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1) Easy money
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poor business student is drawn into a world of crime when he falls in love with an heiress and begins mingling with Stockholm's wealthy elite.
2) Quicksand
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
501 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in...
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
4) Misterioso
Author
Series
Intercrime volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Detective Paul Hjelm is placed into an elite team of officers and sent on a mission to track down a killer who has been systematically targeting business leaders, a case that pits them against the Russian Mafia and Sweden's secret wealthy societies.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The definitive account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome." On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, "The party starts!" This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis-and media circus-that would...
6) Spring tide
Author
Publisher
Hesperus Nova
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
474 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
While training to follow in her father's footsteps by joining the police force, Olivia R?onning receives a challenge from her professor to pick a cold case and solve it, unknowingly putting herself in danger.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The case leads her to team up with local detective Ingvar Nymann and together they set about uncovering the clues to these shocking crimes. As the number of mysterious murders starts to increase, Inger Johanne is driven by her need to protect her daughter and starts noticing a pattern. But her discovery of the killer's weakness and the connection to a ruthless international network unintentionally turns the entire threat towards herself and her family....
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Detective Van Veeteren and his associates are left bewildered by the curious murder of a man shot twice in the heart and twice below the belt. Revenge seems to be the motive, in this chilling novel filled with deception, blackmail, and murder.
Author
Series
Annika Bengtzon novels volume 7
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Police Officer Nina Hoffman finds her fellow officer David Lindholm naked on his bed with bullets through his head and stomach. Next to the body is his wife, Julia. The traumatized Julia rambles on about a woman entering the house, killing David and running off with her son, but all the evidence seems to point in Julia?s direction. Annika Bengtzon covers the case and is drawn in headfirst when she sees that Julia is about to be falsely charged. Working...
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
Description
"The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
Author
Series
Martin Beck mystery volume 03
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xii, 180 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Swedish police superintendent Martin Beck conducts a thorough investigation of a series of brutal muggings and child sex murders.
12) The fire witness
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Formats
Description
When a medium contacts the police department with claims about a murder at a rural home for wayward girls, detective Joona Linna investigates bizarre clues only to find himself confronting more violent truths and a figure from his past.
Author
Series
Annika Bengtzon novels volume 8
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Squre Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
530 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there was a third child, a teenage daughter who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she'd envisioned, as she begins to piece together...
Author
Series
Leona Lindberg novels volume 1
Formats
Description
"A naked and bloody seven-year-old girl walks into a bank, clutching a grubby teddy bear. She plays a threatening recording, demanding money. No one dares intervene. The child leaves the bank and disappears, without leaving a trace of evidence. This daring robbery is trusted to highly regarded investigator Leona Lindberg of Stockholm's Violent Crimes Division. But why is Leona ignoring witness statements, and calling in suspects on the barest thread...
15) Bad Blood
Author
Series
Intercrime volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam War-- allowing...
17) Modus: Season 2
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVD (360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two is made up of excitement, love, revenge and hidden secrets that threaten to ruin everything. The American president, Helen Tyler, is on a state visit to Stockholm when, under mysterious circumstances, she vanishes without a trace. During the intensive police investigation, a power struggle takes place between a panic-stricken USA and Sweden, as the threat to one of the world's most powerful people rocks the world.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet ([4] pages ; 19 cm).
Description
Ingrid Bergman's first speaking role was in this hugely charming knockabout comedy, filmed on location in the Monk's Bridge disctrict of Stockholm. Bergman plays an amiable young chambermaid being wooed by a handsome stranger, who may or may not be a jewel thief. Enlivened by cheeky humor and a cast of neighborhood eccentrics, The Count of the Old Town offered Bergman a chance to show off her all-too-rarely-displayed comedy skills.
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (263 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away ... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. It's classic good cop/bad cop, and together with their team they...
Author
Series
Asker volume pt. 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After a high-profile kidnapping case goes wrong, criminal inspector Leonore Asker is relegated to the so-called Department of Lost Souls where she, drawn into a peculiar case, one possibly linked to the kidnapping, is led to the darkest recesses of the city where an unusual kind of evil lurks in the shadows"--
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