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  Millennium Trilogy: Book 2

  The Girl Who Played with Fire

  by Stieg Larsson

  The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second novel in the best-selling "Millennium series" by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009.The book features many of the characters that appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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  Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  by Stieg Larsson

  Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel, with an unpredictable occurences, intriguing scenes, and giant twists to the plot in many places. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to... (more)
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  Let the Right One In

  by John Ajvide Lindqvist

  It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last---revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next... (more)
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  Handling the Undead

  by John Ajvide Lindqvist

  A butterfly beats its wings somewhere in the universe - and an electrical field lowers itself over Stockholm, and causes a piercing headache in everyone as well as making it impossible to turn off any electrical appliances or machines. When the field lifts, something has changed - the recently deceased have come back to life... - and they want to come home.
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  Martin Beck: Book 4

  The Laughing Policeman

  by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö

  With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and "must reading for anyone who claims to be <a student> of the best detective fiction" ( Saturday Review ).
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  Vicky Bliss Mysteries: Book 3

  Silhouette In Scarlet

  by Elizabeth Peters

  One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic "message" consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss -- as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously inquisitive, Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her former lover, the daring jewel thief John Smythe. So she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe's lead in the hope of finding a... (more)
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  Ewert Grens: Book 5

  Three Seconds

  by Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström

  Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, THREE SECONDS is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström-heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. Piet Hoffman, a top secret operative for the Swedish police, is about to embark on his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating... (more)
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  Doctor Glas

  by Hjalmar Söderberg

  Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual... (more)
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  Stockholm Noir: Book 1

  Snabba Cash

  by Jens Lapidus

  The Stockholm Noir Trilogy I Stockholm s underworld is the gutter where all of Swedish society s waste ends up: drug addicts, prostitutes, gangsters, thieves, gangs... Each focused on defending its territory and turning a profit at any cost, they play freely throughout the pages of a cutting novel where police make their appearance only in legal documents. Jean Lapidus is the brilliant young writer behind a page... (more)
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  Missing

  by Karin Alvtegen

  In The Grand Hotel, a homeless woman charms a businessman into paying for dinner and a room. When his dead body is discovered the following morning she becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, Sybilla, having left her comfortable middle class upbringing for the anonymity of the streets, becomes the most wanted person in Sweden ...Missing is a totally compelling read and a... (more)
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  The Wheel of Time: Book 12

  The Gathering Storm

  by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

  Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And man kind is not ready. The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor---his wife, Harriet McDougal---to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that... (more)
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  Millennium Trilogy: Book 3

  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

  by Stieg Larsson

  In the third volume in the explosive trilogy that has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed while a killer lurks next door.
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  Martin Beck: Book 7

  Abominable Man

  by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö

  The striking seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck facing one of the greatest challenges in his professional career. The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strong-arm police work and shear brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb... (more)
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  Stockholm Natt & Dag

  by Stadsmissionen

  Stockholms Stadsmission har frågat runt 300 stockholmare om såväl smultronställen som platser att undvika i Stockholm med omnejd. I en annorlunda guidebok möts politiker, artister, företagsledare, snickare, författare, snabbköpskassörskor och journalister - såväl inflyttade som infödda stockholmsbor. Gemensamt är önskan att bidra till att göra Stockholm till en mänskligare stad.– I boken Stockholm Natt... (more)
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  Människor helt utan betydelse

  by Johan Kling

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  Här ligger jag och blöder

  by Jenny Jägerfeld

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  [The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest] (hardcover) (May 25, 2010) by stieg larsson

  by Reg Keeland (Translator) Stieg Larsson (Author)

  Hardcover: 576 pagesPublisher: Knopf; First American Edition edition (May 25, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 030726999XISBN-13: 978-0307269997Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.5 inches
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  Glastunneln

  by Maria Gripe

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  Die Therapeutin

  by Camilla Grebe

  Es hätte ein Idyll sein können ... Alles nur Einbildung oder echte Bedrohung? Siri Bergmann arbeitet als Psychotherapeutin in einer kleinen Gemeinschaftspraxis mitten in Stockholm. Sie ist den Umgang mit seelischen Abgründen und schmerzhaften Geheimnissen gewohnt. Es ist ihr täglich Brot. Doch im Moment hat sie vor allem mit sich selbst zu kämpfen. Seit ihr Mann bei einem Tauchgang vor einem Jahr tödlich... (more)
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  Battered Earth

  by D. Hilleren

  In the new decade, the world gathers in Stockholm for a controversial climate forum. The stakes are high, as violent and unpredictable storms increasingly plague the earth and sea levels encroach on coastal shorelines. Nicole Hunter, head of the richly endowed Everson Foundation, leads the charge to invest in promising research that will hopefully impede environmental devastation. But her contentious stance has... (more)