Best Scandinavian Crime Novels 2019 - April 2024

The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

The sixth Lisbeth Salander story--the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide.Lisbeth Salander--the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo--has disappeared. She's sold her apartment in Stockholm. She's gone silent electronically. She's told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at long last she's got her primal enemy, her twin sister, Camilla, squarely in her sights. Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who lived and died on the streets in Stockholm--a man who does not exist in any ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451494342
• ASIN: 0451494342
• ISBN: 0451494342
• Manufacturer: Knopf

The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered—one girl lived.No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right—but did she see the killer?Best Mystery-Thriller eBook of the Year — Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018Winner Best Thriller — National Indie Excellence Awards 2018Winner Best Thriller — Silver Falchion Award 2018Finalist eBook Fiction — Indie Book Awards 2018Silver Medal Suspense — Reader’s Favorite Book Awards 2018Voted Most Loved Cover — NetGall... [Read More]

• ASIN: B076FNQWTF
• ASIN: B076FNQWTF
• Manufacturer: Greyson Media

Dead End Girl: A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller (Violet Darger FBI Thriller Book 1)

Her body is broken. Wrapped in plastic. Dumped on the side of the road. She is the first. There will be more.The serial killer thriller that "refuses to let go until you've read the last sentence."The most recent body was discovered in the grease dumpster behind a Burger King. Dismembered. Shoved into two garbage bags and lowered into the murky oil.Now rookie agent Violet Darger gets the most important assignment of her career. She travels to the Midwest to face a killer unlike anything she's seen. Aggressive. Territorial. Deranged and driven.Another mutilated corpse was found next to a roller... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06Y2H1KM9
• ASIN: B06Y2H1KM9
• Manufacturer: Smarmy Press

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

This beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov - an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity. In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for "tattooist"), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrifi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07BYXSLF4
• ASIN: B07BYXSLF4
• Manufacturer: HarperAudio

Cold Lake (David Wolf Book 5)

The truth emerges, one piece at a time. David Wolf and his deputies are back, facing the most disturbing case of their lives—one Wolf’s own father could not solve years ago. And someone will want it kept that way.A fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado. When Sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene, they quickly find more surprises lurk below. Their grim discoveries reopen a cold case Wolf’s father worked twenty-two years ago, and Wolf must try to succeed where his father failed before him. Wolf has the a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00PTR6YUY
• ASIN: B00PTR6YUY
• Manufacturer: Cross Atlantic Publishing

The Wolf and the Watchman: A Novel

“It’s early to be pegging the year’s best books, but The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag’s stunning debut, is sure to be one of them.” —The Washington Post “What's better than an ornate period piece with style to spare? One that includes a murder mystery. Oh, and boy is it a riveting mystery....A bit of Patrick Süskind’s Perfume and a bit of Sherlock Holmes, this wolf has some bite to it.” —NPR “Reads like a season of ‘True Detective’...anchored by a powerful sense of place and a memorable cast of characters....You won’t soon forget it.” —USA TODAY N... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GNT9TWM
• ASIN: B07GNT9TWM
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Stalker (Joona Linna, Book 5) (English and Swedish Edition)

You thought you were alone. Think again.The groundbreaking fifth thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.CLOSE THE CURTAINSA film arrives at Stockholm’s National Crime Investigation Department showing a woman in her own home, plainly unaware she is being watched. The police don’t take it seriously … until she is found murdered.LOCK THE DOORWhen the next video arrives, Detective Margot Silverman frantically attempts to identify the victim. But it’s already too late. Because at the time the video was sent, the k... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0007467850
• ASIN: 0007467850
• ISBN: 0007467850
• Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Forgotten Dead: A dark, twisted, unputdownable thriller

An unputdownable thriller set in the dark underbelly of Europe, perfect for fans of I AM PILGRIM.Into the darkness they fall…Tarifa, Spain. A man’s body washes up on the beach. No-one seems to care.Patrick Cornwall is a highly acclaimed investigative journalist. His latest project: to uncover the plight of migrants trying to start new lives in Europe, and expose the corruption that runs to the highest levels of society.Patrick’s wife, Ally, is used to Patrick being out of contact. But she’s just discovered she’s pregnant, and she must track him down. Unable to reach him and starting ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06W9NHNXQ
• ASIN: B06W9NHNXQ
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Little Darlings

• ASIN: 0008293678
• ASIN: 0008293678
• ISBN: 0008293678
• Manufacturer: HQ

[By Alexander McCall Smith] The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel Large Print [2019] [Paperback] New Launch Best selling book in |Lawyers & Criminals Humor|

• ASIN: B07QK4L4DC
• ASIN: B07QK4L4DC

Love You Gone: A Gripping Psychological Crime Novel with an Incredible Twist (Paperback)

'I couldn't put it down... jaw dropping... fantastic... If you're a fan of Gone Girl, you're seriously going to enjoy this!' Netgalley reviewer, 5 stars 'Hello? Police? My husband and our children... they're gone.' When

• UPC: 518802211

Hiding in the Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

When Faith Parker awakens from a coma, she has no memory of her life--or of her friend Dinah, who has vanished without a trace. Death is stalking both women and one of them will not

• UPC: 25652341
• Rating: 4.167

Out of the Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

Sheriff Miranda Knight is reunited with FBI profiler Noah Bishop when her small town of Gladstone, Tennessee is torn apart by the kidnapping, torture, and murder of several teenagers, and Miranda is forced to use

• UPC: 815005
• Rating: 3.571

Waterbury : A Crime Novel

In this gripping psychological thriller, a holiday home invasion becomes a dangerous battle of wills when an artistic family is pitted against a pair of career burglars. From the international bestseller Katia Lief whose work

• UPC: 19412166

Stealing Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

While recovering from her last traumatic attempt to help the police catch a killer, psychic Cassie Neill's mind is filled with the thoughts of a pscyhopath, but as she struggles to place a name or

• UPC: 789555
• Rating: 4.0

The Department of Sensitive Crimes : A Detective Varg Novel

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.

• UPC: 757130824
• Rating: 3.0

Chill of Fear : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

In the bestselling second installment of Hooper's Fear trilogy, FBI agent Quentin Hayes has been haunted by an unsolved murder that took place at a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now he returns to the

• UPC: 4327527
• Rating: 4.75

Hunting Fear : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

Called in on what appear to be routine kidnappings, FBI agent Noah Bishop and his elite Special Crimes Unit soon realize that their adversary is brilliant, ruthless, deadly--and determined to eliminate a psychic member of

• UPC: 3164475
• Rating: 4.273

Blood Dreams : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

In this first novel of an all-new thrill-ology, "New York Times"-bestselling author Hooper takes readers on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer even Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit may not be able

• UPC: 10194840
• Rating: 3.222

Blood Sins : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

A "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers once again with this chilling novel in which the Special Crimes Unit sends a Haven operative undercover to catch a charismatic killer, who promises his victims heaven in exchange

• UPC: 11019822
• Rating: 3.2