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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 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
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 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 Boerje Stroem.
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 . . . The sixth and final
book in Asa Larsson's internationally beloved crime series brings
the story of fragile yet fierce heroine Rebecka Martinsson to a
spellbinding close. Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry
'A breath of fresh cold air . . . a dangerous edge to gladden fans
of Lisbeth Salander' Boyd Tonkin The first in the Rebecka
Martinsson series from the million-book bestselling author, for
fans of Stieg Larsson, The Bridge and The Killing TV series. A
church in the glittering frozen wastes of northern Sweden. Inside,
a sacrifice: the body of a man - slashed to pieces, hands severed,
eyes gouged out. The victim's sister is first to discover the body
and she soon finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and
confused, she calls on an old friend: hot-shot city lawyer Rebecka
Martinsson. Can Rebecka dig beneath the surface of the community
that she once fled, and find the truth? 'A chilling plot knee-deep
in blood-spattered snow' Jim Kelly 'A labyrinthine conspiracy,
superlative storytelling' Independent A nail biting,
suspense-filled mystery' Sunday Telegraph
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Asa Larsson
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On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies
mutilated and defiled-and in the night sky, the aurora borealis
dances as the snow begins to fall....So begins Asa Larsson's
spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel
Award and an international literary sensation.
Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left
in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good
reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been
horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped
create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to
remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an
ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help her
friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is
now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she
left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit,
and confront a killer whose motives are dark, wrenching, and
impossible to guess....
"From the Hardcover edition."
'A breath of fresh cold air . . . a dangerous edge to gladden fans
of Lisbeth Salander' Boyd Tonkin From the million-book bestselling
author comes another nail-biting thriller, for fans of Stieg
Larsson, The Bridge and The Killing TV series. The murder of a
female priest sends shockwaves through the isolated community of
Kiruna. A crime that has terrifying echoes of another. Lawyer
Rebecka Martinsson returns to Kiruna to help the police, and is
soon drawn into the dead woman's world. A world of hurt and
healing, sin and sexuality, and above all, of lethal sacrifice. Can
Rebecka find the truth before she is consumed by it? 'Among the
current batch of Nordic writers, Larsson is one to be followed with
the most minute attention' Barry Forshaw, Independent 'A superior
example of Scandinavian noir' Julia Handford, Sunday Telegraph
'Larsson's laid-back style makes her unflinching probing of the icy
depths of the human heart all the more chilling' Jake Kerridge,
Telegraph Asa Larsson has sold over a million and a half books
worldwide. Her first novel, The Savage Altar, won the award for
Sweden's best first crime novel. This is her second novel starring
Rebecka Martinsson.
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 In the first thaw of spring the
body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north
of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby
Kiruna, her sleep troubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing
figure. Could the body belong to the girl in her dream? Joining
forces with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinsson will need
all her courage to face a killer who will kill again to keep the
past buried under half a century of silent ice and snow.
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