Items Matching Tag 'Sweden'

Unspoken (Book Details)
On the Cover: Winter should be a quiet time on the holiday island of Gotland. But two crimes shatter the peace for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas. The first body found is Henry Dahistrom, an alchoholic photographer. He had just had a spectacular success at the races, winning eigthy thousand krona when his horse came home in the fifth race of the day. The next morning his body, badly beated,...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Book Details)
On the Cover Book 1 of the Millenium Triology. The Industrialist Henrik Vanger, head of the dynastic Vanger Corporation, is tormented by the loss of a child decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family has committed murder. The Journalist Mikael Bolmkvist delves deep into the Vanger’s past to uncover the truth behind the unsolves mystery. But someone else wants the past to...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Book Details)
On the Cover: Lisbeth Salander will have her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that nearly succeeded in deliberately destroying her life. As a traumatised victim of the care system, Slanader has learned to trust no one save herself, but this is one war she cannot wage alone. After sustaining appalling gunshot wounds to her head and her...

The Return (Book Details)
On the Cover: Van Veeteren returns ... An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren, when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head and limbs, the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification – bar one crucial detail ... Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man, a double...

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Book Details)
The cover says: The Expose – Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry The Murder - When a young couple are found dead in their Stokholm apartment, it’s...

The Pyramid (Book Details)
On the Cover: When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him;he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to...

The Man Who Went Up In Smoke (Book Details)
What it says on the cover A journalist has vanished without trace in Budapest. When Martin Beck arrives in the city to investigate, he is drawn into an Eastern European underworld in search of a man that nobody knows. What he discovers will put his life at risk. Swedish detective Inspector Martin Beck is a master of human nature and relentless in his pursuit of criminals. The Man Who Went...

Release Me (CD Details)
As featured in the recent Saab TV campaign, and heard on Radio 2, this is the debut single from Sweden's Oh Laura.