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1) The drowning
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When crime writer Erica Falck, who helped novelist Christian develop his talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but also the young author's mysterious past. Then, one of Christian's closest friends goes missing... --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Erica Falck returns to her tiny Swedish hometown after the funeral of her parents to find her childhood friend, Alex, frozen to death in her bathtub with her wrists slashed. With police detective Patrik Hedstrom, she tries to figure out what could have caused Alex to commit suicide. But someone is willing to do anything to protect the secret.
5) Firewall
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 8
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Inspector Kurt Wallander begins to suspect a connection between a series of crimes--the murder of a taxi driver by two teenage girls, the escape of one of the culprits, a power blackout, and a grisly discovery at the malfunctioning power station.
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mystery volume 5
Publisher
Mantle
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is back. A young girl's body is found in the woods in Sweden, triggering an investigation into a mysterious religious sect called the Pure Life.
Author
Series
Evert Bäckström novel volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Crime
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The first in a trilogy of novels centered around the investigations of a Swedish police officer, Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström, of the National Murder Squad.
Author
Series
Sandhamn murders volume 10
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On leave after her last case took a dark turn, Nora hopes to find redemption in the investigation of a woman's skeletal remains excavated on an uninhabited island in Sandhamn's archipelago.
9) The preacher
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The discovery of two murder victims who were killed twenty years earlier is complicated by the body of a third, recent victim at the same location, a case that compels detective Patrik Hedstrom to investigate a feuding clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman volume 3
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows Fredrika Bergman's investigation into a missing student's murder, a case that is further complicated by additional killings and clues that lead to Fredrika's lover.
11) The hidden child
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover an old Nazi medal amongst her late mother's belongings. Inspired to dig deep into her past, she visits a retired history teacher for answers. Two days later he's dead. Detective Patrik Hedstrom is on paternity leave. But his wife's enquiries appear to have set off a chain of murders and he's finding it hard to keep out of the investigation. A terrible secret from the darkest days of World War II is coming...
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 11
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When Inspector Kurt Wallander discovers a shallow grave in the garden of his new house, he investigates the truth about the residence and its previous owner.
13) Buried angels
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Easter 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind--including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child and are looking to make a fresh start. But within days their house is the target of an arson attack. Detective Patrik Hedstrom takes on the investigation. --Provided by...
14) Cell 8
Author
Publisher
Silver Oak
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
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....
15) The stranger
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom volume 4
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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.
16) Winter grave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thrilling mystery set in rural Sweden, Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must solve a murder case and find two missing children before the small town takes matters into their own hands. When a little girl disappears a few weeks before Christmas, suspicion falls on the last person she was seen with: the mentally disabled teenage boy who gave her a ride home after school. Complicating the matter is the fact that detectives can hardly get a...
17) The lost boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
18) One step behind
Author
Series
Kurt Wallander mystery volume 7
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues, someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime, also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he can't begin to imagine how.
Author
Series
High coast volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
While investigating the disappearance of a man reported missing by his wife, police officer Eira Sjödin, knowing the pain of loss, loses herself in an affair with her boss until he, too, disappears, leaving her at the mercy of an elusive perpetrator--and a love she can no longer deny.
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow as if someone has been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman...
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