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  The Millennium Trilogy: Book 2

  The Girl Who Played with Fire

  by Stieg Larsson

  Already, a nimbus of legend surrounds the story: In late 2004, Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson delivered to his publisher three finished manuscripts -- the opening salvos in a rumored 10-part suspense narrative. Like a latter-day Sjöwall-Wahlöö, the husband-and-wife detective novelists whose Martin Beck decology (1965-75) engaged Olof Palme-era political unrest, Larsson sought to explore and explode the moral... (more)
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  The Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  by Stieg Larsson

  A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold...
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  Let the Right One in

  by John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival! 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... (more)
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  The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

  by Alan Blair, Maj Sjowall, Per Wahlo?o?

  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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  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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  Paradise

  by Liza Marklund

  A hurricane sweeps across Sweden leaving chaos in its wake. Two men lie dead in Stockholm, shot in the head at point-blank range. A young woman runs for her life, finding refuge in Paradise, a foundation dedicated to those whose lives are in danger. Newspaper sub-editor Annika Bengtzon is trying to piece her life back together following the violent death of her fiancé, and covering the story of Paradise is just... (more)
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  Doctor Glas: A Novel

  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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  The Abominable Man (Martin Beck Mysteries)

  by Maj Sjowall, Per Wahlo?o?

  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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  Handling the Undead

  by John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up...What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home.
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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 mankind 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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  von Sydowmordens gåta

  by Anders Frigell

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  Snabba Cash

  by Jens Lapidus

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  Old Snow : Poems

  by Pei-tao

  Along The Way Anniversery April At This Moment A Bach Concert The Bell Black Box Celebrating The Festival The Collection Coming Home At Night Composition Discovery The Double-sided Mirror The East's Imagination An Evening Scene The Exhibition For Only A Second Frostfall Gains He Opens Wide A Third Eye 'i Cannot See...' In Tune The Letter A Local Accent 'more... (more)
• Kärlekens innersta rum: RomanBjorn Ranelid

  

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  Kärlekens innersta rum: Roman

  by Bjo?rn Ranelid

  Text: Swedish
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  Good Night, My Darling

  by Inger Frimansson

  Good Night, My Darling has been named ForeWord Magazine's BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007 for Translations. Translated from the original Swedish, Good Night My Darling is a mystery / thriller about hatred and revenge. Justine is a wealthy woman in her forties, living alone in a big house full of troubled memories of a tortured childhood. Now the memories come back to haunt Justine, but she is prepared. It is time for... (more)