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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 3,480,634 ratings
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 994,442 ratings
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
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4.25 avg rating — 781,629 ratings
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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3.73 avg rating — 52,815 ratings
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
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4.01 avg rating — 95,532 ratings
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The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)
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4.03 avg rating — 153,453 ratings
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The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
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3.95 avg rating — 110,329 ratings
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The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
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4.06 avg rating — 77,178 ratings
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Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 79,809 ratings
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The Bat (Harry Hole, #1)
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3.55 avg rating — 133,236 ratings
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The Absent One (Department Q, #2)
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3.89 avg rating — 49,521 ratings
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Mind's Eye (Inspector Van Veeteren #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 12,844 ratings
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Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
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3.98 avg rating — 81,016 ratings
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Journal 64 (Department Q, #4)
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4.07 avg rating — 30,595 ratings
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The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 90,186 ratings
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Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1)
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3.55 avg rating — 27,561 ratings
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The Fifth Woman (Kurt Wallander, #6)
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4.05 avg rating — 28,667 ratings
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The Leopard (Harry Hole, #8)
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4.10 avg rating — 64,744 ratings
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The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
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3.72 avg rating — 30,931 ratings
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Police (Harry Hole, #10)
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4.24 avg rating — 49,862 ratings
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The Troubled Man (Kurt Wallander, #10)
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3.98 avg rating — 19,200 ratings
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Phantom (Harry Hole, #9)
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4.11 avg rating — 52,212 ratings
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The Hypnotist (Joona Linna, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 75,345 ratings
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Woman with Birthmark (Inspector Van Veeteren, #4)
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3.80 avg rating — 5,774 ratings
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Firewall
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3.97 avg rating — 21,109 ratings
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The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)
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3.95 avg rating — 26,378 ratings
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The Redeemer (Harry Hole, #6)
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4.09 avg rating — 50,648 ratings
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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 95,532 ratings
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Hypothermia
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3.88 avg rating — 11,945 ratings
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Redeemers
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4.99 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Chestnut Man
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4.21 avg rating — 87,418 ratings
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The Nightmare (Joona Linna, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 33,691 ratings
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Roseanna (Martin Beck, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 19,156 ratings
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The Son
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4.08 avg rating — 49,614 ratings
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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 10,875 ratings
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The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
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3.81 avg rating — 170,374 ratings
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Before the Frost (Linda Wallander #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 14,458 ratings
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Panserhjerte (Harry Hole, #8)
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4.10 avg rating — 64,744 ratings
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The White Lioness (Kurt Wallander, #3)
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3.87 avg rating — 24,209 ratings
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Firewall (Kurt Wallander, #8)
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3.97 avg rating — 21,109 ratings
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The Gallows Bird (Patrik Hedström, #4)
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3.82 avg rating — 29,732 ratings
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The Man from Beijing
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3.51 avg rating — 18,185 ratings
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The Preacher (Patrik Hedström, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 48,812 ratings
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The Hidden Child (Patrik Hedström, #5)
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4.01 avg rating — 32,949 ratings
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Double Blind: The Icelandic Manuscript Murders
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4.01 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Butterfly House (Korner and Werner, #3)
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3.79 avg rating — 12,329 ratings
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I'm Traveling Alone (Holger Munch & Mia Krüger, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 33,579 ratings
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Retribution (The Find, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Evil Beneath The Skin (The Find, #2)
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4.12 avg rating — 701 ratings
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The Fire Witness (Joona Linna, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 30,326 ratings
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The Corpse Flower (Kaldan og Schäfer, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 5,675 ratings
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The Hanging (Konrad Simonsen, #1)
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3.10 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Sun Storm (Rebecka Martinsson, #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 23,311 ratings
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Lume ohver
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4.03 avg rating — 28,300 ratings
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Nightblind (Dark Iceland, #2)
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3.76 avg rating — 10,387 ratings
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Martin Beck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 9,754 ratings
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One Step Behind
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4.11 avg rating — 22,880 ratings
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The Man on the Balcony (Martin Beck, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 8,111 ratings
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The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1)
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3.61 avg rating — 35,924 ratings
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared (Martin Beck, #5)
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3.95 avg rating — 6,272 ratings
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The Lost Boy (Patrik Hedström, #7)
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3.84 avg rating — 24,235 ratings
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Quicksand
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3.75 avg rating — 17,005 ratings
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Murder at the Savoy (Martin Beck, #6)
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3.87 avg rating — 5,869 ratings
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Death of a Nightingale (Nina Borg, #3)
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3.61 avg rating — 2,599 ratings
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The Abominable Man (Martin Beck, #7)
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4.02 avg rating — 6,094 ratings
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The Locked Room (Martin Beck #8)
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3.94 avg rating — 5,963 ratings
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The Terrorists (Martin Beck, #10)
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4.06 avg rating — 3,975 ratings
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Cop Killer (Martin Beck, #9)
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4.01 avg rating — 4,540 ratings
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My First Murder (Maria Kallio #1)
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3.34 avg rating — 3,883 ratings
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Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander, #5)
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4.08 avg rating — 25,261 ratings
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One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander, #7)
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4.11 avg rating — 22,880 ratings
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Meet Me in Malmö (Inspector Anita Sundström, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 5,657 ratings
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The Return of the Dancing Master
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3.91 avg rating — 9,960 ratings
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Red Wolf (Annika Bengtzon, #5)
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3.51 avg rating — 3,539 ratings
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Hidden in Snow (The Åre Murders, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 28,300 ratings
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Faithless (Gunnarstranda & Frølich, #7)
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3.90 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Linda, As in the Linda Murder (Evert Bäckström #1)
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3.23 avg rating — 1,997 ratings
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Girls Who Lie (Forbidden Iceland, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 5,695 ratings
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The Find (The Find, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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Armid (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #4)
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4.12 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
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Invisible Murder (Nina Borg, #2)
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3.67 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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Nordic Noir
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3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Find (The Find, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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We Know You Remember (High Coast series)
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3.64 avg rating — 7,673 ratings
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Veresidemed
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3.98 avg rating — 8,390 ratings
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A Crack in the Facade: A Norwegian Noir
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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End of Summer (Seasonal Quartet #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 3,767 ratings
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Võtmetunnistaja
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3.54 avg rating — 2,683 ratings
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Εκτελεστές δίχως πρόσωπο (Wallander, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 79,809 ratings
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Midwinter Blood
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3.49 avg rating — 6,748 ratings
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Verekuu (Harry Hole #13)
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4.18 avg rating — 27,359 ratings
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Last Rituals (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #1)
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3.59 avg rating — 12,372 ratings
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Oru vari
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4.16 avg rating — 9,999 ratings
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Bad Blood (A-gruppen/Intercrime, #2)
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3.69 avg rating — 2,547 ratings
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Cold as Hell (An Áróra Investigation, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 4,684 ratings
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Blackout (Dark Iceland, #2)
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3.66 avg rating — 10,486 ratings
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The Harbor (Kørner and Werner, #4)
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3.76 avg rating — 6,567 ratings
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Silenced (Ice and Crime Book 2)
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4.03 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Kreenis
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4.10 avg rating — 3,447 ratings
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Musselstranden
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3.58 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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If a librarian who uses this list, I would think that Mudbound (#60) and Little Fires Everywhere (#57) should be removed as neither of them have a Scandinavian setting.