%C3%85sa Larsson, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Sterling/Silveroak, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8716-4
At the start of Swedish author Larsson's stunning fourth crime novel (after The Black Path), the ghost of 17-year-old Wilma Persson describes how she was murdered during a dive beneath the ice of far-north Lake Vittangijärvi while looking for a...
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Åsa Larsson, trans. from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. Quercus/MacLehose, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-62365-139-8
In Larsson’s compelling fifth Rebecka Martinsson thriller (after 2011’s Until Thy Wrath Be Past), the prosecutor travels to the far north of Sweden to investigate a murder victim’s troubling family history. Before Sol-Britt Uusitalo was stabbed to...
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Asa Larsson, Author, Marlaine Delargy, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Delacorte $22 (310p) ISBN 978-0-385-33981-0
At the start of Larsson's solid procedural debut, neurotic, troubled Sanna Strandgård discovers the brutally butchered body of her brother, Viktor, on the floor of the church he founded in Kiruna, a provincial town in the north of Sweden....
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Asa Larsson, Author, Marlaine Delargy, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. Delacorte $22 (339p) ISBN 978-0-385-33982-7
Larsson's second novel (after 2006's Sun Storm
) takes a riveting look at religious mania, the practice of law in Sweden and crimes as dark and bloody as those in supposedly less progressive countries. Rebecka Martinsson, a tax attorney (as...
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Asa Larsson, Author, Marlaine Delargy, Translator . Delta $12 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-34101-1
In Swedish author Larsson's superb, gut-wrenching police procedural, Insp. Anna-Maria Mella and her longtime partner, Sven-Erik Stålnacke, investigate the brutal torture-murder of Inna Wattrang, head of information for Kallis Mining,...
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Asa Larsson, Author, Marlaine Delargy, Translator, Hillary Huber, Read by , read by Hillary Huber. Blackstone Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-6181-2
Huber's slightly nasal, vaguely Middle-American drawl is a strange fit for a murder mystery set in northern Sweden. I The strategy is mostly effective, though, rendering Larsson's novel about the puzzling death of a priest more familiar to...
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