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Some Kind of Peace (Paperback)
Camilla Grebe, Asa Traff; Translated by Paul Norlen
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R376
R355
Discovery Miles 3 550
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SOMEONE IS WATCHING SIRI BERGMAN.
A thirty-four-year-old psychologist with a troubled past, Siri
Bergman works in central Stockholm and lives alone in an isolated
cottage outside the city. Terrified of the dark, she leaves all the
lights on when she goes to bed--after having a few glasses of wine
to calm her nerves--but she can't shake the feeling that someone is
spying on her through the blackened windows.
When the lifeless body of Sara Matteus--a young patient of Siri's
with a history of drug addiction and sexual abuse--is found
floating in the water near the cottage, Siri can no longer deny
that someone is out there, watching her and waiting. With the help
of Markus, the young policeman investigating Sara's death; Vijay,
an old friend and psychology professor; and Aina, her best friend,
Siri sets out to catch the murderer and finally put her past to
rest. But as their investigation unfolds, virtually everyone Siri
trusts will become a potential suspect.
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The Ninth Grave (Paperback)
Stefan Ahnhem; Translated by Paul Norlen
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R245
R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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The stunning prequel to Victim Without a Face. TWO COUNTRIES IN THE
GRIP OF WINTER. On the coldest day of the year, Sweden's Minister
for Justice steps into a blizzard - and disappears. Who has taken
him? That same night, across the Baltic Sea, a Danish celebrity is
at her home, locked in and cut off from the snow. Then she hears
footsteps in her living room. Who is in her house? TWO KILLERS
STALK THE STREETS. The police are soon hunting two different
murderers. One is a surgeon who carefully dissects his victims. The
other is a brutal predator who targets random women. Police in
Stockholm and Copenhagen are closing in on their suspects. But as
winter darkens and more people die, their investigations begin to
unravel. SOMETIMES MURDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING... REVIEWS FOR
STEFAN AHNHEM: 'Atmospheric and complicated [...] with great cop
characters and some imaginatively grisly perps' Sunday Times (star
pick). 'More gripping than Jo Nesbo, blacker than Stieg Larsson and
more bleakly human than Henning Mankell' Tony Parsons. 'Epic in
scale and ambition' Daily Mail. 'An intense journey, with an
intricate plot ... Ahnhem has mastered atmosphere, pacing and
intrigue' Crime Review. 'Masterly plotting, grisly murders and
chilling suspense: Stefan Ahnhem keeps the threads of this complex,
two-country narrative pulled tense' Better Reading.
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The Mermaid
Anki Edvinsson; Translated by Paul Norlen
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R251
R207
Discovery Miles 2 070
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Could the prime suspect in a murder be a victim too? The body of a
homeless woman is found in the river, viciously beaten and with all
her teeth removed. A young immigrant, the prime suspect in a recent
spate of robberies in Umeå, was seen running in the vicinity
around the time the body was dumped. Trouble is, he hasn’t been
seen since. When he does appear, in the town square, he’s wearing
an explosive vest and holding a detonator. Called in to
investigate, Detectives Charlotte von Klint and Per Berg have a
complex web of leads to contend with. But Per is preoccupied with a
serious illness within the family, while Charlotte is struggling to
make her peace with an old flame being assigned to their unit while
she navigates the early days of a new relationship. Despite the
upheaval in their private lives, the duo must use all their focus
to discover whether the two incidents are connected—and, if so,
how. Was the bomber responsible for the woman in the river? Or is
it possible he’s another victim in the case? With time running
out, the pressure is on for Charlotte and Per to catch the killer
and restore peace in a city fast spiralling out of control.
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The Snow Angel
Anki Edvinsson; Translated by Paul Norlen
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R280
R242
Discovery Miles 2 420
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A teenage suicide. A murdered pharmacist. A missing girl. Is the
obvious connection the right one? When a boy leaps to his death
from a bridge in the northern town of Umeå, Sweden, police
discover drugs scattered in the snow near his body. The town has
seen a dramatic increase in narcotic use among its youth, but
nobody knows where the pills are coming from. Relocating from
Stockholm with her teenage daughter, Detective Charlotte von Klint
expected Umeå to be a quiet backwater, a snow-covered change of
pace from fighting the criminal underworld of the capital. But when
a pharmacist is found brutally murdered in her apartment, and a
young girl and her dealer boyfriend vanish without a trace after a
party, suddenly Umeå doesn’t seem so benign. And the boy on the
bridge doesn’t feel like an isolated incident. Is the dealer the
perpetrator? Or just another victim? And can it be a coincidence
that a shadow from Charlotte’s past, Syndicates boss Tony
Israelsson, has recently been released from prison and is
reportedly headed for Umeå? As the snow deepens and the body count
rises, Charlotte and her boss, local cop Per Berg, find themselves
in a deadly pursuit, with time rapidly running out.
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The Girl in the Ice (Paperback)
Lotte Hammer, Soren Hammer; Translated by Paul Norlen
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R563
R504
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Under the heartless vault of the Greenland's arctic sky the body of
a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of
miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice
cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has revealed her. When
Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to
investigate this horrific murder and he sees how she was attacked,
it triggers a dark memory and he realises this was not the killer's
only victim. As Simonsen's team work to discover evidence that has
long since been buried, they unearth truths that certain people
would rather stayed forgotten, disturbing details about the moral
standing of some of Denmark's political figures are revealed and
powerful individuals are suddenly working against them. But the
pressure is on as it becomes clear that the killer chooses victims
who all look unsettlingly similar, a similarity that may be used to
the investigators' advantage, just so long as they can keep the
suspect in their sights...
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Intrigo (Paperback)
Hakan Nesser; Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner, Paul Norlen
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R346
R269
Discovery Miles 2 690
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For fans of Scandinavian crime, Intrigo is the gripping collection of Håkan Nesser’s best novellas and short stories, three of which have been adapted into major motion pictures.
Set in the fictional city of Maardam, each story is linked by themes of secrets coming to light, lies being exposed, and pasts coming back to haunt the people who thought they had fled them – all told in Håkan Nesser’s signature style of dark, cutting prose that displays a true understanding of human nature.
The collection is the basis for a trilogy of international films - Dear Agnes, Death of an Author and Samaria - directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Ben Kingsley and Gemma Chan.
'The book is grand, beautiful, exciting and poignant ... It is full
of poetical phrasing ... yet allows for the naughty spirit of
childhood to remain true' Guardian 'Never before had Nils travelled
around at such good speed, and he had always liked riding fast and
wild ... Nor had he thought what it might be like to travel so high
above the ground. But it was like flying away from worries and
sorrows and annoyances of every imaginable kind' Nils Holgersson is
a naughty boy who pulls the tails of cats and trips up his mother
while she is carrying the milk pail. Then one day he discovers he
has been magically turned into a tiny imp. He climbs on the back of
a gander and takes off with a flock of wild geese as they fly over
Sweden, soaring above patchwork fields, through storms, to castles
and lakes and even to a city under the sea. As he learns about the
world, he also learns what it means to care for living things, in
Selma Lagerloef's timeless and beloved fable.
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Open Grave (Paperback)
Kjell Eriksson; Translated by Paul Norlen
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R444
R412
Discovery Miles 4 120
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A Swedish "Gone with the Wind" by the first woman to win the Nobel
Prize in Literature--published here in the first new English
translation in more than 100 years
One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerlof became the first woman to
win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish
letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and
best-loved novel, and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the
same name that launched Greta Garbo to stardom. Set in 1820s
Sweden, it tells the story of a defrocked minister named Gosta
Berling. After his appetite for alcohol and previous indiscretions
end his career, Berling finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate
owned by Margareta Celsing, the "Majoress," that also houses an
assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleonic Wars. Berling's
defiant and poetic spirit proves magnetic to a string of women, who
fall under his spell against the backdrop of political intrigue at
Margareta's estate and the magnificent wintry beauty of rural
Sweden.
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