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Arnaldur Indriason
Arctic Chill
In this new extraordinary thriller from Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason, the Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been found: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Ice land’s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. Meanwhile, the boy’s murder forces Erlendur to confront the tragedy in his own past. Soon, facts are emerging from the snow-filled darkness that are more chilling even than the Arctic night. Longlisted for the International IMPAC Literary Award
344 p. 2009
Adult Mystery Book ARNALDU
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Atkinson, Kate
When Will There be Good News?
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency... These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls "an absolute must-read."
388 p. 2008
Adult Fiction Book ATKINSO
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Barbery, Muriel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building's tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.
325 p. 2008
Adult Fiction Book BARBERY
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Dymmoch, Michael Allen
White Tiger
John Thinnes, Chicago police detective, and Jack Caleb, psychiatrist, both veterans of the Vietnam War, seek the reason behind the murder shooting death of a Vietnamese immigrant woman in Chicago's Little Saigon, and what her possible connection could have been to White Tiger, the only known name of a mysterious, vicious, and savage drug dealer and all-around criminal who terrorized even the toughest thugs in Vietnam. Now he has been sighted in Chicago.
viii, 311 p. 2005
Adult Fiction Book DYMMOCH
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Fossum, Karin
He Who Fears the Wolf
Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. Fossum once again provides extraordinary insight into marginalized lives and richly evokes the atmosphere she captured so brilliantly in Don't Look Back.
271 p. 2005
Adult Mystery Book FOSSUM
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French, Tana
In the Woods
"As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home from play. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent wood. When the polic arrive, they find only one child, gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same wood, he and Detective Cassie Maddox -- his partner and closest friend -- find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery.
429 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book FRENCH
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Heg, Peter
Borderliners
A novel of psychological suspense on three children, misfits in a boarding school which uses them as guinea pigs for a secret experiment by the Danish government. They turn the tables by conducting an experiment of their own. By the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow.
277 p. 1994
Adult Fiction Book HOEG
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Heg, Peter
Smilla's Sense of Snow
In his first novel to be published in English, Danish author Hoeg offers readers a wonderfully original, elegantly crafted, ominously savage story. The plot is cryptically clever, beginning with the death of a six-year-old boy and ending with the discovery of an international smuggling ring. The pervasive violence--both to the body and to the soul--is recounted so matter-of-factly as to be doubly chilling, and the characters are as mesmerizing, as enigmatic, and as engrossing as any populating the pages of recent crime fiction. (Reviewed July 1993)0374266441Emily Melton
453 p. 1993
Adult Fiction Book
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Lackberg, Camilla
The Ice Princess
After she returns to her hometown to learn that her friend, Alex, was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, biographer Erica Falck researches her friend's past in hopes of writing a book and joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.
393 p. 2010
Adult Fiction Book
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Larsson, Asa
The Black Path
A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide in a masterpiece of suspense.
384 p. 2008
Adult Mystery Book LARSSON
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Larsson, Stieg
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age -- and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation.
465 p. 2008
Adult Fiction Book
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Mankell, Henning
Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery
"Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she is staying with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out: her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police force, and the two of them will soon be reluctant colleagues. Linda's boredom doesn't last long. Soon she is deeply involved in the inexplicable disappearance of her childhood friend Anna.
383 p. 2005
Adult Mystery Book MANKELL
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Mankell, Henning
The Man from Beijing
Hudiksvall, January 2006. Police find eighteen people massacred in a small village. They think it's the work of a mad man, but Birgitta and August believe they were killed by the same person who killed their mother.
365 p. 2010
Adult Fiction Book MANKELL
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Mankell, Henning
Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery
In Sweden, detective Kurt Wallander hunts for a serial killer who scalps his victims. The story is told from two points of view, that of Wallander and that of the killer--a boy. By the author of The White Lioness.
349 p. 1999
Adult Mystery Book MANKELL
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Sjowall, Maj
The Fire Engine That Disappeared: A Martin Beck Mystery
The lightning-paced fifth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, finds Beck investigating one of the strangest, most violent, and unforgettable crimes of his career. The incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe because somehow a regulation fire-truck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what if, anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a 46-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: Martin Beck?--P. [4] of cover.
x, 213 p. 2009
Adult Mystery Book SJOWALL
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Smith, Martin Cruz
Gorky Park
Brilliant...One of the best books of the season." ASSOCIATED PRESS A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it. From the Paperback edition.
365 p. 1981
Adult Fiction Book SMITH
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Whitehead, Colson
The Intuitionist
An elevator inspector becomes the center of controversy when an elevator crashes. The inspector, Lila Mae Watson, is a black woman who inspects by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, and now she must prove her method was not at fault. A study of society's attitude to technology and a debut in fiction.
255 p. 1999
Adult Fiction Book WHITEHE
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Yrsa Sigurardottir
My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland
In this chilling follow-up to "Last Rituals," lawyer and single mother of two Thora Gudmundsdottir is once again pulled into a darker side of Iceland's history as she hunts for a savage killer.
346 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book YRSA
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