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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.
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 10
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"A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
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Detective Varg novels volume 3
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"Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention Ulf's struggle to contain his feelings for his colleague Anna...
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Inspector Van Veeteren volume 2
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A track star who was convicted for killing two of his ex-lovers and consistently proclaimed his innocence is killed on the day of his return to society. This latest murder is more than a little perplexing and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is determined to discover the truth, even if it means taking the law into his own hands.
46) The spider
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"Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received an ominous postcard describing a gun and nine white bullets--one of which was intended for her partner, Detective Joona Linna. The sender alleged that Saga was the only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded. Until now. A sack with a decomposing body has been found hanging from a tree in the forest. A milky white bullet casing turns up at the scene. When the body count begins...
47) Three minutes
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"Presumed dead by the Stockholm police -- with a couple of notable exceptions, including homicide detective Ewert Grens -- master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in South America. Hoffmann stays in touch with his former police handler, Erik Wilson, but unfortunately there is no money to be had in maintaining his unofficial...
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Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 7
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When a killer linked to a hit-and-run and a possible second murder proves increasingly unstable, a personally affected Van Veeteren comes out of retirement to face the greatest trial of his career.
In the middle of a damp, dark night a young man is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriend's house. The driver, drunk, leaves the body by the side of the road, and tries to put the murder out of his mind-- until a blackmail note arrives, setting into...
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Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish prime minister. The foreign minister has been brutally murdered. There's a chance more political figures could be targeted. The police need Linna to find the killer and neutralize the threat, so he's granted a temporary release from prison. But when another murder occurs,...
50) Czarownica
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The disappearance of the four year old Linnai from the farm near Fjällbacki resembles a tragic event from thirty years ago. From the same place a smll girl died, whose body was soon found in a nearby lake. Two thirteen year olds confessed to the murder, then they canceled it, but th court found them guilty, although they were not put in prison as juveniles. One of them then lived quietly in Fjällbacki. The second came back years later as the famous...
55) Buried angels
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Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 8
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"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. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE FUTURE Detective Patrik Hedstrom takes on the investigation,...
56) Box 21
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Ewert Grens thrillers volume 2
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Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedom?
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Gdy w spokojnym miasteczku Fjällbaka na zachodnim wybrzeżu Szwecji zostaje znaleziona martwa Alexandra Wijkner, wszystko wskazuje na to, że popełniła samobójstwo. Matka kobiety ma jednak wątpliwości i prosi przyjaciółkę córki z dzieciństwa, pisarkę Erikę Falck żeby przyjrzała się tej tragedii. Erika, która powróciła w rodzinne strony by poukładać własne sprawy, wspólnie z Patrikiem Hedströmem, kolegą z młodzieńczych lat,...
58) Buried in secret
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Sandhamn murders volume 10
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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.
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Malin Fors novels volume 3
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"Autumn rains are pouring down on the Swedish countryside, but it's the discovery of a brutally stabbed body floating facedown in the moat of Skogså Castle that chills one town to the bone. Jerry Petersson, the castle's new owner and a notoriously ruthless lawyer and entrepreneur, is now, shall we say, permanently out of business. Meanwhile, Malin Fors, the brilliant but flawed star of the local police force, is already struggling to keep her life...