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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 602 PAGES

This final installment of the gripping trilogy that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (SWE54) and The Girl Who Played With Fire (SWE53) finds computer hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander teaming up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover a conspiracy involving a secret Swedish security force. (SWE62, $27.95)

Hypothermia, A Thriller

Hypothermia, A Thriller

by Arnaldur Indridason

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

In this sixth haunting book in the series launched with the Gold Dagger-winning Jar City (ICL27) Reykjavik Inspector Erlendur faces the heart-shattering truth of his own past. (ICL51, $15.00)

The Devil's Star

The Devil's Star

by Jo Nesbo

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 452 PAGES

In the satisfying fifth novel in the bestselling series, the city of Oslo has a serial killer on its hands and Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with a colleague he suspects of wrongdoing. (NOR69, $25.99)

Phantom

Phantom

by Jo Nesbo

  • MYSTERY
  • 2012
  • HARD COVER
  • 400 PAGES

Nesbo's hardboiled Harry Hole returns from Hong Kong to Oslo in this seventh novel in the series to be translated into English. (NOR74, $25.95)

 
Arctic Chill

Arctic Chill


by Arnaldur Indridason

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Another chilling police procedural set in contemporary Iceland, the fifth in the series. (ICL46, $15.00)

Jar City

Jar City


by Arnaldur Indridason

  • MYSTERY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Indridason's first moody police procedural finds Reykjavik detective Erlendur Sveinsson investigating the brutal murder of a lonely pensioner, and the man's connection to the deaths of a number of young women. Made into a darkly superb film. (ICL27, $15.00)

Nemesis

Nemesis


by Jo Nesbo

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 5219 PAGES

Book number 4 in the series. (NOR71, $15.99)

Silence of the Grave

Silence of the Grave


by Arnaldur Indridason

  • MYSTERY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Reykjavik police inspector Erlendur Sveinsson uncovers an old skeleton and unsavory secrets in Indridason's excellent second crime novel translated into English. Winner of the 2005 Gold Dagger award. (ICL36, $15.00)

The Draining Lake


by Arnaldur Indridason

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER

Inspector Erlendur investigates a skeleton revealed after an earthquake in this fourth book in the series. (ICL52, $14.00)

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Played With Fire


by Stieg Larsson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 608 PAGES

Larrson's thrilling sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (SWE54) follows a computer hacker and a journalist as they're drawn into a murder investigation involving a sex-trafficking ring in Stockholm. (SWE53, $15.95)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


by Stieg Larsson

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Larsson combines murder mystery, family saga, love story and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel set in Stockholm and the snowy landscapes of northern Sweden. (SWE54, $15.95)

The Redbreast

The Redbreast


by Jo Nesbo

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 519 PAGES

The third novel in the hardboiled series starring Oslo detective Harry Hole, this thriller alternatives between the Eastern Front in 1944 and 1999. (NOR70, $15.99)

Voices

Voices


by Arnaldur Indridason

  • MYSTERY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Inspector Erlendur returns in this third thriller set in Reykjavik, where the Christmas rush is at its peak and a man dressed as Santa has been brutally stabbed in a local hotel. (ICL53, $15.00)

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