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  • Location: Fjällbacka

The Stranger (Fjällbacka 4)

2000s: Previously titled The Gallows Bird, this is a great story about the repercussions of what effect actions of one moment can have on the…

  • Location: Helsinki

Lucifer’s Tears

2000s: The second outing for Inspector Inspector Kari Vaara of Helsinki and it’s a gruesome one. A woman has been attacked and murder by torture…

  • Location: Stockholm

Stockholm Octavo

1791 – the 18th C and and an octavo are an interesting mix and it’s always nice to travel to Stockholm – a game of…

  • Location: Malmköping, Småland, Sweden

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

2005 – A cross between Harold Fry and Forest Gump. A classic in Swedish but still as funny thanks to the translation by Rod Bradbury.…

  • Location: Stockholm

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

2000s: Old people breaking out of a Swedish care home! Robbing a bank in Götgatan? Moving (albeit slowly) around Stockholm? A book with a difference…

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The Tumbling Girl

1876: So much sass and sexiness in one book!

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