The final part of Leif GW Persson's thrilling Story of a Crime sequence which centres around the unsolved murder of Swedish prime minister, Olaf Palme
Leif G.W. Persson is Scandinavia's most renowned criminologist and
a leading psychological profiler. He has also served as an advisor
to the Swedish Ministry of Justice. Since 1991, he has held the
position of Professor at the National Swedish Police Board and is
regularly consulted as the country's foremost expert on crime.
He is the author of ten bestselling crime novels including The
Dying Detective which won both the Swedish Academy of Crime
Writers' Award for Best Crime Novel of 2010 and The Glass Key for
Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of 2010.
During his career Persson has been the recipient of many other
prestigious awards including The Piraten Award, The Swedish Academy
of Crime Writers' Award (which he has won three times), The Finnish
Whodunnit Society's Annual Award for Excellence in Foreign Crime
Writing, The Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel, and
The Danish Academy of Crime Writers' Palle Rosenkrantz Prize.
Clever and sophisticated...Has the feel of a real investigation,
carried out by convincing characters and shedding new light on this
most perplexing of crimes
*Sunday Times*
Similar to Ellroy in his American Underworld trilogy, this
criminologist and author weaves together reality and fiction when
he lets a group of honest cops once again scrutinize millions of
documents to investigate the murder case. As the conspiracy theory
develops the confusion grows. Brilliant.
*Le Parisien*
There's plenty of life in Nordic Noir as Persson reminds us.
British writers who complain about the attention given to the
Scandinavians should pick this up and see why that is
*Financial Times*
As well as being an intricately detailed cirme scenario, this is a
powerful state-of-the-nation novel. Audacious narrative strategies
are par for the course for the award-winning Scandicrims novelist
Leif Persson
*Good Book Guide*
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