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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by her powerful family, her uncle, convinced that she had been murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional clan, hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to prove her innocent of three murders and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed her to suffer, and, on her own, Lisbeth plots revenge against the man who tried to kill her.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD detective Jack Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him—he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each restaurant through a killer's eyes.
Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have become victims of the same sadistic killers. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter,...
Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have become victims of the same sadistic killers. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter,...
Author
Series
Beartown volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.
6) The sandman
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two brilliant police agents must hold fast to their sanity to beat a manipulative serial killer at his own game and rescue a girl who went missing thirteen years earlier.
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 6
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Ewert Grens and undercover criminal informant Piet Hoffmann maintain unofficial contact while outmaneuvering a Colombian drug cartel that raises the stakes by kidnapping the U.S. Speaker of the House.
8) Geiger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A Swedish police officer's murder investigation sets her on a dark journey when her childhood next door neighbor shoots her husband of 50 years after receiving a phone call that says the single word, "Geiger."
Author
Series
Detective Varg novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A detective in Malmo’s Department of Sensitive Crimes, Ulf Varg, while dealing with surprising new cases, struggles with his feelings for a colleague.
Author
Series
Beartown volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
As simmering tensions between the towns of Beartown and Hed turn into acts of intimidation and then violence, a 14-year-old boy, increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community, puts in motion a plan to avenge his beloved sister’s death that will leave Beartown with an unimaginable loss.
12) After the fire
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Disgraced retired surgeon Fredrik is living alone on a Swedish island when his house catches on fire, prompting an arson investigation, a fateful meeting with a local journalist, and a reunion with his daughter.
13) Winter grave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a mentally disabled boy is wrongly targeted with suspicion in the wake of a child's disappearance, Detective Inspector Embla uncovers suspicious links to an unsolved missing-persons case from her childhood.
15) Hunting game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an annual moose hunt leads to murder, 28-year-old Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must delve into the dark pasts of her fellow hunters to expose a killer.
16) Snowdrift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström puts her life on the line when a new lead breaks in the unsolved disappearance of her best friend, a cold case that is further complicated by the murder of a notorious gang member.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Named guardian to her niece, whose mother has disappeared, Lisbeth Salander, while keeping the remarkably gifted teenager safe, comes to Mikael Blomkvist’s aid when rumors about the man his daughter is about to marry lead to violence, plunging them both into a world of conspiracy and betrayal in the ice-bound wilderness.
Author
Series
Detective Varg novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
In the midst of downsizing at the Department of Sensitive Crimes, Ulf Varg investigates the mysterious disappearance of a man’s cabin, wondering how one tracks down a stolen house, while enrolling his dog, Martin, in a promising veterinary treatment for deafness.
20) The hidden child
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
After finding a Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings, crime writer Erica Falck meets with an old friend of her mother's, who is suddenly and violently murdered two days later, and Erica must turn to her mother's wartime diaries for clues.
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