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Tursten, Helene

Summary: 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUR

Smith, Patrick

Summary: A young woman is brutally murdered on an island near Stockholm, a haunt of wealthy retirees and arty weekenders. Suspicion falls first on a family of Iraqi refugees, initially welcomed into the community but gradually feared and shunned. But then, as the victim's story begins to unfold, suspicion begins inexorably to fall elsewhere. Lena Sundman was rude, dysfunctional, and very young....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Nesser, Håkan

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Erik and his friend Edmund spend their summer vacation in 1962 by a Swedish lake, daydreaming about Ewa, a young teacher who looks like actress Kim Novak. When Ewa's fiance is found dead, Erik's brother is initially the prime suspect. Twenty-five years later, when Erik happens to come across an article about unsolved crimes, he is overwhelmed by memories of that summer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NES

Larsson, Asa

Summary: It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Oak 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAR

Persson, Leif G. W.

Summary: "A galvanizing new thriller from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author--a stand-alone novel that finds legendary Swedish homicide detective Lars Martin Johansson racing against time to solve one final murder. In the National Criminal Investigation Department he was known as "the man who sees around corners." Now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Persson 2017

Ahnhem, Stefan

Summary: " Two gruesome murders have shocked the Swedish town of Helsingborg. The first victim, a thug who liked using his fists, died with his hands sawn off. His sidekick, a fan of steel-capped boots, was crushed to death feet-first. Both men were bullies in the same class at school. Is someone serving justice after thirty years? The killer leaves no trace behind. But for lead investigator Fabian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHN

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