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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
An English translation of a Swedish novel in which homicide detective Ann Lindell comes off of maternity leave to join her colleague Ola Haver in investigating the murder of John Jonsson, a tropical fish expert with a checkered past.
7) The stranger
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Series
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English
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A string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjällbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before. A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash, but it isn't a clear-cut drunk driving case. The victim's blood contains high alcohol levels, yet she rarely drank a drop. Meanwhile, a new television series begins shooting in Fjällbacka, and as cameras shadow the stars' every move,...
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English
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While investigating the murders of nineteen people, including her grandparents, in a small village in Sweden, Judge Birgitta Roslin learns of others of the same family in Nevada who were also murdered and a connection between China and the slave trade of the nineteenth century.
11) Depths
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Language
English
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October 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago. In the course of his work, he lands on the rocky isle of Halsskär. It seems utterly inhabitable, yet Halsskär is home to the young widow Sara Fredrika. Lars soon learns that Sara, living in near-total isolation, is unaware that the world is at war.
A man of control and precision, Lars is overwhelmed...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A latest installment in the series that includes Unwanted and Daisy follows Fredrika Bergman's investigation into a missing student's murder, a case that is further complicated by additional killings and clues that lead to Fredrika's lover.
14) The shadow lily
Author
Series
Island murders trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This second installment in Johanna Mo's The Island Murders Trilogy finds Detective Hanna Duncker contending with new questions and discoveries that threaten to upend everything she thought she knew about her family"--
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Waldemar Leverkuhn wins the lottery along with three of his friends, celebrates at a bar, and the next day is found dead in his bed, stabbed twenty-eight times. Intendent Münster and his colleague Ewa Moreno are on the case that becomes more complicated when one of Waldemar's friends and one of his neighbors disappears
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Language
English
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With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, an older, reclusive neighbor who slowly becomes a presence in Veronika's life,...
19) The Farm
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After learning his mother was committed to a mental hospital, Daniel receives a call from her, claiming that his lying father is part of a crime conspiracy.
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Language
English
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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.
Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage....
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