Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths / Nordic literature

The Boy in the Suitcase

Nina Borg #1

by Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to...

Death of a Nightingale

Nina Borg #3

by Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis

From the Nordic noir duo who brought you The New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase comes a chilling new thriller with a mystery seventy-years in the making.

Nina. Natasha. Olga. Three women united...

Death of the Demon

Hanne Wilhelmsen #3

by Anne Holt

In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution’s steely director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav’s eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered...

The Day Is Dark

Thóra Gudmundsdóttir #4

by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

There’s something out there…

“Iceland’s answer to Stieg Larsson.”

--Daily Telegraph

“Iceland’s crime queen.”

--The Scotsman

“Engaging, fresh, and exciting.”

--James Patterson

Yrsa Sigurdardóttir...

The Golden Calf

Irene Huss #5

by Helene Tursten

In this fifth installment in the critically acclaimed Irene Huss series, three men are found brutally executed in one of Goteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods. All three men were involved in an online poker...

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

Hanne Wilhelmsen #2

by Anne Holt

THE SECOND BOOK IN EDGAR-NOMINATED ANNE HOLT’S INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES FEATURING DETECTIVE HANNE WILHELMSEN, LAST SEEN IN BLIND GODDESS

IT is only the beginning of May but in Oslo a brutal...

Invisible Murder

Nina Borg #2

by Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis

The second installment in the bestselling Danish crime series starring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg, following Fall 2011's New York Times–bestselling The Boy in the Suitcase

In the ruins of an abandoned Soviet...

Blind Goddess: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel

Hanne Wilhelmsen #1

by Anne Holt & Tom Geddes

THE FIRST BOOK IN EDGAR-NOMINATED ANNE HOLT’S INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES FEATURING DETECTIVE HANNE WILHELMSEN, LAST SEEN IN 1222

 A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts...

Night Rounds: A Detective Inspector Irene Huss Investigation

Irene Huss #2

by Helene Tursten

Irene Huss is a former Ju-Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. And now she’s back with...

1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel

Hanne Wilhelmsen #9

by Anne Holt

From Norway’s bestselling female crime writer comes a suspenseful locked-room mystery set in an isolated hotel in Norway, where guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm start turning up dead.

A TRAIN...