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  Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  by Stieg Larsson

  The Industrialist Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger corporation, is tormented by the loss of his niece decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family has committed murder.The Journalist Mikael Blomkvist delves deep into the Vangers' past to uncover the truth behind the unsolved mystery. But someone else wants the past to remain a secret and will go to any lengths... (more)
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  Asesinos Sin Rostro

  by Henning Mankell

  En este historico primer encuentro con sus lectores, el inspector Wallander debe resolver un caso casi tan complicado como su vida personal. Mientras procura desenmascarar a los despiadados asesinos de una anciana que ha muerto con la palabra ""extranjero"" en la boca antes de que los prejuicios raciales latentes en la comunidad desaten una ola de violencia vengadora, Wallander debe enfrentar el abandono de su... (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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  Kurt Wallander: Book 6

  The Fifth Woman

  by Henning Mankell

  Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.
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  La Piramide (Coleccion Andanzas)

  by Henning Mankell

  Todo el mundo tiene un pasado. Wallander, como se nos explica en este último libro de la serie, se remonta a veinte años atrás, cuando ni siquiera había entrado en Homicidios y era un joven agente despierto, lleno de ambiciones profesionales y con una vida privada que, ya entonces, hacía agua por todas partes. Los cinco relatos incluidos en La pirámide abarcan desde 1969 a 1989, justo antes del comienzo de la... (more)
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  El hombre sonriente/ (Kurt Wallander Mysteries (Paperback))

  by Henning Mankell

  Torstensson, a lawyer, drives his car along a lonely road. It is the dead of night and he does not stop checking his rearview mirror to see if he is being followed. Suddenly, before him, he sees a chair placed on the asphalt and a human-sized doll sitting on it. Torstensson violently brakes and gets out of his car terrified in order to take a closer look at the ghostly apparition. That is the last thing that he... (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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  Kurt Wallander: Book 5

  Sidetracked

  by Henning Mankell

  Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series. In the award-winning Sidetracked , Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former Minister of Justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 8

  Firewall

  by Henning Mankell

  Seventh in the Kurt Wallander series. A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 3

  The White Lioness

  by Henning Mankell

  Third in the Kurt Wallander series. The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous. The search for the... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 7

  One Step Behind

  by Henning Mankell

  Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series. On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime–also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he... (more)
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  Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Book 1

  My Father Bleeds History

  by Art Spiegelman

  A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself. Part I of a two volume series.
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  Maus: A Survivor's Tale: Book 2

  And Here My Troubles Began

  by Art Spiegelman

  MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
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  Pisando Los Talones / One Step Behind

  by Henning Mankell

  La noche de San Juan, alguien, agazapado tras un matorral, contempla como se divierten unos jovenes... Por esas mismas fechas, ajeno al drama que se fragua, el inspector Kurt Wallander regresa de sus vacaciones, y en agosto, ya metido en la rutina, empieza a acusar un extraño agotamiento que esta a punto de costarle la vida en un accidente de trafico. Cuando acude al medico, se lleva un buen susto al saber el... (more)
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  El Chino (Spanish Edition)

  by Henning Mankell

  Cómo síntesis:En un pueblito sueco en 2006, un fotógrafo descubre brutalmente asesinadas a diecinueve personas. La policia sospecha que es obra de un perturbado; pero la jueza Birgitta Roslin, que se interesa por el caso en cuanto sabe que entre las victimas figura la familia adoptiva de su madre, sostiene otra teoría. Ignora que todo se remonta a una historia del año 1860, cuando miles de chinos fueron... (more)
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  El hombre inquieto (Spanish Edition)

  by Henning Mankell

  La vida del inspector Kurt Wallander ha cambiado ligeramente: no solo ha hecho realidad su sueno de tener una casa en el campo, sino que, ademas, su hija Linda lo ha convertido en abuelo. Sin embargo, su tranquilidad se ve perturbada poco despues, un dia de invierno de 2008, cuando el suegro de Linda, un oficial de alto rango de la Marina sueca llamado HÃ¥kan von Enke, desaparece en un bosque cerca de Estocolmo.... (more)
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  Los Perros de Riga (Andanzas)

  by Henning Mankell

  Una fría mañana de febrero llega un bote salvavidas a la costa sueca arrastrado por la corriente. Dentro encuentran los cadáveres de dos hombres que, como confirma el inspector Wallander, han sido asesinados hace días. Aquejado de estrés y de intensos dolores de pecho, con remordimientos por su anciano padre y sin haber encajado bien la separación de su mujer, Kurt Wallander, una vez abierta la investigación, debe... (more)
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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 Trilogy by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009.