Marlaine Delargy
Author
Language
English
Description
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in...
2) Snowdrift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström receives a phone call that sends her reeling. It's been fifteen years since Embla's best friend disappeared from a nightclub in Gothenburg, but Embla recognizes her voice immediately, though the call quickly disconnects. Lollo is still alive. But before Embla can dive into the case, she gets another phone call, this time from her cousin. A man has been found shot to death in one of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is. The truth is, ever since Maud was a girl, death has seemed...
4) Winter grave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Two young kids are missing. A police officer is found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must quickly solve the mystery and find the children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on fire--alive. Even in a culture where ritual killings are common, this brutal assault attracts the attention of both Irene's unit and the Organized Crimes Unit. Anticipating a counterattack, the two units team up to patrol the lavish party of a rival gang, but that doesn't stop another murder from occurring just outside the event...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's May and the snow has hardly melted in Göteborg, Sweden, but things are heating up quickly for Detective Inspector Irene Huss in the Violent Crimes Unit. The body of a teenage girl is found in the woods, naked and horrifically scarred. Then there's the mummified body that is discovered bricked up in a chimney on a demolition site, not to mention the city's ongoing problem with gang violence. With the sudden influx of cases and one detective...
9) Who watcheth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
“These days Scandinavian crime writers are thick on the ground. It’s nice to see that the women can be just as bloodthirsty as the men.” —The New York Times Book Review
He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them: As long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death.
A woman is found dead in a cemetery, strangled and covered...
He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them: As long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death.
A woman is found dead in a cemetery, strangled and covered...
10) After the fire
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old former surgeon who retired in disgrace years ago. He has retreated to a Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude. Until he wakes up one autumn evening to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed boots. All that remains in the morning...
11) I am behind you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four vacationing families wake up and find everything outside their campsite has disappeared into an endless expanse of grass. As they try to come to terms with what has happened, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and secret desires. Past events that each of them has tried to bury rise to the surface and take on terrifying physical forms. Can any of them find a way back to reality?
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Norway's #1 bestselling crime writer comes a suspenseful locked-room mystery, the US debut of a new series, set in an isolated hotel where guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm begin turning up dead.
A train on its way to the northern reaches of Norway careens off the track during a massive blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. The passengers abandon the train for a nearby, centuries-old hotel that is practically empty except for
...14) The black path
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide in a masterpiece of suspense.
15) Drowned
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Swedish countryside during the summer, a woman becomes enamored with her older sister's husband, a charming-yet-violent writer.
Author
Series
Oland quartet volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Delta Trade Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
17) The blood spilt
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) Hostage: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press paperback edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"HOSTAGE: Shortly after a crowded New York-bound Boeing 747 takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found in one of the aircraft's lavatories. The demands are directed at both the Swedish and US governments. Police Superintendent Alex Recht teams up with the energetic -- and often abrasive -- Eden Lundell from the security service's counter-terrorism unit to deal with the hijacking. Fredrika Bergman, who is currently working at the Justice Department,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
533 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Rescuing and raising an abandoned baby girl in the woods, a man enters the child in a singing competition when she develops an astonishingly beautiful voice, a performance that leads to the girl's encounter with another youngster with whom she triggers a horrifying force.