Tiina Nunnally
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...
2) The drowning
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
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, Detective...
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Detective Patrik Hedstrom 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 Sverin was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew--a man with something to hide...His high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has just returned to Fjallbacka with her five-year-old son--perhaps can she shed some light on who Sverin really...
4) The ravens
Author
Series
Minnesota trilogy volume 3
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a long, dark time since a gruesome discovery drew U.S. Forest Service ranger Lance Hansen into a murder investigation that is now approaching a resolution--although not to his satisfaction. In fact, the mysteries have been multiplying and getting uncomfortably close to home. On the run after a hunting expedition with his brother Andy went awry, Lance is haunted by visions of Swamper Caribou, the Ojibwe medicine man whose death a century...
Author
Series
Minnesota trilogy volume 2
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014, 2009
Language
English
Description
" A Norwegian tourist has been found murdered on the shore of Lake Superior--right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than one hundred years earlier. Four months later, the official investigation is supposedly over but still not resolved, and U.S. Forest Service officer Lance Hansen, drawn into the mystery by his grisly discovery of the body, is uncovering clues disturbingly close to home. His former father-in-law, Willy Dupree, may hold...
Author
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.
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...
Author
Series
Intercrime volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Detective Paul Hjelm is placed into an elite team of officers and sent on a mission to track down a killer who has been systematically targeting business leaders, a case that pits them against the Russian Mafia and Sweden's secret wealthy societies.
9) Doghead
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Asger is called home to Denmark to visit as his grandmother is dying. As she grows weaker, she tells him the true (or possibly true) stories of his rogue of a grandfather, the misdeeds of his father and cousins, and sets him on a treasure hunt, all haunted by his childhood vision of the Doghead.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the nearby Tokke River, a presumed suicide since his pockets...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in thirteenth-century Norway, Sigrid Undset's spellbinding masterpiece now follows the fortunes of Olav Audunssøn to the final, dramatic chapter of his life as it unfolds in Winter, the last volume of the Nobel Prize winner's tetralogy. At the end of his life, Olav continues to grapple with the guilt of his sins as he watches his children make disastrous choices and struggle to find their rightful place in a family haunted by the past"--Provided...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The initial volume in the Nobel Prize-winning author's tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway--the first new English translation in nearly a century. As a child, Olav Audunssøn is given by his dying father to an old friend, Steinfinn Toressøn, who rashly promises to raise the boy as his foster son and eventually marry him to his own daughter, Ingunn. The two children, very different in temperament, become both brother and sister and betrothed....
13) The faces
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience"--
"It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A story based on the Jewish legend of the thirty-six righteous people who protect humanity follows the sudden deaths of dozens of humanitarians who each bear a bizarre tattoo and whose untimely ends are investigated by Copenhagen detective Niels Bentzon.
Author
Series
Minnesota trilogy volume 1
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) The fir tree
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life, such as being a Christmas tree, while they were happening.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical trilogy about her troubled life in Copenhagen"--
Childhood tells the story of a misfit child's single-minded determination to become a poet. Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband....
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking comics volume 2
Publisher
Enfant, an imprint of Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The world's most beloved strong-girl fights fires, saves babies, and causes mischief at a tea party. Pippi returns to fix everything in this latest book of comics. Not only do Pippi and her friends celebrate her birthday but we meet Pipp's long lost father, The Island King." -- Page 4 of cover.