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Scandinavian/Nordic Crime Fiction
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Victim without a Face
by Stefan Ahnhem
Mystery. A first entry in an internationally best-selling and award-winning series from Sweden follows the efforts of lead investigator Fabian Risk to work with minimal evidence to solve the gruesome murders of two bullies who once tormented him.
Fabian Risk series #1 Victim without a Face. Mystery #2 The Ninth Grave. Mystery #3 Eighteen Below. (forthcoming Dec. 2018)
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Broken
by Karin Fossum
Mystery. Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict.
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I Can See in the Dark
by Karin Fossum
Mystery. Guilty of a terrible crime, Riktor isn't surprised when a police officer bursts into his house to arrest him, except that he didn't actually commit the particular crime he is being charged with and must defend his innocence without further incriminating himself.
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The Ice Beneath Her
by Camilla Grebe
Fiction. Investigating a grisly murder in a business tycoon's Stockholm residence, detective Peter Lindgren and psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen navigate complications in their own relationship while tracking down the businessman, who may have been having an affair with the victim.
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The Quiet Girl
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. A mysterious order of nuns promises Kaspar Krone, a circus clown with a gambling debt who is wanted for tax evasion, a reprieve from the authorities in exchange for his help in safeguarding children with mystical abilities--talents that he also shares.
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Borderliners
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. Challenging ideas of education and childhood, a disturbing novel by the acclaimed author of Smilla's Sense of Snow is about a boy who grows up in institutions and becomes drawn to outsiders at an elite private school.
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The Elephant Keepers' Children
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. Enjoying life on an island where all faiths coexist peacefully, precocious 14-year-old Peter and his siblings are shocked when their devout vicar father and eccentric artisan mother go missing at the height of a relentless effort to boost church attendance. By the best-selling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
Fiction. Smilla Jaspersen befriends her neighbor, a six-year old boy who appears to be neglected, but when he dies in what is termed a tragic accident, Smilla begins to suspect that he was murdered.
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Ordeal
by Jørn Lier Horst
When a woman haunted by her dysfunctional family discovers crucial evidence in the safe of her late grandfather's estate, Inspector William Wisting is forced to compromise his loyalties and the police force's reputation in order to solve a morally challenging cold case.
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Voices
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Mystery. At a grand Reykjavik hotel, when the doorman has been stabbed in his dingy basement room and the manager tries to keep the murder under wraps, Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel and the web of malice, greed, and corruption that lies beneath its posh surface to find a killer.
Inspector Sveinsson series #3 Voices. Mystery #9 Strange Shores. Mystery #10 Reykjavik Nights. Mystery. #11 Into Oblivion. Mystery, Axis 360 eBook
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The Shadow District: A Thriller
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Mystery, Axis 360 ebook. Investigating the murder of an elderly man, a retired detective discovers links between the victim, the World War II case of a strangled woman, and a pair of attacks that suggest the wrong man may have been arrested decades earlier.
Reykjavik wartime mysteries #1 The Shadow District, Mystery, Axis 360 ebook #2 The Shadow Killer, Mystery, Axis 360 ebook
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Doctor Death: A Novel
by Lene Kaaberbøl
Fiction. Wanting to follow in her pathologist father's footsteps in spite of the taboos of 1894 France, ambitious Madeleine Karno pursues alternative methods of investigation to solve the murders of a teen girl and a priest.
Madeleine Karno mysteries #1 Doctor Death, Fiction #2 A Lady in Shadows, Axis 360 ebook
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The Swede: A Novel
by Robert Karjel
Fiction. A first English-language translation by a U.S.-trained Swedish military pilot depicts the efforts of a Swedish security police officer with a double life and an enigmatic U.S. intelligence agent to outmaneuver a terrorist plot.
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The Sandman
by Lars Kepler
Fiction. The internationally best-selling author of The Hypnotist presents the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and two brilliant police agents who must hold fast to their sanity to beat him at his own game and rescue a girl who went missing 13 years earlier.
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The Stranger
by Camilla Läckberg
A suspicious drunk driving case and the death of an unpopular contestant on a local reality television show only seem unrelated when Detective Patrik Hestrom begins his investigation in this new novel by the author of The Ice Princess.
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries #4 The Stranger. Fiction #5 The Hidden Child. Fiction #6 The Drowning. Fiction, Axis 360 eBook, Axis 360 eAudiobook #7 The Lost Boy. Fiction, Axis 360 eBook
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Fall of Man in Wilmslow: The Death and Life of Alan Turing
by David Lagercrantz
Fiction. Suspecting that foul play may be behind the suicide of mathematical genius Alan Turing, 1950s detective Leonard Corell defies his superiors to investigate the Bletchley Park operation while making astonishing discoveries about his own life. By the best-selling author of The Girl in the Spider's Web.
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Easy Money
by Jens Lapidus
Fiction. A fast-paced story by one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense lawyers follows encounters between a vengeful escaped drug dealer, a money-strapped student and a disenchanted mafia thug whose efforts to establish places for themselves are complicated by dangerous elements on both sides of the law.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Fiction. Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by her powerful family, her uncle, convinced that she had been murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional clan, hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
Millennium series #1 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Fiction, audio-CD, graphic novel, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook #2 The Girl Who Played with Fire. Fiction, audio-CD, graphic novel, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook #3 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Fiction, audio-CD, graphic novel, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook #4 The Girl in the Spider's Web (by David Lagercrantz). Fiction, Playaway audio, large print, audio CD, Axis 360 ebook & eAudiobook #5 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (by David Lagercrantz), Fiction, large print, audio CD, Axis 360 ebook & eAudiobook, Playaway audio
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Let Me In
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Fiction. In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, 12-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor, in a first novel that is the basis for the forthcoming movie.
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Kennedy's Brain
by Henning Mankell
Fiction. Convinced that her beloved twenty-eight-year-old son was killed in spite of a police ruling that he committed suicide, archaeologist Louise Cantor travels throughout the world in search of answers, an endeavor marked by additional murders, dangerous secrets, and sobering truths about the African AIDS epidemic.
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The Man from Beijing
by Henning Mankell
Fiction. In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of 19 people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the 19th-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case's eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers. By the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.
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The Shadow Girls
by Henning Mankell
Fiction. Ordered by his editor to write a crime novel to reignite his stalled career, poet Jesper Humlin reluctantly travels to Gothenburg, where three unlikely pupils of an impromptu writing workshop draw him into their culturally driven, compelling worlds. By the award-winning author of the Kurt Wallander series.
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Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery
by Henning Mankell
Mystery. Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared.
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After the Fire
by Henning Mankell
Elderly recluse Fredrik Welin, who lives a quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden, is forced to allow the outside world back into his life when his house is destroyed in a fire. Fiction, Large Print
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The Final Word
by Liza Marklund
Axis 360 ebook. Annika Bengtzon has spent her career telling stories that need to be heard. As a journalist, she’s always been at the front line of criminal reporting, alongside the investigating officers. And now a court case that she’s been reporting on—the savage murder of a homeless man—has begun to attract a lot of attention. With the stakes rising by the day, Annika is once again flung to the heart of a complex case. But nagging at the back of her mind is her sister’s mysterious absence. After a series of anxious text messages, she’s not heard another word. In the midst of a tense public situation, Annika’s own complicated past looks set to rear its head. Some voices refuse to be silenced.
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Norwegian by Night
by Derek B. Miller
Fiction. After witnessing a murder in Oslo, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman, Sheldon Horrowitz , flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.
Sigrid Odegard series #1 Norwegian by Night, fiction #2 American by Day, Fiction
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Headhunters
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction. Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events that puts Roger's life in danger.
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The Son
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction, Audio CD. Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father's suicide. By the award-winning author of the Harry Hole series.
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The Bat
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction. Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.
Detective Harry Hole series #1 The Bat. Fiction #2 Cockroaches. Fiction #3 The Redbreast. Fiction #4 Nemesis. Fiction #5 The Devil's Star. Fiction #6 The Redeemer. Fiction, large print, audio-CD #7 The Snowman. Fiction, audio-CD, large print #8 The Leopard. Fiction, large print, audio CD #9 Phantom. Fiction, large print, audio-CD #10 Police. Fiction, audio-CD #11 The Thirst. fiction, large print, audio-CD, Axis 360 eBook
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Blood on Snow: A Novel
by Jo Nesbø
Fiction. Gifted with an unexpected capacity for love, as well as a talent for murder, Olav, a "fixer" who works for Oslo's crime kingpin, discovers that his boss might want him "fixed" due to the fact that he knows too much about his business—and has fallen in love with his wife.
Blood on Snow series #1 Blood on Snow. Fiction, audio-CD, Axis 360 eBook #2 Midnight Sun. Fiction, large print, audio-CD, Axis 360 eBook & eAudiobook
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The Dying Detective
by Leif G. W Persson
Mystery. After suffering a stroke that reveals additional health problems, Swedish homicide detective Lars Martin Johansson launches an investigation into a cold case murder from his hospital bed with the help of a rebellious young woman.
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Quicksand
by Malin Persson Giolito
Fiction. After spending nine months in jail awaiting trial for her involvement in a mass shooting that took the lives of her boyfriend and best friend in a prep school in Stockholm’s richest suburb, Maja finally reveals the circumstances that brought her there.
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Marked for Life
by Emelie Schepp
Mystery. Bestselling author Emelie Schepp introduces us to the enigmatic, unforgettable Jana Berzelius in this first novel of a chilling trilogy. When a high-ranking head of the migration board is found shot to death in his living room, there is no shortage of suspects. But no one expects to find the mysterious child-sized handprint in the childless home. A few days later, the body of a preteen boy is discovered, and with him, the murder weapon that killed him and the original victim. To protect her own hidden past, public prosecutor Jana Berzelius must find the suspect behind these murders, before the police do.
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The Undesired
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fiction. Decades after two boys go missing from a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland, a single father investigates alleged abuse at the center before discovering baffling links between the long-ago disappearance and the accident that killed his ex-wife.
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Last Rituals
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fiction. Enlisted by a murder victim's family to discern the truth about who was really responsible, attorney Thóra Guomundsdottir and her new partner, Matthew Reich, journey to a remote corner of Iceland, where they discover that the victim had recently joined a secret group of occultists.
Thóra Guomundsdottir series #1 Last Rituals. Fiction #2 My Soul to Take. Fiction #3 Ashes to Dust. Fiction #4 The Day is Dark. Fiction #6 The Silence of the Sea. Fiction
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The Legacy: A Thriller
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fiction. Required to both question and protect a traumatized 7-year-old girl who is the only witness to a murder, rookie detective Huldar and psychologist Freyja navigate elusive clues left behind by an unusually slippery killer. By the award-winning author of The Silence of the Sea.
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The Other Son: A Novel
by Alexander Söderberg
Playaway audio. A follow-up to The Andalucian Friend finds Sophie Brinkmann using a family murder to plot a daring escape from comatose Hector Guzman's crime family, an effort that compels her to forge dubious alliances and tap darker aspects of her own nature. By an internationally acclaimed author.
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The Believer: A Novel
by Joakim Zander
Fiction. An NYC trend spotter returns to her Stockholm borough home to discover the truth about her missing brother's alleged ties to ISIS, while a human rights researcher discovers she may be unwittingly contributing to the dark agendas of powerful forces.
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