sweden

Ex-convict Piet Hoffman--a family man, a rising member of Stockholm's Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant--is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.

Linda Wallander's first job as a police officer is complicated by her father's presence on the police force, until Linda's childhood friend disappears, forcing the father and daughter to work together and find the missing girl before it is too late.

In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.

A biography of the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.

Eva Gabrielsson describes her relationship with Swedish writer Stieg Larsson from when they met at age eighteen until Larsson's death at age fifty, discussing Larsson's writing process, and sharing other aspects of his life.

An English translation of a Swedish novel in which homicide detective Ann Lindell comes off of maternity leave to join her colleague Ola Haver in investigating the murder of John Jonsson, a tropical fish expert with a checkered past.

Describes the Wall Street disaster brought about by Swedish financier Ivan Krueger, who bankrupted millions of people in the 1930s in a scheme to lend money from American investors to European governments in exchange for matchstick monopolies.

Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.