Rachel Willson-Broyles
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Centenarian Allan Karlsson and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In the wake their mother's death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, over two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And then there is Benjamin, always the family's nerve center, perpetually on the look-out for triggers and trap doors in a volatile...
Author
Series
Halland volume 1
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have raped a woman. I'm going to do it again, he says. Then the call cuts off. By the time policeman Sven Jörgensson reaches the victim, she's taking her last breath. For Sven and his son Vidar, this will prove a decisive moment. On the same night, Sweden plunges into a state of shock after the murder of the prime minister. Could there possibly be a connection? Two more...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangers —-a former female priest, recently fired from her church; the ruined grandson of an ex-millionaire working as a receptionist; and Killer-for-hire Anders, a murderer newly released from prison —-accidently collide with darkly hilarious results. Seeing a lucrative opportunity in Anders, the unlikely trio form an unusual new business. --Publisher
6) The tunnel
Author
Series
Danny Katz thriller volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Once a promising military intelligence officer, Danny Katz now uses his considerable gifts as a linguist and computer hacker in his work as a private investigator. He was once a high-functioning heroin addict, but his habit finally tripped him up and nowhe is self-employed, his relationship with his ex-wife and two daughters deeply troubled. In short, Katz is used to his fair share of suffering. But when his former drug dealer, Ramón, disappears...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Quicksand, a gripping legal thriller that follows one woman's conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction. I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer's dream, said Sophia Weber's old professor. Freeing an innocent man. Thirteen years ago, a fifteen-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one...
Author
Series
Fabian Risk volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The police chase a speeding car through the streets of Helsingborg. When they reach the bridge, the driver keeps going straight into the cold, dark waters of the Öresund strait. The body recovered from the wreck is that of Peter Brise, one of the city's richest tech entrepreneurs. Fabian Risk and his team are confident this is suicide. Young, rich, successful--Brise just didn't know how to ask for help. But then the autopsy reveals something unexpected....
9) Quicksand
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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 jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door who was popular and excelled at school, become the most...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to...