Black lies, red blood (2008) by Kjell Eriksson

Kjell Eriksson has made a huge splash around the globe with his Ann Lindell police procedural series. Now Eriksson is back with another stunning mystery packed with surprises.

In Black Lies, Red Blood, police officer Ann Lindell is great at solving crimes, but she doesn't have as much luck in her personal life. When she meets journalist Anders Brant, Ann thinks her luck has turned around. But then Anders disappears without a trace and a homeless man's body is found with Anders' phone number in the dead man's pocket. As Ann races to find Anders, she hopes that she will not be too late, and she also hopes that whatever she discovers will not break her heart.

Eriksson has been nominated for the Best Swedish Crime Novel five times, and readers will find this new book in his critically acclaimed and beloved series both shocking and intriguing. (less)

Hardcover, 320 pages

Published April 29th 2014 by Minotaur Books (first published 2008) 

 

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The blind goddess (2012) by Anne Holt

The first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt's international bestselling mystery series featuring detective Hanne Wilhelmsen.

A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. A couple of days later, Hansa Larsen, a lawyer of the shadiest kind, is found shot to death.

Soon police officers Håkon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings. They also find a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyer’s apartment. Their maverick colleague in the drugs squad, Billy T., reports that a recent rumor in the drug underworld involves drug-dealing lawyers. Now the reason why the young Dutchman insisted on having Karen Borg as a defender slowly dawns on them: since she was the one to find and report the body, she is the only Oslo lawyer that cannot be implicated in the crime. As the officers investigate, they uncover a massive network of corruption leading to the highest levels of government.
As their lives are threatened, Hanne and her colleagues must find the killer and, in the process, bring the lies and deception out into the open.  
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The risk of darkness by Susan Hill

KIRKUS REVIEW

A nightmarish case is at the center of Hill’s third book starring DCI Simon Serrailler (The Pure in Heart, 2007, etc.).
Serrailler is in Yorkshire to collaborate with the CID team on their missing-child case when they catch a lucky break. A little girl is snatched, but this time a witness identifies the car. A high-speed chase ends when Serrailler traps the suspect on a seaside ledge and finds the child safe in the car boot. The identity of the kidnapper is shocking. Although she calls herself Ed, Edwina Sleightholme is that rare bird, a female serial killer. She refuses to talk, but forensics prove that she had missing children. Now the police just need to find the bodies. Back home in Lafferton, Serrailler, a talented artist who craves more excitement in his career, is restless and unhappy. At a successful London gallery show of his work, he meets his spurned lover Diana and spends a night with her. His beloved sister Cat is furious with his selfishness and not best pleased when Serrailler is attracted to Jane Fitzroy, an Anglican priest who has just been held captive by a grief-crazed widower who thinks she is his dead wife. The widower threatens others, the bodies surface and Serrailler gets his just deserts.
Disappointingly short on mystery, but fleshes out the provocative character of Serrailler, who one hopes will do more detecting next time.

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