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The Second Deadly Sin
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One of The Times' "Best Crime Novels by Women since 2000" "Rebecka
Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and
Sarah Lund" iNews "In a television world now awash in female
coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as Rebecka"
Wall Street Journal The frozen body of a woman is found in a
fishing ark on the ice near Torneträsk in northern Sweden. She has
been brutally tortured, but the killing blow was clumsy, almost
amateur. The body is quickly identified, raising hopes of an
open-and-shut solution. But when a six-month-old suicide is
disinterred, Rebecka Martinsson and Anna-Maria Mella find
themselves investigating shocking corruption at the heart of one of
Sweden's most successful mining companies. One that has powerful
enemies of its own.
Oprah.com raved that Asa Larsson's Rebecka Martinsson is a crime
fighter who has all the needed gut insticts," and listed the series
as "Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read." In Until Thy Wrath
Be Past the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne, in
the far north of Sweden. Meanwhile, Rebecka Martinsson is working
as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna. Her sleep has been disturbed by
haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body be
connected to the ghostly young woman in her dreams? Joining forces
once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka is drawn
into a murder and missing-person investigation that becomes
entangled with old rumors of a German supply plane that
mysteriously disappeared in 1943. Shame and secrecy shroud the
locals' memories of the war, with Sweden's early collaboration with
the Nazis still a raw wound. And on the windswept shore of a frozen
lake lurks a faceless killer determined to keep the past buried
forever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow. With its
psychologically complex twists and turns, this harrowing thriller
captivates from the very first page.
Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2021 (Swedish
Crime Writers' Academy) Winner of the Storytel Award for Best
Suspense Novel 2021 Winner of the Adlibris Award for Best Suspense
Novel 2021 "A masterful storyteller . . . An astute social
commentator" Sunday Express "Larsson is one of the best current
practitioners of Scandinavian crime fiction" Financial Times
Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live
when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has
long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a
freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has
been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962:
the father of Swedish Olympic boxing champion Börje Ström.
Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case - she has
enough to worry about. But how can she ignore a dying man's wish?
When the post-mortem confirms that Pekkari, too, was murdered,
Rebecka has a red-hot investigation on her hands. But what does it
have to do with the body kept in his freezer for decades?
Meanwhile, the city of Kiruna is being torn down and moved a few
kilometres east, to make way for the mine that has been devouring
the city from below. With the city in flux, the tentacles of
organized crime are slowly taking over . . . Fragile yet fierce
Rebecka Martinsson returns in a spellbinding addition to the Arctic
Murders series, now a Walter Presents drama for television.
Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry
The novels that inspired Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders - the
major TV series "Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to
rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews "In a television world now
awash in female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human
as Rebecka" Wall Street Journal At the end of a deadly bear hunt
across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the successful hunters
are shaken by a grisly discovery. Across in Kurravaara, a woman is
murdered with frenzied brutality: crude abuse scrawled above her
bloodied bed, her young grandson nowhere to be found. Only Rebecka
Martinsson sees a connection. Dropped from the case thanks to a
jealous rival, she now stands alone against a killer who brings
death to young and old, spawned by a horrifying crime that festers
after one hundred years on ice.
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