Top 10 Swedish Crime Novels

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  • The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

    • ASIN: B076FNQWTF
    • Manufacturer: Greyson Media

    Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered—one girl lived.No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right—but did she see the killer?Best Mystery-Thriller eBook of the Year — Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018Winner Best T... [Read More]

  • The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel (1) (Detective Varg Series)

    • ASIN: 1524748218
    • ISBN: 1524748218
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

    In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.These are their stories.The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perp... [Read More]

  • The Chestnut Man: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07DNCC3CD
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    A Best Book of the Year: Kirkus, Library Journal, New York Times Book ReviewA Book of the Month Club selection | An Indie Next PickFROM THE CREATOR OF THE HIT TELEVISION SHOW THE KILLING, THE MOST ANTICIPATED THRILLER OF THE SEASON—SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES.IF YOU FIND ONE, HE’S ALREADY FOUND YOUA psychopath is terrorizing Copenhage... [Read More]

  • The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

    • ASIN: B07KQNN4CC
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    The sixth Lisbeth Salander story--the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide.Lisbeth Salander--the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo--has disappeared. She's sold her apartment in Stockholm. She's gone silent electronically. She's told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at long last she'... [Read More]

  • Cold Lake (David Wolf Book 5)

    • ASIN: B00PTR6YUY
    • Manufacturer: Cross Atlantic Publishing

    The truth emerges, one piece at a time.When a fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado, sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene. It doesn't take long to realize more surprises lurk below. Their grim discoveries reopen a cold case Wolf’s father worked twenty-two year... [Read More]

  • Stalker: A novel (Joona Linna)

    • ASIN: 1524732265
    • ISBN: 1524732265
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    “Lars Kepler … [has] a taste for the macabre and a surefire recipe for the lurid serial-killer thriller. … This is not a book for anyone on heart medication. Kepler is a virtuoso at delivering scenes of suspense.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewThe internationally bestselling authors of The Sandman and The Hypnotist retu... [Read More]

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0015DROBO
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  • The Girl in the Ice: A gripping serial killer thriller (Detective Erika Foster Book 1)

    • ASIN: B019G6DSDE
    • Manufacturer: Bookouture

    Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the per... [Read More]

  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series (Millennium Series Book 5)

    • ASIN: B01MR8VA0P
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Lisbeth Salander is back with a vengeance. The series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo continues as brilliant hacker Lisbeth Salander teams up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the secrets of her childhood and to take revenge. Lisbeth Salander—obstinate outsider, volatile seeker o... [Read More]

  • The Body Reader (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Book 1)

    • ASIN: B017RBIZGK
    • Manufacturer: Thomas & Mercer

    A Thriller Award winner, Best Paperback Original Novel.For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.After... [Read More]

  • Dead End Girl: A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller (Violet Darger FBI Thriller Book 1)

    • ASIN: B06Y2H1KM9
    • Manufacturer: Smarmy Press

    Her body is broken. Wrapped in plastic. Dumped on the side of the road. She is the first. There will be more.The serial killer thriller that "refuses to let go until you've read the last sentence."The most recent body was discovered in the grease dumpster behind a Burger King. Dismembered. Shoved into two garbage bags and lowered into the murky oil... [Read More]

  • The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

    • UPC: 884640237275
    • ASIN: 0385354282
    • ISBN: 0385354282
    • Brand: Knopf
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return   She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United S... [Read More]

  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium Series Book 3)

    • ASIN: B0031YJFCQ
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  • The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium Series Book 2)

    • ASIN: B001NLKT60
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  • Norwegian by Night

    • ASIN: B008LQ1B1W
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner An ECONOMIST TOP FICTION TITLE OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER OF THE YEARA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“A soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wilder... [Read More]

  • Seven, eight ... Gonna stay up late (Rebekka Franck, Book 4)

    • ASIN: B00CG69E0I
    • Manufacturer: BUOY MEDIA

    A nail-biting thriller from an Amazon Bestselling Author!She thought she could keep it a secret. Just fourteen years old, Amalie thought she could take off and go to the festival with her best friend without anyone knowing it - without her parents finding out. She thought she was safe when she met a man offering her drugs; she thought she was safe ... [Read More]

  • Betrayal

    • ASIN: B00F0XDNW4

    IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT.It ended with an invention.He never intended to use it.But then they betrayed him.Imagine Vince Flynn's TERM LIMITS meets David Baldacci's ABSOLUTE POWER."Best book I've read in years." --Matt Mattocks"The very definition of a page turner!" --Dick Hill"An edge of your seat thriller." --Leslie Obrien______________________... [Read More]

  • The Ice Swimmer (Oslo Detective Series)

    • ASIN: 1912374072
    • ISBN: 1912374072
    • Manufacturer: Orenda Books

    When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand’s stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway’s security services might be involved in the... [Read More]

  • The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole Series Book 11)

    • ASIN: B01LYUULAP
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

  • Nemesis: A Novel (Harry Hole) (Harry Hole Series)

    • ASIN: 0061655511
    • ISBN: 0061655511
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Captured on closed-circuit television: A man walks into an Oslo bank, puts a gun to a cashier’s head, and tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn’t get his money fast enough, he pulls the trigger. The young woman dies—and two million Norwegian kroner disappear without a trace. After a drunken evening with his former girlf... [Read More]

  • Top 10 Swedish Crime Novels

    My Favourite Scandinavian Books Translated into English

    Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö