The third novel from the bestselling Swedish author and winner of the CWA International Award 2010. For fans of Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson.
Johan Theorin's first novel, Echoes from the Dead, won The Swedish
Crime Academy's Best First Novel award in 2007, and went on to win
the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger in 2009. His second novel,
The Darkest Room, won the Best Swedish Novel 2008, and the CWA
International Dagger in 2010.
Throughout his life, Johan has been a regular visitor to the Baltic
island of land, where many of his books are set. His mother's
family - sailors, fishermen and farmers - have lived there for
centuries, nurturing the island's rich legacy of strange tales and
folklore. A journalist by profession, Johan lives in Gothenburg,
Sweden.
If you like Stieg Larsson, try a much better Swedish writer
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