The Nordic crime wave continues. Try one of these new additions.
Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
Writer Erica Falck returns to her hometown after her parent’s funeral to learn that her friend, Alex, was found dead in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed. Her death is initially ruled a suicide. Disturbed by her friend’s death Falck decides to write a memoir about the remote and beautiful Alex, one that will help her with a bad case of writer’s block. She joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.
Red Wolf: a novel by Liza Marklund
Stockholm journalist Annika Bengtzon turns independent reporter, mostly pursuing terrorism stories. While she’s investigating in the northern town of Lulea, a fellow journalist and source dies in a hit-and-run accident, which turns out to be the first in a series of murders. Annika traces these murders to a deadly act of sabotage on a Swedish military base in 1969, and begins to suspect that the man behind the present-day slayings and the army base attack is a man that goes by the code name “Ragnwald”. As Annika delves deeper into the murder and sabotage her marriage begins to falter, can she juggle a demanding career, two children and a marriage in trouble?
Last Rituals by Yrsa Siguroardottir
Lawyer Thora Gudmundsdottir and her new partner, Matthew Reich, journey to a remote corner of Iceland to investigate how the murder of a German student may be connected to the victim’s interest in witchcraft.
Last Fix by Kjell Ola Dahl
After recovering drug addict Katrine Bratterund is found dead on the shore of a serene lake, detectives delve into the case, which holds a web of secrets and lies that stretches back generations.
Friday, June 10, 2011
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