Tiina Nunnally
1) The drowning
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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 Falk, 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 closet friends, Magnus, goes missing. Erica's husband,...
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Language
English
Description
Shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother's possessions, crime writer Erica Falck resolves to dig into her family's past and uncover the reasons why. At the home of a retired history teacher who was among her mother's circle of friends during the Second World War, her questions are met with bizarre and evasive answers. Two days later he meets a violent death. Who would kill so ruthlessly to bury secrets so old?
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Language
English
Description
"In Jewish scripture, there is a legend: There are thirty-six righteous people on earth. The thirty-six protect us. Without them, humanity would perish. In Beijing, a monk collapses. A fiery mark appears on his back. In Mumbai, it is an economist who served the poor. Similar deaths are reported around the world. In Venice, an enterprising Italian policeman links them. Who is killing the world's good people. In Copenhagen, police preparing for a world...
4) Fairy-tales
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Language
English
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Description
Presents a collection of Andersen's fairy tales.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander Mysteries: An “uplifting . . . grittily realistic” fable about war-torn Africa and a mystical orphan boy (The New York Times).
A single gunshot cracks the silence of a hot African night. On the rooftop of a local theater company, a ten-year-old boy slowly dies of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer...
A single gunshot cracks the silence of a hot African night. On the rooftop of a local theater company, a ten-year-old boy slowly dies of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer...
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Series
Language
English
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"Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
7) The lost boy
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Detective Patrik Hedström is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjällbacka's dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes. It seems Mats was a man everybody liked yet nobody knew--a man with something to hide"--Page 4 of cover.
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English
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Description
The cycle follows the life of Kristin Lavransdatter, a fictitious Norwegian woman living in the 14th century. Kristin grows up in Sil in Gudbrandsdalen, the daughter of a well-respected and affluent farmer. She experiences a number of conflicts in her relationships with her parents, and her husband Erlend, in medieval Norway. She finds comfort and conciliation in her Catholic faith.
9) The fir tree
Author
Language
English
Description
The life of a little fir tree who, when discarded, recalls with nostalgia its two glorious moments--being a beautiful fir and being a brightly-lit Christmas tree.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A handsome doctor stirs up scandal in the eighteenth-century Danish royal court in this "extraordinarily elegant and gorgeous novel" (Los Angeles Times).
The Royal Physician's Visit magnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee-court physician to mad young King Christian-stepped through an aperture in history and became the holder of absolute power in Denmark. His is a gripping tale of power, sex, love,...
12) Unseen
Author
Series
Anders Knutas ; 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Swedish crime at its best, dark, atmospheric, and chilling
The island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season and getting ready for Midsummer, the 4th of July of Swedish holidays, when a young woman and her dog are found brutally murdered. The dog has been beheaded and is missing a paw; the woman is naked, covered in gruesome axe wounds, and her panties have been stuffed in her mouth.
What looks like a crime committed by the victim's...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Swedish novelist Ola Larsmo's historical novel Swede Hollow follows a group of Swedish immigrants at the turn of the 20th century and their experiences trying to forge a life for their families in Swede Hollow, a collection of shacks in a wooded ravine on the edge of the emerging industrial city of St. Paul"--
When Gustaf and Anna Klar and their three children leave Sweden for New York in 1897, they take with them a terrible secret and a longing...
14) Unspoken
Author
Series
Anders Knutas ; 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the great depths surrounding the Lofoten islands in Norway lives the infamous Greenland shark. At twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a ton, it is truly a beast to behold. But the shark is not just known for its size alone: its meat contains a toxin that, when consumed, has been known to make people drunk and hallucinatory. Shark Drunk is the true story of two friends, the author and the eccentric artist Hugo Aasjord, as they embark...
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Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
" Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl's critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior and in the region's small towns and deep forests. The grandson of Norwegian immigrants, Lance Hansen is a U.S. Forest Service officer and has...
18) Killer's art
Author
Series
Anders Knutas ; 4
Publisher
Stockholm Text
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It is a cold wintry morning in the picturesque port town of Visby when art dealer Egon Wallin's battered and naked body is found suspended feet from the ground, hanging from the 'gate of love' in the town's old city walls.
19) The ice child
Author
Series
Hedstrom ; 9
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"January, Fjällbacka. A semi-naked girl wanders through the woods in freezing cold weather. When she finally reaches the road, a car comes out of nowhere. It doesn't manage to stop. By the time Detective Patrik Hedström receives word of the accident, the girl has already been identified. Four months ago she disappeared on her way home from the local riding school, and no one has seen her since. It quickly becomes clear that she has been subjected...
Author
Series
Anders Knutas ; 5
Publisher
Stockholm Text
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Karin Jacobsson, Anders Knutas's newly promoted deputy, starts a complex inquiry into a murder committed while Knutas is on holiday. Peter Bovide, the owner of a small construction company, has been camping on the island of Faro with his wife and children. One morning, Bovide fails to return from his regular morning jog, and his bullet-ridden body, including multiple stomach shots after one to the head, turns up shortly afterward.