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Black Lizard Books
March 2016
On Sale: February 23, 2016
480 pages ISBN: 0307907651 EAN: 9780307907653 Kindle: B0091FBQ3K Hardcover / e-Book (reprint)
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Thriller Crime | Thriller | Mystery
The irascible, obdurate, and very thirstyDetective Superintendent Evert BΓ€ck-strΓΆm of the National Murder Squad returns in a new novel from the reigning master of Scandinavian fiction. Itβs the dead of summer in the sleepy town of VΓ€xjΓΆ when twenty-year-old police cadet Linda Wallin is found lying facedown in her motherβs apartment, brutally murdered and raped. With no clear motive or suspect in sight, a series of bureaucratic mix-ups causes the National Crime Unit to send BΓ€ckstrΓΆm and his team into the countryside to solve the case. The ever-irritable BΓ€ckstrΓΆm leaves his beloved goldfish behind, checks intoa local hotel, and begins to reconstruct the night of Lindaβs murder. But with more than a few bottles in tow, and a constantly growling stomach to look after, things donβt go so well, and BΓ€ckstrΓΆm has to rely on the help of his colleagues to solve the crimeβno matter how angry that makes him.
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