The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to
Franco's Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the
latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson's award-winning series.
Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls
to Franco's brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the
murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas
women's prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken
from her.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: a wealthy family is found savagely murdered in
their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been
slaughtered, Aliénor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK's Scotland Yard,
rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked by the massacre.
Profiler Emily Roy joins forces with Aliénor and soon finds herself on
the trail of a monstrous and prolific killer. Little does she realise
that this killer is about to change the life of her colleague,
true-crime writer Alexis Castells. Joining forces once again, Roy and
Castells' investigation takes them from the Swedish fertility clinics of
the present day back to the terror of Franco's rule and the horrifying
events that took place in Spanish orphanages under its rule.
Terrifying, vivid and recounted at breakneck speed, Blood Song is not
only a riveting thriller and an examination of corruption in the
fertility industry but a shocking reminder of the atrocities of Spain's
dictatorship, in the latest, stunning instalment in the award-winning
Roy and Castells series.
