Murderous Scandinavia
Tour Scandinavia, exploring murder and mayhem in each country, through the eyes of their famous literary detectives. |
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 | DENMARK |
| Smilla’s Sense of Snow |
| Peter Hoeg introduces a woman who thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love, and lives in a world of numbers, science and memories, and now she’s uncovered a shattering crime -- a 6-year-old neighbor boy fell to his death from the top of his apartment building, and it wasn’t an accident. |
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 | ICELAND |
| Jar City: a Reykjavik Thriller |
| Arnaldur Indridason’s Detective Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson, is about 50, long divorced, and has two kids in varying degrees of drug addiction -- when a lone septuagenarian is murdered in his apartment, Sveinsson and his partner are called. |
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 | ICELAND |
| Last Rituals: an Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder |
| Thora Gudmundsdottir, a divorcee, mother of two, and partner in a small law firm, is reluctantly drawn into a murder investigation when approached by the Guntlieb family, whose son was killed at the university, in this first of a series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. |
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 | NORWAY |
| Don’t Look Back |
| When a little girl disappears, and then returns home unharmed, Karin Fossum’s Inspector Sejer accepts the distasteful job of cajoling secrets from the tight-lipped townspeople -- when the search party comes upon the nude corpse of a teenager, with no known ties to the little girl, he must uncover the hidden relationships. |
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 | NORWAY |
| The Fourth Man |
| In the course of a routine police raid, Kjell Ola Dahl’s Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in the crossfire -- some weeks later, he runs into her again, but their meeting was no coincidence, and their ensuing affair is no accident. |
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 | NORWAY |
| The Redbreast |
| A recovering alcoholic recently assigned to the Norwegian Security Service, Jo Nesbo’s Inspector Harry Hole begins tracking a vicious neo-Nazi who escaped prosecution on a technicality -- but, what starts as a quest to put him behind bars soon explodes into a race to prevent an assassination. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Borkmann’s Point |
| A veteran of 30 years of police work, Hakan Nesser’s Chief Insp. Van Veeteren believes that in every case there comes a point where simple, decent thinking will solve anything -- cutting short his vacation to help the police chief of a remote town investigate two ax murders, he has an opportunity to test this belief. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Box 21 |
| Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom tell the tale of two Lithuanian girls, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs, sold as sex slaves, and trapped in a Stockholm brothel -- when they’re given an unexpected chance at freedom and revenge, Det. Insp. Ewert Grens’ life is changed as well. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Detective Inspector Huss |
| Stationed in Goteborg, Helene Tursten’s detective is called through the rain-drenched wintery streets to the scene of an apparent suicide -- a wealthy financier connected to the first families of Sweden -- when more murders ensue, she tangles with street gangs, skinheads, and neo-Nazis, to catch the killer. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Echoes from the Dead |
| 20 years after the 6-year-old’s disappearance, a package is mailed to his grandfather containing the mended shoe of a child, prompting him to resume the hunt for the boy, and make a shocking connection between his disappearance and the island’s most notorious murder case, in Johan Theorin’s first mystery. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Faceless Killers |
| Henning Mankell’s Inspector Kurt Wallander, a middle-aged detective with no shortage of personal problems -- broken marriage, troubled daughter, aging father -- is determined to solve the seemingly unprovoked murder of an elderly farm couple, linked to an ugly wave of racist hate gripping the region. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Good Night, My Darling |
| Justine Dalvik appears to be an ordinary yet eccentric Swedish woman living in her childhood home with her pet bird, but below the surface, there is a volcano waiting to erupt -- author Inger Frimansson shows us what happens when a victim decides to take revenge on a world that has made her life a living hell. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Missing |
| Karin Alvtegen introduces us to Sibylla, born into privilege, but living by choice on the chilly streets of Stockholm -- when she spends a night with a businessman, and his body is found the next morning, she becomes a wanted woman. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Roseanna |
| On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden’s beautiful Lake Vattern -- 3 months later, all that Maj Sjowall’s Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of 85 people. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Sun and Shadow |
| Ake Edwardson’s Erik Winter is the youngest chief inspector in Sweden; he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz, and is about to become a father -- but he has his share of troubles too, and a bloody double murder on his doorstep is only the beginning. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| Sun Storm |
| Asa Larsson’s Rebecca Martinsson, an overworked junior member in a Stockholm law firm, comes from Sweden’s far north, where she was involved with a fundamentalist church -- now a church leader has been brutally murdered there, and she receives a call for help from the victim’s sister. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| Crusading journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, and Lisbeth Salander, a 24-year-old, pierced, tattoed genius hacker, join forces to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance, 40 years ago, of a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, in the first of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| The Ice Princess |
| A local-girl-makes-good returns to her tiny resort hometown to learn that her friend was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, and her writer’s instinct is piqued -- she joins forces with Camilla Lackberg’s Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case. |
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 | SWEDEN |
| The Princess of Burundi |
| Kjell Eriksson introduces Uppsala Police Inspector Ann Lindell -- although she’s on maternity leave, when a jogger finds a dead body in the snow, she’s determined to find his killer, but must decide whether to take a huge risk that could result in many more dead bodies, including that of her unborn child. |
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