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Nordic noir is a subgenre of crime fiction set in Scandinavian countries.
Updated September 19, 2022
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The girl with the dragon tattoo
Larsson, Stieg
Paper Book
A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about...
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Faceless killers : a mystery
Mankell, Henning
Paper Book
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander * From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and...
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The snowman
Nesbø, Jo
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In the seventh book in the Harry Hole series, Inspector Harry Hole is tested to the very limits of his sanity by a killer with a strange signature: a snowman. One night, after the year's first snowfall, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared....
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The keeper of lost causes
Adler-Olsen, Jussi
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Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen. Carl Mørck used to be one of Denmark's best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed...
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The hypnotist
Kepler, Lars.
Paper Book
In frigid Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate. The killer is at large, and the only witness is the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. With the child wounded and in shock, Linna enlists Dr. Erik Maria...
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Roseanna
Sjöwall, Maj
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With a New Introduction by Henning Mankell. The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ("the best writers of police procedurals in the world"), finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely...
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Sun storm
Larsson, Åsa
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WINNER OF SWEDEN'S BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL AWARD * In the land of silence and snow, the killing has begun . . . Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return:...
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The chestnut man : a novel
Sveistrup, Søren
Paper Book
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES If you find one, he's already found you .... From the creator of The Killing, "a full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson" (A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window). Winner of the Barry Award for Best First...
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The forgotten girls
Blædel, Sara.
Paper Book
The Forgotten Girls The body of an unidentified woman has been discovered in a remote forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. Louise Rick, the new commander of the Missing Persons Department,...
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Engelskalt : Thriller
Bjørk, Samuel
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The darkness
Ragnar Jónasson
Paper Book
Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After...
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The gilded cage
Läckberg, Camilla
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'A sexy, sensational novel with intoxicating vengeance and an unexpected tenderness' No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter All that glitters... People would kill to have Faye Adelheim's life. She lives in an ultra-swanky apartment in the most...
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The lost village
Sten, Camilla
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One day in 1959, an entire village of people disappeared--leaving behind only the broken body of a woman in the town square, and an abandoned newborn in a schoolroom. No one knows why they vanished. No one's been there since. Until now. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with...
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The witch hunter
Seeck, Max
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A shocking murder in an affluent Helsinki suburb has ties to witchcraft and the occult in this thrilling U.S. debut from Finnish author Max Seeck. A bestselling author's wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black...
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Hunting game
Tursten, Helene
Paper Book
Embla Nystrom, Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden and talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic welterweight, is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to attend the annual moose hunt with her family and friends. But when Embla arrives in rural Dalsland, she...
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We know you remember : a novel
Alsterdal, Tove
Paper Book
"Beautifully elegiac and intricately plotted, this is Nordic noir at its best."--People Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel * Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year * Shortlisted for the Best Swedish Book of the Year Award * One of People Magazine's Best Books of Fall...
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The heart keeper
Dahl, Alex
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Critically acclaimed author Alex Dahl explores how love can turn darkly sinister when a desperate mother looks to reconnect with her lost daughter in this riveting Norwegian set psychological suspense novel. Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart. <...
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