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If You Like...The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Snowman
by Jo Nesbø
The award-winning Norwegian author of The Devil's Star finds the irascible Harry Hole investigating the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found on a mysteriously built snowman, a case that is complicated by subsequent abductions and a menacing letter.
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Red Wolf: a Novel
by Liza Marklund
In a book by the co-author of the best-selling thriller The Postcard Killers, a spate of killings that began with the murder of a Swedish journalist prompts crime reporter Annika Bengtzon to look into the deaths, in an investigation that forces her to question her own husband's honesty.
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The Exception: a Novel
by Christian Jungersen
When two of the four women who work at the Danish Centre for Genocide Studies begin receiving death threats, they suspect that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Bosnian torturer and war criminal, but as they try to track down the source of the threats, they discover that it could be someone in their very midst.
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Three Seconds
by Anders Roslund
Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.
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Jar City: a Reykjavik Thriller
by Arnaldur Indriðason
Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson heads up the investigation into the killing of a solitary man, found murdered in his Reykjavik apartment, only to discover that the victim has only two friends, one in prison and one missing for twenty-five years, and that the dead man had been accused but not convicted of a rape forty years earlier.
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Snow Angels
by James Thompson
A first entry in a new series introduces Inspector Kari Vaara, a hardened detective who investigates the racially charged murder of a Somali immigrant during a bitterly cold and dark Christmas season in Finland, a case that takes its toll on his marriage to his pregnant American wife.
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Sun and Shadow: an Erik Winter Novel
by Åke Edwardson
Enjoying a satisfying family life and career as Sweden's youngest chief inspector, Erik Winter faces a daunting case involving a double murder and a suspect with possible links to the gothic world and the local police force.
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Box 21
by Anders Roslund
Sold into sex slavery in their pursuit of better lives in Sweden, Lithuanian girls Lydia and Alena learn of a chance to secure their freedom and take revenge on their enslavers, an effort for which a pair of police officers confront a notorious mob enforcer and a destructive junkie.
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The Ice Princess
by Camilla Läckberg
After she returns to her hometown to learn that her friend, Alex, was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, Erica Falck researches her friend's past in hopes of writing book and soon joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.
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Sun Storm
by Åsa Larsson
When a body is discovered in her hometown, a young Swedish lawyer is called back home, only to become traped in a perilous web of betrayal, suspicion, religious fanaticism, and death, in a suspense novel set against the backdrop of northern Sweden.
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Mind's Eye: an Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Håkan Nesser
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren becomes suspicious about the seemingly open-and-shut case against Janek Mitter, convicted of killing his wife while drunk, especially when Mitter also becomes a homicide victim, and launches a full-scale investigation into both slayings, linked to a mysterious letter written by the second victim, to unravel the truth and find the real killer.
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Detective Inspector Huss
by Helene Tursten
While investigating the apparent suicide of a wealthy financier who is connected to one of the most powerful families in Sweden, Detective Inspector Irene Huss soon finds herself immersed in a murder mystery involving motorcycle gang members, skinheads, immigrants, and neo-Nazis.
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Purge
by Sofi Oksanen
Aliide Truu, an older woman guilty of crimes during the Soviet occupation of Estonia, takes in a young woman, Zara, who is trying to escape a sex-trafficking ring, and as they work through their suspicion, the two rediscover a tragic family history from the past
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Mallory's Oracle
by Carol O'Connell
Escaping from the streets of New York when a kind police sergeant takes her in, Kathleen Mallory grows up to become a proud member of the NYPD and embarks on a dangerous case to find her father's murderer.
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
When her six-year-old neighbor falls to his death, and no one is willing to suspect foul play, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jasperson finds her own investigation taking her into the files of a Danish company.
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Retribution
by Jilliane Hoffman
When a distinguished female prosecutor is confronted by the most dangerous predator she has ever encountered, she discovers that she must make a difficult choice between justice and retribution.
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God's Mercy: Guds Barmhärtighet
by Kerstin Ekman
When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiancé, she is ill prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated territory, she encounters the overwhelming and unpredictable forces of nature and demoralizing poverty and ignorance while also gaining access to the unfamiliar world of nomadic Sami reindeer herders.
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