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(0)Laurie Thompson
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Joel, now nearly twelve and living with his father in a small town in 1957 Sweden, as he is run over by a bus and survives without a scratch, then sets out to do a good deed in gratitude for this miracle.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, January 1960 nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin's Andren grandparents, and an Andren family from Nevada are among the victims. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andren ancestor, a gang master on the American transcontinental railway, that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
In this case, it is Detective Kurt Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done that brings the truth to light.
On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When Janek Mitter wakes up from a night of too much alcohol and sex, he must break into the locked bathroom, where he finds his wife dead in the bathtub. Suffering from amnesia as a result of his drinking, he falls into a lethargic state that lasts throughout his murder trial, conviction, and imprisonment in a mental hospital. Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren launches a new investigation when Mitter is murdered.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It's a sweltering summer in Sweden and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is long overdue for a holiday when a secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation. One of its members, a girl on the cusp of adolescence, is found dead in the forest near their holiday camp, brutally raped and strangled. The members of the Pure Life choose to remain silent about the incident rather than defend themselves.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a killer linked to a hit-and-run and a possible second murder proves increasingly unstable, a personally affected Van Veeteren comes out of retirement to face the greatest trial of his career.
In the middle of a damp, dark night a young man is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriend's house. The driver, drunk, leaves the body by the side of the road, and tries to put the murder out of his mind-- until a blackmail note arrives, setting into...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...