Neil Smith
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Language
English
Description
Companies make headline news all the time for decisions that make many of us scratch our heads in wonder, even companies that are smart and successful. Here, Neil Smith, with more than 20 years of experience leading large-scale performance improvements, reveals the hidden barriers that cause excellent companies to do dumb things, and smart people within companies to act in dumb ways. Drawing on his experience working with and helping transform top...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A corporate manifesto for overcoming obstacles to professional success identifies the reasons why companies often make questionable decisions, outlining 12 fast-track principles of business transformation that discuss the involvement of CEOs, personal accountability and increasing revenue instead of cutting costs.
3) Boo: a novel
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One minute, Oliver "Boo" Dalrymple is next to his locker at school reciting the periodic table from heart; the next he finds himself in "Town, " an afterlife exclusively for thirteen year-olds. As Boo works to acclimate himself to his new home, another boy from his hometown--Johnny--appears, seemingly a victim of the same school shooter. A social outcast back in America, Boo quickly finds the friendship and joy that he never knew in life, but as...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 11
Language
English
Description
Harry Hole is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force by a serial murderer who has been targeting Tinder daters using methods reminiscent of a nemesis from Harry's past.
5) Knife
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 12
Language
English
Description
Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he has ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison -- free, and Harry is certain,...
6) The sandman
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Late one night, outside Stockholm, an emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman....
7) Stalker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of a young woman in her home, clearly unaware that she's being watched. Soon after the tape is recieved, the woman's body is found horrifically mutilated. With the arrival of the next, similar video, the police understand that the killer is toying with them, warning of a new victim, knowing there's nothing they can do. Detective Margot Silverman is put in charge of the investigation, and soon asks...
8) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
He calls himself Ulf -- as good a name as any, he thinks -- and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed, which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in Kåsund, on Norway's far northeastern border, he sees a flat,...
9) Lazarus
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The latest installment in the internationally best-selling Joona Linna series sees the Swedish detective on the trail of the worst serial killer he's seen yet. Across the continent, someone is brutally murdering Europe's worst criminals. Who can object to taking out rapists, arsonists, human traffickers? But when two of the victims have a direct connection to detective Joona Linna, it's clear to him that somebody's trying to send him a message. His...
Author
Series
Blood on snow volume 1
Language
English
Description
Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish prime minister. The foreign minister has been brutally murdered. There's a chance more political figures could be targeted. The police need Linna to find the killer and neutralize the threat, so he's granted a temporary release from prison. But when another murder occurs,...
12) The golden cage
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company, Faye leaves school to support him, waitressing by day and working as his strategist by night. With the business soaring, Faye and Jack have a baby, and Faye finds herself at home, caring for their daughter, wealthier than she ever imagined,...
13) The night house
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, 14-year-old Richard Elauved, when he is suspected in the disappearances of two classmates, must prove his innocence and preserve his sanity as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing the town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"David Lindholm is found naked on his bed with bullets through his head and stomach. All the homicidal evidence points in the direction of his wife Julia. Julia, who is suffering from shock and trauma, rambles on about a woman who she claims entered the house, killed her husband, and ran off with her son. When journalist Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the case, she must work against the clock to clear Julia's name and find the missing child, before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Squre Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
530 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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 is a third child 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 a terrifying story of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washiongton Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the newest thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author Liza Marklund, dubbed the "Queen of Scandinavian Crime Fiction, " Annika Bengtzon tracks an unknown adversary through a web of lies and violence--bringing her face-to-face with a terrifying enemy. Annika Bengtzon is back at Kvällspressen's Stockholm offices after three years as the newspaper's Washington, DC correspondent. One afternoon, a young woman is found dead behind a nursery...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stockholm journalist Annika Bengtzon turns independent reporter, mostly pursuing terrorism stories. While she's investigating in the northern town of Lulea, a fellow journalist and source dies in a hit-and-run accident, which turns out to be the first in a series of murders. Annika traces these murders to a deadly act of sabotage on a Swedish military base in 1969, and begins to suspect that the man behind the present-day slayings and the army attack--known...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A passionate film buff, our hero's life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and movie in his treasured small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline night and day to find out why he is the recipient of the...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U. S. edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. He works at a bakery counter, and in his free time organizes (and reorganizes) his record collection. He's not up to much the day his old school friend Magnus invites him to a circus, and he's certainly not expecting the simple outing to change everything in his life. But while participating in a magic trick Magnus vanishes--completely. Struggling to piece together the events that...