The Westport Library Resource Guides: World Literature in Translation: Languages Sw to Z

Translated from Swedish

After She's Gone by Camilla Grebe; Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Translator)
Out of the frozen depths of a forest in Omberg, Sweden, a woman stumbles onto the road.... Local police identify her as psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen who, together with her partner, had been helping them investigate a cold case of a young woman's murder.
The Antarctica of Love by Sara Stridsberg; Deborah Bragan-Turner (Translator)
This is a riveting story from a woman at the margins-her murder, her short but full life, and the world that moves on after she is gone,
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman; Neil Smith (Translator)
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson; Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have raped a woman… By the time policeman Sven Jörgensson reaches the victim, she's taking her last breath. For Sven and his son Vidar, this will prove a decisive moment. On the same night, Sweden plunges into a state of shock after the murder of the prime minister. Could there possibly be a connection?
Carnality by Lina Wolff; Frank Perry (Translator)
A writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.
Dark Music by David Lagercrantz; Ian Giles (Translator)
Professor Hans Rekke is a world authority on interrogation techniques. Micaela Vargas is a street-smart police officer, the daughter of Chilean political refugees, who grew up in the projects on the outskirts of Stockholm and has two brothers on the wrong side of the law. Together they need to find a killer.
The Details by Ia Genberg; Kira Josefsson (Translator)
An intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past, her memories laid bare in vivid detail as her body temperature rises.

An Elderly Lady Is up to No Good by Helene Tursten; Marlaine Delargy (Translator)
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder.
Eighteen Below by Stefan Ahnhem
This is a terrifying story of stolen identity and serial murder. A tragic accident. The body recovered from the wreck is that of Peter Brise, one of the city's richest tech entrepreneurs.
Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman; Ian Giles (Translator)
The landline rings as Agneta is waving off her grandchildren. Just one word comes out of the receiver: 'Geiger'. For decades, Agneta has always known that this moment would come, but she is shaken. She knows what it means.
Lazarus by Lars Kepler; Neil Smith. (Translator)
he latest installment in the internationally best-selling Joona Linna series sees the Swedish detective on the trail of the worst serial killer he's seen yet. Across the continent, someone is brutally murdering Europe's worst criminals.
The Mountain King by Anders de la Motte
: Criminal inspector Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö’s Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry when, in the middle of a high-profile kidnapping case, management relegates her to the so-called Department of Lost Souls—the unit for odd, cold cases banished to the basement of the police station.
The Night of the Fire by Kjell Eriksson; Paul Norlen (Translator)
Police inspector Ann Lindell has left the Uppsala police and is living a quiet life, producing local cheese in a small town in Uppland. But life in the country is not as idyllic as it seems. On New Year's Eve someone sets fire to the former village school which is now a home for asylum seekers, and three people are killed.
A Question Mark Is Half a Heart by Sofia Lundberg; Nicola Smalley (Translator)
From the author of The Red Address Book Sofia Lundberg comes a captivating story about overcoming shame and guilt, about finding oneself and the truth-and in doing so, learning how to love"-

The Resting Place by Camilla Sten; Alex Fleming (Translator)
Inheriting a house tucked away in the Swedish woods from her cruel grandmother, Eleanor, seeking the truth about her grandmother's murder and the killer, soon regrets disturbing what rests in this place with a dark past.
Silver Tears by Camilla Läckberg; Ian Giles (Translator)
In this novel of seduction, deceit, and female power, three generations of women, who have survived in hiding from the men who sought to destroy them, find that secrets always end in tears.
Winter Water by Susanne Jansson; Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
Set against a backdrop of the whispering, threatening ocean, Winter Water is an atmospheric and gripping suspense novel of the terrible things grief can make us capable of.
You Will Never Be Found by Tove Alsterdal; Alice Menzies (Translator)
Detective Eira Sjodin races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series.
Under the Storm by Christoffer Carlsson; Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator)
On a cold November night in 1994, a farmhouse burns to the ground. Inside, a young woman is found dead-murdered. To the people in the rural community of Marbäck, it becomes a reference point: a before and after.

Translated from Turkish

Endgame by Ahmet Altan; Alexander Dawe (Translator)
In Endgame, award-winning author and Turkish political dissident Ahmet Altan has crafted an enigmatic literary noir exploring the ways corruption has overtaken contemporary Turkish life.
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk; Ekin Oklap (Translator)
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire