Swedish Crime Fiction

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Alvtegen, Karin - Missing
Sybilla has been living on the streets of Stockholm since age 17. Her peaceful, anonymous existence ends when she is accused of murder and becomes a fugitive. Unable to go to the police for help, Sybilla fights to clear her name and regain the life she built for herself.

Burman, Carina - The Streets of Babylon
Swedish author Euthanasia Bondeson travels to London to visit the Great Exhibition of 1851. When her companion goes missing, she teams up with a Scotland Yard detective to search the backstreets and alleyways of Victorian London for her missing friend.

Edwardson, Ake - Sun and Shadow
Set in gloomy Gothenburg, this slow-paced novel follows young detective Erik Winter as he juggles the sudden death of his father, his pregnant girlfriend moving into his apartment, and a seemingly unsolveable double murder. Edwardson documents every mundane detail and takes an unhurried approach in exposing the killer.

Eriksson, Kjell - The Princess of Burundi
A badly mutilated body is found in the snow and Inspector Ann Lindell rushes to investigate. Erikson enhances his solid police procedural with extraordinary character descriptions and a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse.

Jungstedt, Mari - Unseen
The Swedish resort island of Gotland is rocked by a series of gruesome murders during the height of the summer tourist season. Author Mari Jungstedt introduces imperious detective Anders Knutas in her atmospheric, exciting first novel.

Larsson, Asa - Sun Storm
When a fundamentalist preacher is found murdered, his sister enlists the help of childhood friend Rebecka Martinsson for help. Rebecka probes the church for answers, invoking her own past involvement, as the story builds to an incredibly suspenseful climax.

Larsson, Steig - The Girl Who Played with Fire
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander are back in Larsson’s follow-up to “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” A couple is murdered before they can expose key players in the Swedish sex trafficking industry and Salander is the prime suspect. Follow Blomkvist as he fights to clear Salander’s name while she returns to the darkness of her own past.

Mankell, Henning - Faceless Killers
Inspector Kurt Wallender is charged with investigating the brutal murder of an elderly farm couple. After foreigners are somehow connected to the crime, Wallender must fight a wave of racist sentiment while trying to keep his own personal life from falling apart. The first of Henning Mankell’s “Kurt Wallender” mystery series.

Nesser, Hakan - Mind's Eye
After a night of heavy drinking, Janet Mitter wakes to find his wife dead and is swiftly found guilty of her murder. But when the convicted killer is suddenly found murdered, Inspector Van Veeteren launches an investigation that leads to a shocking conclusion.

Sjowall, Maj - The Laughing Policeman
Nine people are gunned down on a Stockholm city bus. The media concludes the killings were a random act by a crazed lunatic, but Detective Martin Beck thinks otherwise when he discovers an ambitious fellow detective among the victims.

Theorin, Johan - Echoes from the Dead
Set on the island of Oland, a small boy disappears and has been missing for 20 years. The boy’s grandfather discovers a clue and enlists his alcoholic daughter Julia to solve the mystery of her missing only child. Julia is forced to face her own personal grief while unraveling the many mysteries hidden in the island’s isolated history.

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