Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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310 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help...
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Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 2
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
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321 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called to the sleepy coastal town of Kalbringen to assist the local police in the investigation of two recent ax murders. Soon the case turns from bad to worse when another body turns up and one of Van Veeterenś colleagues, a young female detective, disappears without a trace. Now Van Veeteren must find the killer, and, it is hoped, his colleague, before anyone else comes to harm.
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Embla Nystrom volume 2
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
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320 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Beartown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot...
10) Gente ansiosa
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2021]
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389 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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Ann Lindell novels volume 4
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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310 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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A Swedish county commissioner walks out of a high-level meeting and disappears. Many years later, one of the town's natives is convinced that he's caught a glimpse of the missing man while traveling in Bangalore, India. When the rumors reach his hometown, a veteran police officer stumbles across a seemingly unrelated case. Ann Lindell, Eriksson's series detective, must investigate a severed female foot found where a striking number of inhabitants...
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Ann Lindell novels volume 1
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007?], c2006
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311 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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When a jogger finds a dead body in the snow, the members of Sweden's Uppsala police force uncover a victim with an unsettling history. John Jonsson, known to everyone as Little John, was a respectable family man and a local expert on tropical fish. But he had been quite a troublemaker, and his delinquent past seems to have caught up with him. Despite being on maternity leave, Inspector Ann Lindell is determined to find John's murderer. The cruel cat-and-mouse...
13) The shadow girls
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2012
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English
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Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
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"Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. Change is coming to Sweden's far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala...
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Ann Lindell novels volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in his otherwise quiet upper-class neighborhood. Not everybody is happy with the choice of winner. Mysterious incidents start to occur. Boyish pranks say the police, but what follows is certainly not innocent amusement. Police inspector Ann Lindell becomes involved in the case and immediately is transported back into her own past.
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Linda Wallander mysteries volume 1
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Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2005
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383 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes. In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten corrections and amendments on every page. A string of incidents, including attacks on domestic...
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Kurt Wallander volume 4
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2006
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325 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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After a year on sick leave, for killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander is ready to leave the Ystad police force. His plans are abandoned, however, when a friend who had asked him to investigate the death of his father is himself found dead. Teaming with Ann-Britt Hoglund, the department's first female detective, Wallander's investigation leads to a powerful business tycoon engaging in extralegal activities.
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Ann Lindell novels volume 3
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
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361 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Ann Lindell and her motley crew of colleagues are faced with a most baffling murder case in which all clues lead straight back to a popular local restaurant named Dakar. The owner, Slobodan Andersson, has some shady connections in his past, and his partner's reputation is equally murky. The kitchen crew is not above suspicion, either. The meat chef is an oddball, to say the least, while unbeknownst to the rest, the newest hire's personal life is a...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2008
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472 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last--revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door--a girl who has never seen a...
20) To cook a bear
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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426 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"To cook a bear is a fantastic tale set in the far north of Sweden in 1852. It follows a runaway Sami boy and his mentor, the revivalist preacher Laestadius, as they investigate a murder in their village along with the mysteries of life"--
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