Leif G.W. Persson

Backstrom

1 - He Who Kills the Dragon (Jan-2015)
2 - Linda--As in the Linda Murder (Feb-2016)
3 - The Sword of Justice (Jun-2018)

Story of a Crime

1 - Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (Sep-2010)
2 - Another Time, Another Life (Mar-2012)
3 - Falling Freely As If in a Dream (Oct-2012)

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  Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End
  

  • Sep-2010
  • / Mystery
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  Story of a Crime - 1
  

  The first novel in a trilogy that has become the defining account of the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme -- an event that still haunts the collective Swedish memory. Beginning with the death of an unknown American ...

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  Another Time, Another Life
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / Mystery
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  Story of a Crime - 2
  

  In 1975 , six young people stormed the West German embassy in Stockholm, taking the entire staff hostage. They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader- Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany, but twelve hours into the s...

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  Falling Freely As If in a Dream
  

  • Oct-2012
  • / Mystery
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  Story of a Crime - 3
  

  From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction -- and one of the best crime writers of our time -- a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars M...

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  He Who Kills the Dragon
  

  • Jan-2015
  • / Police Procedural
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  Backstrom - 1
  

  From a master of Scandinavian crime fiction--the first in a brilliant series of novels centered around the investigations of one irascible, obdurate, and very thirsty Swedish police officer: Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström of the National ...

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  Linda--As in the Linda Murder
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Police Procedural
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  Backstrom - 2
  

  The irascible, obdurate, and very thirsty Detective Superintendent Evert Bäckström of the National Murder Squad returns in a new novel from the reigning master of Scandinavian fiction. It’s the dead of summer in the sleepy town of Växjö when...

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  The Dying Detective
  

  • May-2017
  • / Police Procedural
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  LARS MARTIN JOHANSSON is a living legend. Cunning and perceptive, always one step ahead, he was known in the National Criminal Police as “the man who could see around corners.” But now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days ...

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  The Sword of Justice
  

  • Jun-2018
  • / Thriller
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  Backstrom - 3
  

  In the magnificent third installment of the internationally bestselling Bäckström series, the irascible detective becomes entangled in an investigation with -- incredibly -- strange ties to Tsar Nicholas II, Winston Churchill, and Vladimir Putin. A...

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