Elizabeth Clark Wessel
1) The Swimmer
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Series
Klara Walldeen novels volume 1
Description
"A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew... In the end, you cannot hide who you are. Klara Walldéen was raised by her grandparents on a remote archipelago in the Baltic Sea, learning to fish and hunt and sail a boat through a storm. Now, as an EU Parliament aide in Brussels, she is learning how to navigate the treacherous currents of international politics: the lines between friend and enemy, truth and lies....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"When human remains are found in the stomach of a dead wolf in the remote northern town of Haparanda, Sweden, policewoman Hannah Wester knows that this summer won't be like any other. The remains are linked to a bloody drug deal across the border in Finland. But how did the victim end up in the woods outside of Haparanda? And where have the drugs and money gone? When the secretive and deadly Katja arrives, unexpected and brutal events start to pile...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"In this elegant and action-packed stand-alone sequel to the international bestselling thrillers The Swimmer and The Believer, fierce heroine Klara Walldéen must save her dearest friend Gabriella and maneuver the politics of a Swedish diplomat--while also falling in love. November 2015. Klara Walldéen returns to the Stockholm archipelago to bury her beloved grandfather, her best friend Gabriella by her side. What should be a trip of mourning and...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling—for fans of the celebrated crime fiction of Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton.
Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies beheaded in a posh suburban home—a...
Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies beheaded in a posh suburban home—a...
5) Knock knock
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Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 8
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Description
"The #1 international-bestselling thriller that tells the electrifying story of a police inspector and a former criminal informant in a race against time as they attempt to unravel past and present secrets. Seventeen years ago, Criminal Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered, and the only survivor--and witness--was the five-year-old daughter. The girl was placed in the witness protection program,...
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An intricately plotted and brilliantly conceived stand-alone sequel to the international bestseller The Swimmer that turns the hottest political topics of our times into a complex, resonant thriller in the vein of John LeCarré.
Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: there are riots erupting on
...7) What we owe
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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A compressed, visceral novel about exile, dislocation, and the emotional minefields between mothers and daughters"--
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Out of the frozen depths of a forest in Omberg, Sweden, a woman stumbles onto the road. Her arms are covered with scratches, her feet are bare, and she has no memory of what has happened. Local police identify her as psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen who, together with her partner, had been helping them investigate a cold case of a young woman's murder. Hanne begins to recover, but cannot recall anything about where her partner is, or...
9) Pen 33
Author
Series
Ewert Grens thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Serial killer and child molester Bernt Lund escapes from prison custody, leading Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens to the most disturbing case of his career.
11) Three hours
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Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
DCI Ewert Grens discovers the dead bodies of seventy-three refugees, suffocated in a container-the nameless victims of human trafficking. Grens goes in search of Piet Hoffmann in Niger, when he finds a Hoffman's fingerprint in the container. Hoffmann is inflitrating the brutal trafficking ring responsible for the container corpses, but Gren's investigation increases the danger for him, his family as well as countless vulnerable people. All their lives...
12) The father
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Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The Father, part one of a two-novel series, is based on an extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed a string of audacious bank robberies in Sweden that paralyzed the nation in the 1990's. None of the young men, all of whom were under the age of twenty-four, had ever committed a crime before. But by the time their incredible lawless spree had come to an end, they would be considered criminal masterminds. This unforgettable, heartbreaking...
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Christine Burgin
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
At the turn of the century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian, acknowledged fathers of twentieth-century abstraction. Like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was interested in the invisible relationships that scientists at the turn of the century were discovering shape...