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Richard MacAndrew (2003) The Lahti File: Level 3. Hundreds of dead fish, some unexplained deaths and a bird-less town - these newspaper reports from Finland attract interest from the British secret service. Ian Munro is sent to Lahti to investigate. But when his first contact is killed, Munro realizes that someone is trying to hide a secret. A most thrilling English course! (This is how teenagers would like to learn English!)
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Ross Macdonald (1996) The Drowning Pool. (First published in 1950) Hard-boiled novel noir filled with sex, blackmail, deceit and murder. This is the second novel in Macdonalds Lew Archer series. Complex plot, combined with psychological depth, in economic prose.
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Henning Mankell (2004) The Fifth Woman. In one of the best thrillers of the Kurt Wallander series the Swedish detective is trying to cope with the death of his father, while he struggles to make sense of a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal killings in southern Sweden. He uncovers the ties that bind these murders to killings in Algeria, many years ago.
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Henning Mankell (2006) Before the Frost. Atmospheric thriller about a religious fanatic on a murder spree. In his latest Kurt Wallander crime novel, Henning Mankell describes a secret world of religious extremists in peaceful southern Sweden, who are bent on punishing the world's sinners.
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Henning Mankell (2003) Firewall. The book starts with random, seemingly unrelated acts of violence in the town of Ystad, southern Sweden. But slowly Wallander detects that these small-town murders are part of a conspiracy in cyber terrorism targeted to collapse the world's financial system.
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Henning Mankell (2003) Faceless Killers. Shivering in the cold Swedish winter, Kurt Wallander tries to solve a savage double murder on a remote farm. In this novel, Mankell probes the underside of the liberal Swedish society with its ugly streak of anti-foreigner prejudice and hate.
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Henning Mankell (2004) The Dogs of Riga. Kurt Wallander, the stoic Swedish detective is investigating the murders of two unidentified men washed up on the Swedish coast in an inflatable dinghy. It leads him into the dangerous underworld of government corruption characteristic of Soviet-style totalitarian regimes. Scandinavian police work at the aftermath of the Soviet Union collapse.
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Henning Mankell (2007) The Man Who Smiled. Kurt Wallander of the Ystad Police Force reluctantly investigates the death of an aging attorney on a desolate road, initially considered an accident. Depressed and in danger of becoming an alcoholic, Walander, stoically battles through the complexities of the crime and his own life. A realistic alternative to the smooth action thrillers, this dark tale slowly turns into a horrific nightmare.
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Ngaio Marsh (1999) Vintage Murder. (First published 1936) This classical British murder mystery features Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard on vacation in New Zealand. Alleyn travels by train together with Carolyn Dacres, celebrated actress, and her theatrical company. When an after-performance celebration of the actors turns deadly the local small-town police is glad to have Inspector Alleyn at their help.
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Guillermo Martinez (2005) The Oxford Murders. An old lady, who worked on the Enigma Code during WWII, is found murdered in Oxford, UK. Arthur Seldom, logician and author of a book on the mathematics of serial killings solves the case - and others that soon pile up - with mathematical precision. Gödel's theorem, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and Wittgenstein's paradox are discussed, but do not break the thrill or fast pace of the book. A cerebral mystery novel.
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