Christoffer Carlsson Living & the Dead Hardback Book

A beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one communitys secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD FOR BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF DENMARKS PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL All the makings of a pageturning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare FREDRIK BACKMANResembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime Stylistically classy and psychologically richTHE TIMESAn epic, ambitious literary crime novel FINANCIAL TIMES Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigationsNEW YORK TIMESOn a cold, snowy winters night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together, in a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, they imagine they will remain so forever. The next morning, each is a key suspect in a murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other. The hunt for Mikael Sderstrms killer will take over twenty years. It will see a detective leave the force forever. And it wont end until a second body is found, and the tightknit communitys secrets are finally brought to light . . . His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusionWALL STREET JOURNALCarlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the WesternANTHONY MARRAMagnificent, epic, immediateA. J. FINN... | Christoffer Carlsson Living & the Dead Hardback Book