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Hidden in Shadows
Viveca Sten; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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R278
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Secrets, vengeance, and a brutal murder unsettle an idyllic winter
paradise in a blood-chilling novel of suspense by the acclaimed
author of Hidden in Snow and the Sandhamn Murder series. In the
Swedish ski resort of Åre, crime is rare. Certainly nothing so
brutal as the murder of Johan Andersson, a former Olympic skier
found bound and beaten to death in the forest. According to his
distraught wife, he didn’t have any enemies in the world. To
Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog, the crime
proves otherwise. But what could have provoked such rage? And in
whom? As Hanna and Daniel search for answers, Rebecka Ekvall, a
vulnerable pastor’s wife, is trapped in an abusive marriage.
Isolated from her congregation, she’s afraid of her husband and
even more fearful for her life. Because Rebecka carries a fateful
secret. But she isn’t the only one in Åre with something to
hide. As Hanna and Daniel continue to untangle the dark histories
of a growing list of suspects, they realize that Johan’s murder
is just the beginning of a disturbing case about survival and
revenge—at any cost.
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The Kindness (Hardcover)
John Ajvide Lindqvist; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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R816
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A shipping container is mysteriously dumped in the Swedish port
town of Norrtalje. Due to their ignorance of its ownership it isn't
until a week has passed that the authorities can have it forced
open. There the remains of twenty eight refugees are found, a
situation of unrelenting horror. Not only that; a black sludge
pours out which contaminates the river and is the cause of a new,
sickening dread that affects Norrtalje's inhabitants, causing a
lack of trust, aggression, violence. It seems like an end to
Kindness. Six characters are at the centre of this extraordinary
novel, six people in search of love and connection, whose
extraordinary qualities will confront the metaphysical illness
consuming their town. 'As Lindqvist has increasingly devoted
himself to the subtle plumbing of the human soul he has become a
distinctive and urgent voice in contemporary literature' - Svenska
Dagbladet
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Snowdrift (Paperback)
Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy
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The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a
bone-chilling crime. On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna
Ahlander's personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge
at her sister's lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of A re.
But it's a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the
sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can't help but
investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands
a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with
Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with
finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow. As subzero
temperatures drop even further, a treacherous blizzard sweeps
toward A re. Hanna and Daniel's investigation is getting more
desperate by the hour. Lost or abducted, either way time is running
out for the missing girl. Each new clue closes in on something far
more sinister than either Hanna or Daniel imagined. In this devious
novel by the bestselling author of the Sandhamn Murders series,
discover what it will take to solve a case when the truth can be so
easily hidden in the coming storm.
When two cold case disappearances are reopened, a decade of deadly
secrets is unearthed on Sandhamn Island in the #1 bestselling
thriller by Viveca Sten, author of In Bad Company. A woman's
skeletal remains are excavated on an uninhabited island in
Sandhamn's archipelago, and Thomas Andreasson is called to
officially investigate. But his best friend, Nora Linde, can't help
but get involved. On leave after her last case took a dark turn,
Nora is tortured by depression, nightmares, and guilt. Her marriage
fractured, her pride chipped away, Nora could find redemption in
this investigation. Then evidence suggests two possible cold cases
linked to the grim discovery: two women who have been missing for
ten years. Now Nora feels compelled to unearth a mystery someone
has gone to great pains to bury. What could have happened to
require such a cover-up? As the cold case vanishings converge, Nora
follows a twisting trail of revenge, blackmail, and betrayal. She's
also inviting the watchful eye of someone determined to stop her.
To free herself from the damaging grip of the past-and the reach of
a relentless killer-Nora is going to have to brave the darkness one
more time.
A shocking abduction rocks idyllic Sandhamn Island in an
enthralling novel of suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of
In the Heat of the Moment. With the summer season on Sandhamn comes
an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A
bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring
Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or,
in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it
something more ominous? The disappearance has also captured the
interest of Thomas’s longtime friend, attorney Nora Linde. The
missing child happens to be the son of her latest client, Christian
Dufva. He is a key witness against his partner in a high-profile
embezzlement trial, and Dufva’s testimony could be devastating.
It’ll also be Nora’s biggest win—the next step toward a
position as chief prosecutor. But with every anonymous threat
against Dufva, the stakes get higher. When new evidence surfaces in
their respective cases, new questions and fears arise for Thomas
and Nora. Time is running out to resolve them. So is hope of
finding the boy alive. Because on Sandhamn Island, the truth is
buried as deep as the secrets.
Sandhamn Island's archipelago is a beautiful place to visit. For a
mother on the run, it's the only place to hide in a novel of
escalating suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Still
Waters. Building a case against Andreis Kovac is a risky strategy
for prosecutor Nora Linde. A violent key player in Stockholm's drug
trade and untouchable when it comes to financial crimes, he has the
best defense money can buy. To topple Andreis's empire, Nora's
working a different angle. It's personal. Nora's critical witness
is Andreis's wife, Mina-if she'll testify. Mina has suffered her
husband's rage too long. It's nearly cost her her life. Still
carrying the traumas of the Bosnian War, Andreis can be triggered
like an explosive. He must be taken down. And as the trial looms,
Mina and her infant son must disappear. The police have found her a
safe place to hide on Runmaroe Island in Sandhamn's archipelago.
But there's no shelter from a man as powerful and merciless as
Andreis. Especially when he's being crossed. His campaign of terror
has just begun. He's prepared to crush anyone who stands in his
way: Mina, Nora, and everyone they know and love. Andreis is coming
for them. This time, Nora is on the defense.
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Still Waters (Paperback)
Viveca Sten; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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R461
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The first book in Swedish author Viveca Sten's enormously popular
Sandhamn Murders series. On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic
vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and
makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has
washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to
arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified the deceased as
Krister Berggren, a bachelor from the mainland who has been missing
for months. All signs point to an accident-until another brutalized
corpse is found at the local bed-and-breakfast. But this time it is
Berggren's cousin, whom Thomas interviewed in Stockholm just days
before. As the island's residents reel from the news, Thomas turns
to his childhood friend, local lawyer Nora Linde. Together, they
attempt to unravel the riddles left behind by these two mysterious
outsiders-while trying to make sense of the difficult twists their
own lives have taken since the shared summer days of their youth.
The silent, snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of
Christmas tranquillity. But over the tolling of bells for the last
Sunday of Advent, a black note sounds. A boy's body washes up near
the shoreline of the city's Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by
the water, almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to
report him missing. One week later, the bishop of Bergen is found
stabbed to death on a deserted street. Eva Karin Lysgaard is a
popular public figure, a sixty-two year-old grandmother: why was
she on a lone errand in the deserted city, on the night before
Christmas? Johanne Vik, criminal researcher and police profiler, is
called in to untangle the motivation behind the bishop's murder.
But with her husband at the head of this increasingly high-profile
investigation, Vik's association with the case is under intense
scrutiny. And why does Lysgaard's shocking death lead her towards
the sad death of an unknown boy? The fourth instalment in the
sensationally gripping Vik/Stubo series.
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Little Star (Paperback)
John Ajvide Lindqvist; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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'The new Stephen King. Don't miss it' The Times He found her as a
baby, abandoned in the forest. He saved her life. With her first
breath - a perfect, musical note - he realised she was no ordinary
child. It was for her own protection that he hid her from the
authorities. Was it his fault, what she turned into? Or was that
why she was left for dead in the first place? The girl who became a
little star. Who became, with her extraordinary powers, the most
terrifying thing imaginable. In John Ajvide Lindqvist's fourth
masterpiece, he ratchets up the tension until the story reaches its
blood-chilling conclusion. In doing so, he confirms his place as
the undisputed new king of horror. 'A magician of genre fiction'
Independent
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Harbour (Paperback)
John Ajvide Lindqvist; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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'Lindqvist is Sweden's answer to Stephen King' Daily Mirror They
only stopped watching her for a couple of minutes. That was all it
took. It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their
feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish
archipelago to visit the lighthouse. There was no one around, so
they let her run on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin
air, and was never found. Two years later, Anders is a broken
alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home
of his childhood and his family. But all he finds are Maja's toys
and through the haze of memory, loss and alcohol, he realizes that
someone - or something - is trying to communicate with him. His
return sets in motion a series of horrifying events which exposes a
mysterious and troubling relationship between the inhabitants of
the remote island and the sea.
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Quicksand (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Laurie Thompson, Marlaine Delargy
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R383
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In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer.
However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it
means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage
and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal illness. This
book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the
very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the
dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock
of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years. It is a book
about how humanity has lived and continues to live, and about how
Henning lived his own life. And, not least, about the great zest
for life, which came back when he managed to drag himself out of
the quicksand that threatened to suck him down into the abyss.
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After the Fire (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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R471
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1222 (Paperback, Main)
Anne Holt; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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Discovery Miles 2 600
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THE EIGHTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES. A snowbound
mountain pass, a derailed train, a locked, shuttered and heavily
guarded carriage, an apocalyptic storm, an ancient hotel, old
betrayals, murder and state secrets. 1222 metres above sea level:
train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst
snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. With night
falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are
forced to abandon their snowbound train and find shelter in a
centuries-old mountain hotel. Before dawn breaks, one of them will
be murdered. Trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly
storm outside, Hanne Wilhelmsen's unease is mounting. Why was the
last train carriage sealed? Why is the top floor of the hotel
locked down? And, of course, what if the killer strikes again?
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Guiltless (Paperback)
Viveca Sten; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for
lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds
its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter.
That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the
woods. The boys' gruesome discovery will once again connect Nora
with her childhood friend Thomas Andreasson, now a local police
detective. When the limb is identified as belonging to a
twenty-year-old woman who disappeared without a trace months
earlier, what had been a missing persons case takes on a whole new
urgency. Nora and Thomas delve deeply into the woman's final hours,
each of them wrestling not only with the case but with the private
demons it awakens in them. As they do, they'll find themselves
drawn into the history of Sandhamn and the tensions that have been
simmering just below the surface for more than a hundred years.
The follow-up collection to the international vampire bestseller
Let the Right One In **Includes the short story Border, now a major
film** Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the
beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the
Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds
a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer
has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and
a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories
of John Ajvide Lindqvist's rich imagination. They are about love
and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters
emerge.
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After the Fire (Paperback)
Henning Mankell; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he
retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an
island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if
necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to
find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two
left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse
the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and
evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for
generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot
think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the
police begin to think he started the fire himself. Tackling love,
loss and loneliness, After the Fire is Henning Mankell's compelling
last novel.
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The Unit (Hardcover)
Ninni Holmqvist; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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R888
Discovery Miles 8 880
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The Kindness (Paperback)
John Ajvide Lindqvist; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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A shipping container is mysteriously dumped in the Swedish port
town of Norrtalje. Due to their ignorance of its ownership it isn't
until a week has passed that the authorities can have it forced
open. There the remains of twenty eight refugees are found, a
situation of unrelenting horror. Not only that; a black sludge
pours out which contaminates the river and is the cause of a new,
sickening dread that affects Norrtalje's inhabitants, causing a
lack of trust, aggression, violence. It seems like an end to
Kindness. Six characters are at the centre of this extraordinary
novel, six people in search of love and connection, whose
extraordinary qualities will confront the metaphysical illness
consuming their town. 'As Lindqvist has increasingly devoted
himself to the subtle plumbing of the human soul he has become a
distinctive and urgent voice in contemporary literature' - Svenska
Dagbladet
What's a lie among friends? It's murder-in this riveting thriller
by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead... It's
Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year,
and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year. But the fun
comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage
girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women
vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde
and her new boyfriend, Jonas Skoeld, the crimes are personal: one
of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas's daughter. And her
disappearance could test Nora and Jonas's relationship in ways they
never expected. Thrust into the investigation, they soon discover
that it's more than a case of bad blood between friends. But the
truth, which has receded into a haze of carousing, drugs, and
liquor, is getting harder to see. If Nora and Jonas are going to
find out what happened to Wilma, they'd better do it fast-before
the ebbing tides sweep away all the terrible secrets of that night
on Sandhamn Island.
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I Am Behind You (Paperback)
John Ajvide Lindqvist; Translated by Marlaine Delargy
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A supernatural superthriller from the author of Let the Right One
In Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is
strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has
gone too. This is a place with no sun. No god. Just four families
remain. Each has done something to bring them here - each denies
they deserve it. Until they see what's coming over the horizon,
moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest
fear. And for just one of them, their homecoming. This gripping
conceptual horror takes you deep into one of the most macabre and
unique imaginations writing in the genre. On family, on children,
Lindqvist writes in a way that tears the heart and twists the soul.
I Am Behind You turns the world upside down and, disturbing,
terrifying and shattering by turns, it will suck you in.
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