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81) The shadow girls
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Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
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Detective Varg novels volume 1
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English
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"The detectives who work in Malmo Police's Department of Sensitive Crimes take their job very seriously. The lead detective, Ulf Varg, prioritizes his cases above even his dog's mental health. Then there are detectives Anna Bengsdotter, who keeps her relationship with Varg professional even as she realizes she's developing feelings for him...or at least for his car, and Carl Holgersson, first to arrive in the morning and last to leave, who would...
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"Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what...
84) Mona
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"A young Latin American author, newly successful, escapes her downward spiral of drugs and erotic detours in California only to find a fresh hell at an ultra-hip literary conference in Sweden"--
85) The merman
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In a small town on the west coast of Sweden, Nella defends her brother Robert from bullies and, when she reaches out for help from her friend Tommy, learns the secret behind his brothers' mysterious behavior.
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For Waldemar Leverkuhn, a retiree living with his wife in a small unit in an unassuming block of apartments, the day couldn't begin more auspiciously. He, along with three friends, have won the lottery. It's a modest but healthy sum of money and the old men toast to their good luck with a celebratory dinner at their usual haunt. The day ends, however, with Leverkuhn drunk, stumbling, belligerent, and eventually dead in his bed, stabbed twenty-eight...
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"Another hilarious crime caper from the #1 bestselling author of the The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules continues the misadventures of the Senior League--who now have their sights set on Saint-Tropez... Nothing can stop the Senior League. They have a plan and it s going to need money. Lots of money. Sure, another bank robbery could finance their endeavour, but they re going to need a lot more than a few million dollars for what they have...
89) The invisible
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.
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2010.
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Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up .... What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home.
91) The beige man
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"Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues struggle to put the pieces together, they discover...
93) Unseen
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Detective Anders Knutas mysteries volume 1
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English
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The island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season and getting ready for Midsummer, the Fourth of July of Swedish holidays, when a young woman and her dog are found brutally murdered. The dog has been beheaded and is missing a paw: the woman is naked, covered in gruesome axe wounds, and her panties have been stuffed in her mouth.
94) Meet me in Malmö
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A British journalist is invited to Malmo to interview an old university friend who is now one of Sweden's leading film directors. When he discovers the director's glamorous film star wife dead in her apartment, the Skane County Police are called in to solve the high-profile case. Among the investigating team is Inspector Anita Sundstrom, who soon finds the list of suspects growing. As Anita battles to discover the answers amid the antagonism of some...
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[2011]
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Swedish
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In 1975, six young people stormed the West German embassy in Stockholm, taking the entire staff hostage. They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader-Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany; but twelve hours into the siege, the embassy was blown up, two hostages were dead, and many others were injured, including the captors. The story then shifts to 1989, as the seemingly unrelated stabbing death of a civil servant is...
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Faye Adelheim volume 01
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2020.
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English
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"Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company, Faye leaves school to support him, waitressing by day and working as his strategist by night. With the business soaring, Faye and Jack have a baby, and Faye finds herself at home, caring for their daughter, wealthier than she ever imagined,...
97) A faraway island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait in separate foster homes for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
98) Drowned
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Drowned, set in the idyllic countryside during a short-lived Swedish summer, gets under one’s skin from the first page, creating an atmosphere of foreboding in which even the perfume of freshly picked vegetables roasting in the kitchen becomes ominous. Marina has left behind her stalled relationship and floundering career in Stockholm to visit her sister in rural Skåne, where she lives in a house full of books, gorgeous flowers and, as Marina...
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Fabian Risk volume 1
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2016.
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English
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"Two gruesome murders have shocked the Swedish town of Helsingborg. The first victim, a thug who liked using his fists, died with his hands sawn off. His sidekick, a fan of steel-capped boots, was crushed to death feet-first. Both men were bullies in the same class at school. Is someone serving justice after thirty years? The killer leaves no trace behind. But for lead investigator Fabian Risk, the lack of forensic evidence is not the only problem....
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