Best Scandinavian Detective Novels - May 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

The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel (1) (Detective Varg Series)

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.These are their stories.The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perpetrate such a crime and why? Next: a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. But how on earth do you search for someone who doesn't exist? And in the final investigation: eerie secrets that are revealed under a full moon may not seem so supe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524748218
• ASIN: 1524748218
• ISBN: 1524748218
• Manufacturer: Pantheon

The Chestnut Man: A Novel

A Best Book of the Year: Kirkus, Library Journal, New York Times Book ReviewA Book of the Month Club selection | An Indie Next PickFROM THE CREATOR OF THE HIT TELEVISION SHOW THE KILLING, THE MOST ANTICIPATED THRILLER OF THE SEASON—SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES.IF YOU FIND ONE, HE’S ALREADY FOUND YOUA psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene.Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery—a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a gov... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DNCC3CD
• ASIN: B07DNCC3CD
• Manufacturer: Harper

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: B07KQNN4CC
• ASIN: B07KQNN4CC
• Manufacturer: Knopf

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

Stalker: A novel (Joona Linna)

“Lars Kepler … [has] a taste for the macabre and a surefire recipe for the lurid serial-killer thriller. … This is not a book for anyone on heart medication. Kepler is a virtuoso at delivering scenes of suspense.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewThe internationally bestselling authors of The Sandman and The Hypnotist return with a terrifying new thriller: Detective Joona Linna--recently returned from compassionate leave--reunites with hypnotist Erik Maria Bark in a search for a seemingly unassailable sadistic killer.    The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524732265
• ASIN: 1524732265
• ISBN: 1524732265
• Manufacturer: Knopf

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

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

The Girl in the Ice: A gripping serial killer thriller (Detective Erika Foster Book 1)

Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London.What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hidin... [Read More]

• ASIN: B019G6DSDE
• ASIN: B019G6DSDE
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

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

The Body Reader (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Book 1)

A Thriller Award winner, Best Paperback Original Novel.For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her r... [Read More]

• ASIN: B017RBIZGK
• ASIN: B017RBIZGK
• Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

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

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return   She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385354282
• UPC: 884640237275
• ASIN: 0385354282
• ISBN: 0385354282
• Brand: Knopf
• Manufacturer: Knopf

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

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

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

• ASIN: B001NLKT60
• ASIN: B001NLKT60
• 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

Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare - eBook

Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the London Evening Standard. Among them, The Story of Hermione, in which the eponymous character grows rich from the all too convenient deaths of several relatives, has been called

• UPC: 595491556
• Rating: 3.0

The Best Max Carrados Detective Stories

Written during the first flowering of detective fiction, these tales of a blind sleuth combine intellectual thrills with imagination and style. Ten mysteries range in settings from Edwardian London through the early

• UPC: 55747053
• Rating: 3.0

Connections in Death : An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 48) - Paperback

Connections in Death (An Eve Dallas Novel)

• UPC: 858845490

The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short

• UPC: 497261548

Vendetta in Death : An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 49)

Lieutenant Eve Dallas must keep the predator from becoming the prey in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robb. Lady Justice's criminal crusade is escalating rapidly, and if Eve can't stop

• UPC: 231789681

The World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - eBook

Got a hankering for some classic detective fiction? Dip into the comprehensive collection brought together by the editors of the The World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories. From supernaturally inspired mysteries to eminently rational sleuths,

• UPC: 545797267

ARCHIPELAGO: a Scandinavian Mystery - eBook

**Murder in the Stockholm archipelago  **When his quiet vacation turns into a murder tragedy, and when the police investigation turns into a failure, Timmy and his friends must solve the puzzle on their own. It's

• UPC: 626090979

The Best Works of Allan Pinkerton (Best Works Including The Expressman and the Detective, The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Spy of the Rebellion, And More) - eBook

The Best Works of Allan Pinkerton Bucholz and the Detectives Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives The Expressman and the Detective The Somnambulist and the Detective The Spy of the

• UPC: 847601120

Bell-Eye, the Best, Littlest Detective Agency in Palm Beach, Florida - eBook

Come see how the Rich, Famous and very Naughty live in Palm Beach. Share the wealth, and the fun as Bell-Eye the famous dectective rolls with the Rich, and Famous and absolutely foils the Naughty.

• UPC: 550712122

Bell-Eye, the Best, Littlest Detective Agency in Palm Beach, Florida - eBook

It's all about Halloween fun. The Rich, Famous and very Naughty live in Palm Beach, Florida. But now the ghouls have come to Palm Beach, Florida for Halloween. It's up to Bell-Eye, the famous detective

• UPC: 404841720