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WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) • WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF DENMARK’S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL
One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence.
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Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.
The hunt for the killer will take more than twenty years. It will see the lead detective leave the force forever. And it won’t end until a second body turns up in similar circumstances, and the tight-knit community’s secrets are finally brought to light.
In The Living and the Dead, renowned criminologist Christoffer Carlsson masterfully transports us to the fields and forests of western Sweden, a region of farmers and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit—a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open and where no one is entirely innocent.
In The Living and the Dead, renowned criminologist Christoffer Carlsson masterfully transports us to the fields and forests of western Sweden, a region of farmers and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit—a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open and where no one is entirely innocent.
Review:
Translated Nordic mysteries can sometimes take a might to sink your teeth into, but once you get there, they tend to be age turners, and this book is no exception! Sander and Killian seem to be typical bored teenagers, who left a party intoxicated and then later when questioned by police about a suspicious death, have very different answers for what happened and where they were. The officers at the time questioned everyone at the party. But the there were too many secrets around that night, and the truth never came out. years later fresh eyes are looking int o the previous investigation and the disaster that occurred right after. And now, secrets are spilling and some one doesn't want the truths to come out. A back and forth in time twisty mystery, this one will keep you reading late into the night!
About the Author:
Christoffer Carlsson was born in 1986 on the west coast of Sweden. He holds a PhD in criminology from the University of Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s leading crime experts. Carlsson is the youngest winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, voted by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy, and has also been awarded the prestigious Glass Key award, given to the best Scandinavian crime novel of the year.
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