Anders Roslund
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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A gripping new mystery from
SWEDEN'S MOST ACCLAIMED CRIME FICTION DUO
Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, THREE SECONDS is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström—heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. It inaugurates Sterling's brand new Silver Oak imprint, a joint venture with Quercus Publishing dedicated
...2) Knock knock
Author
Language
English
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He thought she was safe. Then the past came knocking. Seventeen years ago, Criminal Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the scene of a brutal crime. A family had been murdered and the only survivor - and witness - was the five-year-old daughter. The girl was placed in the witness protection program and the case went cold, but years later, Grens is still haunted by the seemingly random slaying and the little girl who was spared. So when he learns that...
3) Cell 8
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Language
English
Description
An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Presumed dead by the Stockholm police -- with a couple of notable exceptions, including homicide detective Ewert Grens -- master criminal and undercover informant Piet Hoffmann is now on the run from the Swedish authorities, living with his wife and two young sons under an assumed name in South America. Hoffmann stays in touch with his former police handler, Erik Wilson, but unfortunately there is no money to be had in maintaining his unofficial...
5) Two soldiers
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blood brothers Leon and Gabriel have spent their young lives establishing a formidable criminal enterprise known as the Warriors, which is now poised to secure domination in the area. DCI Ewert Grens is investigating a recent prison break from a maximum-security facility, and discovers that the incident is linked to the Warriors. José Pereira, head of the police's Organized Crime and Gang Section in a southern suburb of Stockholm, is facing a rapidly...
6) Pen 33
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Language
English
Description
Serial killer and child molester Bernt Lund escapes from prison custody, leading Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens to the most disturbing case of his career.
7) The informer
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Ex-con and former special operations soldier Pete Koslow has been recruited by the FBI to go undercover and take down New York's most powerful crime boss. When he finds himself caught in the crossfire between the mob and the law, he's forced to return to prison. Koslow must now devise a plan to escape in order to save himself and his family"--Container.
9) Box 21
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to Sweden with the promise of better jobs and then trapped in a Stockholm brothel. What will happen when they get an unexpected chance at freedom?
10) Three hours
Author
Series
Ewert Grens-Piet Hoffmann trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
DCI Ewert Grens discovers the dead bodies of seventy-three refugees, suffocated in a container-the nameless victims of human trafficking. Grens goes in search of Piet Hoffmann in Niger, when he finds a Hoffman's fingerprint in the container. Hoffmann is inflitrating the brutal trafficking ring responsible for the container corpses, but Gren's investigation increases the danger for him, his family as well as countless vulnerable people. All their lives...
11) Rodzinny interes
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Publisher
Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Polish
Description
"Trzej bracia połączeni wyjątkowo silną więzią i trudnymi wspomnieniami z rodzinnego domu, dodatkowe wsparcie ze strony dziewczyny jednego z nich i przyjaciel z wojskowym doświadczeniem. Tyle wystarczyło, by zorganizować serię wzorowanych na operacjach militarnych napadów na banki, które ponad dwadzieścia lat temu wstrząsnęły Szwecją. Rodzinny interes to oparta na faktach powieść z mistrzowsko skonstruowaną intrygą i wciągającą...
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Polish
Description
"Leo Djuvnac is wiping up the blood in the hallway. He's fourteen and cleaning up after his dad for the last time. They're on their own now. He will be taking care of his younger brothers while their father is in jail and mother in the hospital. And he knows how to do it. He'll put on a disguise and do his first heist. Years later, the gates to the prison open and Leo is free once more. He's paid his dues for the series of brutal bank robberies he...
13) The sons
Author
Series
Made in Sweden volume Part II
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"After six years in prison, Leo Duvnjac is going free. Prosecuted for numerous crimes--including ten bank robberies, planting a bomb in Stockholm's Central Station, and pulling off northern Europe's largest-ever weapons theft--he was convicted of just two robberies (since the huge cache of automatic weapons was never found). Unreformed, Leo has spent his imprisonment plotting one final heist, but he only has a brief window following his release to...