Search Results: SWEDEN from Murder By The Book

New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Press, 2005. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. She's living with her father in the meantime and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. She will have to work with him, too: her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police. But soon Linda Wallander is no longer bored. She is deeply embroiled in the disappearance of her childhood friend, Anna, and, understandably, she makes a few rookie mistakes - which may just prove life-threatening.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY: The New Press, 2000. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. This is the first of the series which introduces Police Inspector Kurt Wallander, hard-drinker, opera-lover and a failure in love. A contemporary Sweden driven by violence and racial prejudice. A unique mixture of American Noir and almost existential European melancholia. Mankell won the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature for this book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: Seal Press Seattle: WA 1988, 1988. 1st US ed. [Originally published in Sweden in 1983] Oversize trade paperback, reading crease else about fine. Part of the International Women's Crime series and the 1st of her books published in the US. Stockholm area. A Provocative mystery that tackles misogyny in a totally new and surprising way. In this contemporary mystery set in Sweden, the details of the random murders of seven men are told through the chatty, off-hand narrative of husband and wife freelance journalists who follow developments with the hope of obtaining exclusive material for a book. 1st Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket. Book.

N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1973. First American edition, so stated, 2nd printing. Page edges lighty age spotted else about fine in price clipped dust jacket, lightly sunned at spine. There are two investigations in this, the 8th Martin Beck title. A special squad is looking into a rash of bank robberies. And Martin Beck is working by himself on a classic locked room mystery. A Stockholm bank was robbed by a young woman who shot and killed a bank customer during the holdup, and the police force is scrambling to find the bank robber. Detectives we know and love from previous books: most notably Beck's able associates Kollberg and Larsson, but also a trigger-happy junior, are on the cast. Meanwhile Martin Beck is just back from fifteen months of recuperation from a bullet to the chest. The locked room mystery is a kind of therapeutic welcome-back gift from the homicide squad. It's a puzzle. A pensioner who locked and bolted himself into his room, and locked or taped both windows, has been shot… Read More

N.Y.: Pantheon, 2012. 1st American Edition, 2012, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Intendent Münster, Inspector Van Veeteren’s right-hand man, and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno take center stage in the latest shocking thriller in Håkan Nesser’s internationally bestselling series. The final day of Waldemar Leverkuhn’s life begins auspiciously: With three friends, he wins a modest sum in the lottery. But it ends, after a celebratory dinner, with him belligerent, drunk, and stumbling home to his bed, where he is brutally stabbed to death with a carving knife. The case seems to be going nowhere, until the reserved, weary widow confesses to the killing. When the Leverkuhns’ formidable neighbor goes missing, and then turns up gruesomely murdered, Münster and his team find a few, wispy clues that suggest her death is connected to Leverkuhn’s--clues that lead to a dark and… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2003. 1st prtg. A fine unread copy of the trade paperback. Publisher's sheet laid in. 1st Prtg. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Press, 2004. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. With two full-page maps. Another in the fine effort by the writer of the interntionally aclaimed Kurt Wallander series. December 12, 1945. Nazi Germany lies in ruins as a British warplane lands in Buckeburg. A man carrying a small black bag quickly disembarks and travels to Hamelin, where he disappears behind the prison gates. Early the next day, England's most experienced hangman executes twelve war criminals. Fifty-four years later, retired policeman Herbert Molin spends another sleepless night on his remote farm in Harjedalen, Sweden. But it is this night when the long-dread shadows from his past finally emerge to exact revenge. After Molin is found brutally slaughtered - literally whipped to death - the police discover strange tracks in the blood on the floor...as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: New Press, 1999. 1st printing. A fine copy of the trade paperback. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. The second Kurt Wallander adventure from this talented writer to be translated into English. CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD WINNER for Best Novel.; Also Won BEST CRIME NOVEL Of The Year Award in Sweden and France's Prix Mystere de la Critque. Sweden. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Trade Paperback.

N.Y.: Pantheon Books, 1976. 1st American edition, so stated, November 1976. Marroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine very bright. Very tiny stain at front endpaper, else near fine in dust jacket, darkened along edges, small damp stain at bottom, lightly soiled, not price clipped, $7.95 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Dust jacket artwork by James Barkley. The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. An American senator is visiting Stockholm and Martin Beck must lead a team to protect him from an international gang of terrorists. However, in the midst of the fervor created by the diplomatic visit, a young, peace-loving woman is accused of robbing a bank. Beck is determined to prove her innocence, but gets trapped in the maze of police bureaucracy. To complicate matters a millionaire pornographer has been bludgeoned to death in his own bathtub. Filled with the twists and turns and the pulse pounding excitement that are the hallmarks… Read More

N.Y.: Silver Oak, 2010. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Near Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 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. Piet Hoffman, a top secret operative for the Swedish police, is about to embark on his most dangerous assignment yet: after years spent infiltrating the Polish mafia, he's become a key player in their attempt to take over amphetamine distribution inside Sweden's prisons. To stop them from succeeding, he will have to go deep cover, posing as a prisoner inside the country's most notorious jail. But when a botched drug deal involving Hoffman results in a murder, the investigation is assigned to the brilliant but haunted Detective Inspector Ewert Grens--a man who never gives up until he's cracked the case. Grens's determination to find the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1998. 1st US edition, January 1998, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. The murder of a well-known citizen in a remote Lapland village leads Constable Torsson into a web of small-town secrets hidden by the winter darkness and snow.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.