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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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  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 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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  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 1

  Faceless Killers

  by Henning Mankell

  First in the Kurt Wallander series. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign , leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the... (more)
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  Millennium Trilogy

  Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Bundle

  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The Girl Who Played with Fire / The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

  by Stieg Larsson

  All across America, readers are talking about Stieg Larsson’s best-selling novels, set in Sweden and featuring Lisbeth Salander—“one of the most original and memorable heroines to surface in a recent thriller” (The New York Times). The trilogy is an international sensation that will grab you and keep you “reading with eyes wide open” (San Francisco Chronicle) . “<It> is intricately plotted,... (more)
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  The Man from Beijing

  by Henning Mankell

  The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries now gives us an electrifying stand-alone thriller that takes off into a sweeping international drama. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims. The... (more)
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  Erica Falck and Patrik Hedstrom: Book 1

  The Ice Princess

  by Camilla Läckberg

  For the first time in English, the psychological thriller debut of No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems, at first, that she has taken her own... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 2

  The Dogs of Riga

  by Henning Mankell

  Second in the Kurt Wallander series.
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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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  Pippi Longstocking: Book 1

  Pippi Longstocking

  by Astrid Lindgren

  Pippi Longstocking is the girl that every child wants to be. Mischief and hilarious situations seem to follow Pippi wherever she goes. She lives all alone, is strong and rich, and very fun and funny. She carries out all her outrageous schemes and games with her new friends, Tommy and Annika. A sweet, hilarious, amazing, completely unbelievable story! Great fun!
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  The Royal Diaries

  Kristina

  The Girl King, Sweden, 1638

  by Carolyn Meyer

  Once upon a time the discovering that their newborn infant was, in fact, female and not male as first thought, Queen Marie Eleonore wailed inconsolably and King Gustavus Adolphus declared, nevertheless, that the child be raised as a prince. At age six, upon the death of her father, the child Kristina, was proclaimed King of Sweden, with regents assigned to council until she assumes the throne at age eighteen. And... (more)
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  Kurt Wallander: Book 4

  The Man Who Smiled

  by Henning Mankell

  Dalgliesh. The Man Who Smiled begins with Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of his father winds up dead himself, shot three times. Ann-Britt Höglund, the department's first female detective, proves to be his best ally... (more)
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  Before the Frost (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

  by Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg

  In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father--the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood... (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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  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 (Kurt Wallander Mysteries, No. 8)

  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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  Astrid & Veronika

  by Linda Olsson

  With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, an older, reclusive neighbor who slowly becomes a... (more)
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  Joona Linna: Book 1

  The Hypnotist

  by Lars Kepler

  “Lars Kepler enthralls readers with The Hypnotist, just like Stieg Larsson did with the Millennium-series.” Norrköpings Tidningar, Sweden "The Hypnotist is a rare beast: A Swedish thriller on a high international level with a smart, effective and surprising plot. The narrative has a skilful, refined, pulsating drive and the writing is sharp, convincing and multilayered." Kristianstadsbladet “One of the best – if... (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.