Best Scandinavian Crime Novels - April 2024

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

Cold Lake (David Wolf Book 5)

The truth emerges, one piece at a time.When a fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado, sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene. It doesn't take long to realize 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 advantage on his dad, though, because he has bodies. Lots of them. Amid sweeping political changes that have his department and the entire county on edge, Wolf and ... [Read More]

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

The Scarred Woman (A Department Q Novel)

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet—perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson.   Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved murder. In a Copenhagen park the body of an elderly woman is discovered. The case bears a striking resemblance to another unsolved homicide investigation from over a decade ago, but the connection b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525954953
• ASIN: 0525954953
• ISBN: 0525954953
• Manufacturer: Dutton

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series Book 1)

• ASIN: B0015DROBO
• ASIN: B0015DROBO
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series (Millennium Series Book 5)

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Lisbeth Salander is back with a vengeance. The series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo continues as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and to take revenge. Lisbeth Salander—obstinate outsider, volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—seizes on a chance to unearth her mysterious past once and for all. And she will let nothing stop her—not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who pa... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MR8VA0P
• ASIN: B01MR8VA0P
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Norwegian by Night

Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner An ECONOMIST TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER OF THE YEARA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“A soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wilderness and you just might make peace with your god, your ghosts, and yourself.” — Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love StorySheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008LQ1B1W
• ASIN: B008LQ1B1W
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Macbeth: William Shakespeare's Macbeth Retold: A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018Shakespeare’s dark and tragic play retold in a heart-pounding New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of The Snowman and The Thirst.  Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom—a master of manipulation named Hecate—has connections with the highest in power, and pla... [Read More]

• ASIN: B073YX2FBD
• ASIN: B073YX2FBD
• Manufacturer: Hogarth

The Sandman: A novel (Joona Linna)

The chilling story of an insidious serial killer and the two brilliant detectives who must try to beat him at his own game. An emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering outside Stockholm. Thirteen years earlier, he and his younger sister went missing, presumed to be victims of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, who is now serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. But Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he calls the Sandman. Detective Joona Linna sacrificed everything to capture Jurek, but he a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525433058
• ASIN: 0525433058
• ISBN: 0525433058
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium Series Book 2)

• ASIN: B001NLKT60
• ASIN: B001NLKT60
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Claire Foy. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this ripped-from-the-headlines, high-octane follow-up to Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. One of the Best Books of the Year NPR * USA Today * O, The Oprah Magazine * Esquire   A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. She is Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo. He is Mikael Blomkvist, crusading editor of Millennium. One night, Blomkvist receives a call from a source who claims to have been given information... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101872004
• ASIN: 1101872004
• ISBN: 1101872004
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium Series Book 3)

• ASIN: B0031YJFCQ
• ASIN: B0031YJFCQ
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Foreign Deceit: A David Wolf Mystery

HIS BROTHER IS DEAD HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD.HE’S NOT GETTING THE WHOLE TRUTH. The first thrill-ride mystery in the bestselling David Wolf Series. Deputy Sergeant Wolf’s ex-wife is in back in the picture, jealousy of his upcoming promotion to sheriff is escalating to violence, and a boy has just been reported missing—a lot of action for a ski resort town in the middle of the Colorado Rockies. All that trouble falls to background noise, however, when Wolf learns his brother has just committed suicide in northern Italy. Devastation and resentment of his sibling’s selfish act is short-... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00AR5HWXQ
• ASIN: B00AR5HWXQ
• Manufacturer: Cross Atlantic Publishing

Betrayal

IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT.It ended with an invention.He never intended to use it.But then they betrayed him.Imagine Vince Flynn's TERM LIMITS meets David Baldacci's ABSOLUTE POWER."Best book I've read in years." --Matt Mattocks"The very definition of a page turner!" --Dick Hill"An edge of your seat thriller." --Leslie Obrien_______________________________________Presumed dead after a staged terrorist attack, FBI Agent Odysseus Carr is running for his life with the doctor who rescued him. Meanwhile, the same power players who sent Odi to his death are now manipulating an FBI profiler into bli... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00F0XDNW4
• ASIN: B00F0XDNW4

The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series Book 11)

• ASIN: B01LYUULAP
• ASIN: B01LYUULAP
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Ice Beneath Her: A Novel (Hanne Lagerlind-Schon)

Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling—for fans of the celebrated crime fiction of Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton. Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies beheaded in a posh suburban home—a brutal crime made all the more disturbing by its uncanny resemblance to an unsolved killing ten years earlier. But this time there’s a suspect: the charismatic and cont... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425284328
• ASIN: 0425284328
• ISBN: 0425284328
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Mammoth Book Best International Crime - eBook

Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers.They cover the full spectrum of crime fiction, from noir

• UPC: 317126132
• Rating: 5.0

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 - eBook

The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski.This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir

• UPC: 789038058
• Rating: 3.5

Bloody Scotland : New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers

A collection of crime stories set in iconic Scottish

• UPC: 295463383
• Rating: 5.0

Bloody Scotland: New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers - eBook

AN EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FINALISTTwelve of Scotland’s most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country’s architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and redemptive.Scotland has often been depicted as

• UPC: 929869163
• Rating: 5.0

Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books

A concise commentary on the finest mystery books ever

• UPC: 25666051
• Rating: 3.5

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps : The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s

Here are 45 of the best stories and the major writers who ever appeared in celebrated pulps like "Black Mask, Dime Detective," and "Detective Fiction Weekly." These are the classic tales that created the genre

• UPC: 5620628
• Rating: 3.5

Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 11 - eBook

This superb annual anthology of the year?s most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK is now well into its second decade. Jakubowski has succeeded, once again, in unearthing the best short crime stories

• UPC: 893888313

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 - eBook

The must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - the year's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski.This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir

• UPC: 775138182

The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 9 - eBook

Maxim Jakubowski has once again compiled a blockbuster collection of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK. His aim is always to present the whole breadth of crime, mystery and thriller

• UPC: 410468480

The Best of Crimes - eBook

One afternoon in a leafy New York City suburb, Walter Mitchell walks into the local police station and turns himself in for kidnapping thirteen-year-old Amanda Jonette, his daughter's best friend. The police chief tells him

• UPC: 363813057