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A Conference in Stockholm

A Conference in Stockholm
  • Author(s): Kathy Harter
  • Location(s): Stockholm, Eastern Europe, New York City (NYC), Oxford, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A noted climate activist is about to name names at a symposium in Stockholm. CIA agents Joshua Daine and Valerie Rhodes are sent on a simple retrieval mission to pick up classified information. She is kidnapped, he is shot,...

Bad Apples – (Tuva 4)

Bad Apples – (Tuva 4)
  • Author(s): Will Dean
  • Location(s): Värmland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime
  • Era(s): Current

It only takes one… A murder A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated A festival A cultish hilltop community ‘celebrates’ Pan Night after the apple harvest A race against time As Visberg closes ranks to keep its deadly...

PARIS NIGHTS MY YEAR AT THE MOULIN ROUGE

PARIS NIGHTS MY YEAR AT THE MOULIN ROUGE
  • Author(s): Cliff Simon, Loren Stephens
  • Location(s): Paris, South Africa, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1989-1990

“ holds a loving regard for both Africa and Paris, expounding on the various riches of both lands… the Paris lights and what they bestowed upon the author will mesmerize the reader.” —Manhattan Book Review Little did Cliff...

Stockholm Diaries, Caroline

Stockholm Diaries, Caroline
  • Author(s): Rebecca Hunter
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): present

2016 Winner of the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award Steamy – for 18+!  But nothing that’s non-traditional. Just sexy. A pro hockey player with a rough reputation. An American looking for a taste of adventure. A chance to...

The Carrier

The Carrier
  • Author(s): Mattias Berg
  • Location(s): Sweden, Belgium, Sicily, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2013

Erasmus Levine has a job like no other He travels with the President of the United States at all times, and holds in his hands the power to obliterate life as we know it. He is the man with...

The German Girl

The German Girl
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Helsingør, Malmö
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary - Looking back to WWII

‘Our parents were taken. And if we go home, the Nazis will take us too…’ Hamburg 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta is hurrying home from school with her twin brother Jurgen. The mood in the city is tense – synagogues have...

The Lazarus Solution

The Lazarus Solution
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden, Norway
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): WW2

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway. Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that...

Where Ravens Roost

Where Ravens Roost
  • Author(s): Karin Nordin
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contmporary

The raven cawed at him, craning its neck unnaturally. As it dug its hooked beak into the mess of dried grass and twigs that made up its nest, a shiny glimmer reflected off a low-hanging bulb. Kjeld edged closer...

Yule Island

Yule Island
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Storholmen, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and Scandinavia’s deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of French Noir returns with a chilling, utterly...

Block 46

Block 46
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Falkenberg, Hampstead, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea’s. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In...

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