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After finding a Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings, crime writer Erica Falck meets with an old friend of her mother's, who is suddenly and violently murdered two days later, and Erica and her husband Detective Patrik Hedström must turn to family wartime diaries for clues.
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Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
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Inspector Fredericka Bergman investigates the kidnapping and murder of a child who had been separated from her mother on a crowded train on a rainy Swedish summer day, a case that points to the work of a brilliant and ruthless killer.
3) The stranger
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Detective Patrik Hedström tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
454 p.
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The discovery could hardly have been more gruesome: An obese, naked, mutilated body hanging from a tree, its bloody torso frozen in the frigid winter air. Assigned to this grisly homicide is superintendent Malin Fors, a 34-year-old divorcee who approaches every case with an intensity that even other investigators can understand.
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Malin Fors novels volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2013
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455 p. ; 24 cm.
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Police superintendent Malin Fors battles the challenges of an unprecedented heat wave in her Swedish burg while investigating an attack on a teenage amnesiac, a case that is complicated by the subsequent murder of another teen.
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Siri Bergman novels volume 1
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009
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315 p.
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Tells the story of a young, recently widowed psychologist who is afraid of the dark and whose past comes to haunt her as she tries to solve crimes, beginning with the brutal murder of one of her patients.
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Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2010
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393 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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After she returns to her hometown to learn that her friend, Alex, was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, biographer Erica Falck researches her friend's past in hopes of writing a book and joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.
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Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjällbacka's dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes. It seems Sverin was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew--a man with something to hide...His high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has just returned to Fjallbacka with her five-year-old son--perhaps can she shed some light on who Sverin really...
10) Three seconds
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Silver Oak
Pub. Date
2010
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489 p. ; 25 cm.
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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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Erik Winter mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
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376 p. ; 24 cm.
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One autumn in Gothenburg, Sweden, Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter must find the link between two cases, one involving assaults on college students and the other, the abduction of toddlers who are quickly returned unharmed.
12) Cell 8
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Silver Oak
Pub. Date
[2011]
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370 pages ; 25 cm.
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An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....
13) Box 21
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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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Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedom?
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Detective Inspector Joona Linna mysteries volume 8
Joona Linna novel volume 8
Killer instinct volume 8
Joona Linna novel volume 8
Killer instinct volume 8
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2022.
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461 pages ; 25 cm.
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When the body of a girl is found in the park, Detective Joona Linna discovers a connection between this murder and a death declared a suicide years before, and, with a serial killer on the loose, must save another girl who has gone missing.
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Patrik Hedström mysteries volume 9
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
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583 pages ; 24 cm.
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January, Fjallbacka. A semi-naked girl wanders through the woods in freezing cold weather. When she finally reaches the road, a car comes out of nowhere. It doesn't manage to stop. By the time Detective Patrik Hedstrom receives word of the accident, the girl has already been identified. Four months ago she disappeared on her way home from the local riding school, and no one has seen her since. It quickly becomes clear that she has been subjected to...
16) The troubled man
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When Kurt Wallander is called into the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer, coincidentally his daughter's future father-in-law, he becomes embroiled in a story of Cold War espionage.
17) The nightmare
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"In this sequel to THE HYPNOTIST, Detective Joona Linna returns to investigate a series of interlinking murders surrounding a suspicious Swedish arms deal"--
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Malin Fors novels volume 3
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Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 21 cm
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"Autumn rains are pouring down on the Swedish countryside, but it's the discovery of a brutally stabbed body floating facedown in the moat of Skogså Castle that chills one town to the bone. Jerry Petersson, the castle's new owner and a notoriously ruthless lawyer and entrepreneur, is now, shall we say, permanently out of business. Meanwhile, Malin Fors, the brilliant but flawed star of the local police force, is already struggling to keep her life...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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392 pages ; 22 cm
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"The Intruder is an unusual story about betrayal and dark secrets. The Andersson family is being sent scary letters without a sender's name. Who could possibly want to harm them? Gotland policeman Fredrik Broman and his colleagues take the threats seriously, but cannot rule out the possibility that it is all a tasteless joke. When the threats escalate and the couple's daughter disappears, all doubts vanish. This is for real. And it is only the beginning....
20) The stonecutter
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2012
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The remote resort of Fjällbacka has seen its share of tragedy, though perhaps none worse than that of the little girl found in a fisherman's net. But the post-mortem reveals that this is no accidental drowning. Local detective Patrik Hedstrõm has just become a father. It is his grim task to discover who could be behind the methodical murder of a child both he and his partner, Erica, knew well. He knows the solution lies with finding the reason for...
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