Marlaine Delargy
Author
Series
Äldre dam volume 1
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...
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...
3) Snowdrift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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...
4) 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...
5) Sun storm
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The brutal murder of a female priest at the height of the Swedish midsummer brings attorney Rebecka Martinsson face to face with a nightmare as she is drawn into the investigation and into the heart of a lethal mystery.
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of travelers who are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest.
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspector Fredericka Bergman investigates the kidnapping and murder of a child who had been separated from her mother on a crowded train on a rainy Swedish summer day, a case that points to the work of a brilliant and ruthless killer.
9) Harbor
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
500 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man's six-year-old daughter vanishes. One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears -- either into...
10) The beige man
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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...
11) The hidden child
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages ; 24 cm.
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
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
398 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to let Milena bring her boyfriend Jacob on their annual hiking trip, Anna and Henrik find their hike going terrifyingly wrong when all three of them realize that taking Jacob was a decision that could change their lives forever.
Anna, Henrik and Milena's annual hiking trip is just around the corner. This year, however, Anna and Henrik have a hard time saying no when Milena asks if her boyfriend, Jacob, can tag along. The hike soon spirals...
13) I am behind you
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compelling, eerie new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Let the Right One In. Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, noflowers, no birds. And...
14) Who watcheth
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 in plastic. A thorough examination of the corpse reveals that the killer left behind no evidence. But just a few days before her death, the victim received a flower, an unintelligible note, and a photograph of herself. Detective...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With gang violence escaling in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force? In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, 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,...
16) Hostage: a novel
Author
Series
Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 4
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
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Delta Trade Paperback ed.
Physical Desc
438 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joakim Westin, a grieving widower whose young daughter begins hearing ghostly voices, must solve a puzzle that includes a walled-in room and his community's mysterious glowing lighthouse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's May and the snow has hardly melted in Goteborg, 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 on going problem with gang violence. With the sudden influx of cases and one detective...
19) The other woman
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Drowned, a passionate psychological drama where questions of power and sexuality are brought to a head. She works at Norrkoping Hospital, at the very bottom of the hierarchy: in the cafeteria, below the doctors, the nurses, and the nursing assistants. But she dreams of one day becoming a writer, of moving away and reinventing herself. Carl Malmberg, an older, married doctor at the hospital, catches her eye. She begins an intense...
20) Fear not
Author
Series
Vik and Stubo series volume 4
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
398 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A drug addict dead in a basement, a young asylum seeker floating in the harbour, a high profile female bishop stabbed to death in the street. What is the connection? During a snowy Christmas season in Norway, criminal psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only her husband and herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths. Her husband, detective Yngvar Stubo, has been dispatched...