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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jacob's daughter and her boyfriend.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Author
Series
Millennium volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson volume 5
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Millennium volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to prove her innocent of three murders and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed her to suffer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 347 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to confront her nemesis, Lisbeth Salander closes in on her target to settle lifelong scores, while Mikael Blomkvist attempts to track her down and protect her, in spite of the fact that he is powerless against her enemies.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
Author
Series
The Joona Linna volume 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The second in a trilogy of fast-paced, high-stakes thirllers by the international bestselling author Emelie Shepp, Marked for revenge infolves the international drug trade and child trafficking and features the brilliant, enigmatic prosecutor Jana Berzelius, whose own dark past has, until recently, been hidden even form herself."--Jacket flap.
Author
Series
Beartown volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the small community of Beartown learns their amateur ice hockey team may be disbanded, the tensions mount, but a surprising new coach offers a chance at a comeback.
12) The Farm
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
Author
Publisher
Bethlehem Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
119 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-tear-old Lisa tells about her brothers and playmates and the happy times they spend making tunnels in the hay, playing the perfect April Fool's Day prank, and creating the Cherry Company in their Swedish village.
16) The blood spilt
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
17) The stranger
Author
Series
Detective Patrik Hedstrom volume 4
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Patrik Hedstrom tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. Change is coming to Sweden's far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala...
19) Geiger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The landline rings as Agneta is waving off her grandchildren. Just one word comes out of the receiver: 'Geiger'. For decades, Agneta has always known that this moment would come, but she is shaken. She knows what it means. Retrieving her weapon from its hiding place, she attaches the silencer and creeps up behind her husband before pressing the barrel to his temple.Then she squeezes the trigger and disappears--leaving behind her wallet and keys....
20) The drowning
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
476 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christian Thydell's dream has come true: his debut novel, The Mermaid, has been published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever? When crime writer Erica Falck, who helped Christian discover and develop his talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but also the young author's mysterious past. Then, one of Christian's closest friends, Magnus, goes missing.
Erica's husband,...