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Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
440 p. : 2 maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex?and dangerous. The search for the truth behind the killing eventually uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mikael Blomkvist is contacted by renowned scientist Professor Balder. Fearing for his life, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker. It seems that Lisbeth Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters that will soon bring terror to the streets of Stockholm,...
Author
Series
Ann Lindell novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Cruel Stars of the Night opens one snowy day when thirty-five-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance. And when the corpses of two elderly men do turn up, neither of the dead men is the missing academic. Unexpectedly, the police get help from one of the professor's colleagues, who believes there...
24) Daniel: a novel
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Småland, Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a young San orphan, a boy he christens Daniel and brings with him back to Sweden. Daniel is told to call Bengler "Father," taught to knock on doors and bow, and continually struggles to understand this strange new land of mud and snow that surrounds...
Author
Series
Brinkmann trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
NYPD detective Jack Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him—he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each restaurant through a killer's eyes.
Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have become victims of the same sadistic killers. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter,...
Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have become victims of the same sadistic killers. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter,...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander volume prequel
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At last, a key addition to the Kurt Wallander mystery series: the book of short mysteries that takes us back to the beginning. Here we meet Wallander the twenty-one-year-old patrolman on his first criminal investigation, Wallander the young father facing an unexpected danger on Christmas Eve, Wallander on the brink of middle age solving a case of poisoning, the newly separated Wallander investigating the murder of a local photographer, and Wallander...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country gripped by the upheaval of Soviet disintegration, Major Liepa of the Riga police takes over...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
500 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, and the forensics team is sure that she drowned. Why, then, is the pleasure boat still afloat, and why are there no traces of water on her clothes or body? The next day, a man turns up dead in his state apartment in Stockholm, hanging from a lamphook in the ceiling. All signs...
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a rainy April day, a body--or what is left of it--is found by a young girl. Wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet, or head, it signals the work of a brutal, methodical killer. The victim, Leopold Verhaven, was a track star before he was convicted for killing two of his ex-lovers. He consistently proclaimed his innocence, however, and was killed on the day of his return to society. This latest murder is more than a little perplexing and Chief...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
279 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didnt́ present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying womanś last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have--and in the process, the match that could inflame Swedenś already smoldering anti-immigrant...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
420 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Swedenś former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mayhem in the Stockholm power grid gives way to the rise of countless zombies, sparking delight in a grandfather who hopes for his grandson's return and horror in a husband who witnesses disturbing changes in his revived wife.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
438 p. : 1 map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The...
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Maclehose Press Quercus
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Destino
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
854 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Los lectores que llegaron con el corazon en un puno al final de La chica que sonaba con una cerilla y un bidon de gasolina quizas prefieran no seguir leyendo estas lineas y descubrir por si mismos como sigue la serie y, sobre todo, que le sucede a Lisbeth Salander. Como ya imaginabamos, Lisbeth no esta muerta, aunque no hay muchas razones para cantar victoria: con una bala en el cerebro, necesita un milagro, o el mas habilidoso cirujano, para salvar...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Midsummer's Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Meanwhile, the Ystad police station is experiencing a summer lull. Inspector Kurt Wallander...
Author
Series
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
523 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A video clip is sent to the National Criminal Investigation Department. Someone has secretly filmed a woman through her window from the garden. The next day she is found dead after a frenzied knife attack. The police receive a second film of another unknown woman. There is no way of identifying her before time runs out. When her husband finds her, he is so traumatized that he cleans the whole house and puts her to bed. He may have seen a vital clue...
Author
Series
Detective Varg novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario--a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much to his chagrin, be all bark and no bite. The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no matter how complex. So when Ulf is approached by the girlfriend...
40) The blood spilt
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's midsummer in Sweden — when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest — who made enemies and acolytes in equal number — has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces.... Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson...
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