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Racial tension and immigration loom large in Indridason’s Icelandic thriller. The intrepid and cerebral Erlendur Sveinsson returns with his crack, if frustrating detectives Sigurdur Oli and Elinborg, this time to investigate the shocking murder of a ten-year-old immigrant boy.

Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep investigates a mysterious snuff film in which the victim is a woman whom he had once loved obsessively, following a haunted trail that leads to Bangkok’s most exclusive men’s club.

When a dead woman turns up on a frozen lake, her body bearing unmistakable signs of torture, Inspector Anna-Maria Mella enlists attorney Rebecka Martinsson to help her unravel a complicated web of dark secrets, perversion, obsession, and murder.

Bringing his fiancé to his island home to meet his parents, Inspector Jimmy Perez is embroiled in a case involving a murdered local celebrity only to discover that the chief suspects are people close to him.

Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly reclusive, suspicious, and aggressive, until he finds himself the prime suspect in a series of recent killings.

With his wife slowly emerging from years in a coma, journalist Philip Dryden is confronted by a series of deaths among people who are freezing to death in the Arctic temperatures, deaths that may not be accidental.

Inspector Ann Lindell races against time to solve a murder investigation involving a man who may have retaliated against a restaurant owner who caused the downfall of two brothers.

Detective Stella Mooney investigates a series of crimes after the corpse of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside, with a bizarre message scrawled across her back, and a man is discovered by the river with his throat slashed.

Just outside Reykjavik, Iceland, the draining of Lake Kleifarvatn uncovers a skeleton tied to a Cold War Russian radio device. Police inspector Erlendur and his subordinates Elinborg and Oli investigate what is obviously a homicide.

Twenty years after a little boy vanishes without a trace from the remote Swedish island of Åland, his grandfather receives a package containing the worn shoe of a child, sending his mother on a desperate quest to find her son, a search that becomes entangled with the murderous rampage of a serial killer and a mythic island figure.

It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. The dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.

Planning to run away with his girlfriend to London in the hopes of escaping poverty, Frank concludes he has been dumped when Rosie fails to join him and is astonished when Rosie’s suitcase and evidence of foul play are discovered more than twenty years later.

Years after the wrenching accidental death of her teenage daughter and her emotionally charged divorce from her husband, Ruth is shattered when her second daughter disappears upon reaching her first daughter’s age, a situation that prompts investigating officer Helen Walker to seek a connection.

Writer Erica Falck’s best childhood friend, with whom she lost touch, dies suddenly, apparently by her own hand. As Erica, in tandem with another childhood friend (and eventual love interest), local copper Patrik Hedström, look into the circumstances further, they find that the explanation is not so simple. They uncover secrets that have been hidden for decades.

When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl’s grave. Inspector Erlendur discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime, a rape. Did the old man’s past come back to haunt him?

Investigating a long-unsolved murder when a witness uncovers blocked memories, Special Homicide Investigation Team member J.P. Beaumont infiltrates a band of powerful conspirators who will go to any lengths to hide the truth.

In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of 19 people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the 19th-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case’s eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers.

Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he’s been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway’s dark past when members of the nation’s government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany.

In the midst of preparing for the midsummer tourist season, the island of Gotland is rocked by the brutal killings of a young woman and her dog, a crime that becomes only the first as a serial killer terrorizes tourists and locals alike and brings Inspector Anders Knutas into an alliance with journalist Johan Berg to find the murderer before more women die.