Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2021 (Swedish Crime
Writers' Academy)
Winner of the Storytel Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021
Winner of the Adlibris Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021
Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he
asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since
passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home
of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man
who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of Swedish Olympic
boxing champion Börje Ström. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a
fifty-year-old case - she has enough to worry about. But how can she
ignore a dying man's wish?
When the post-mortem confirms that Pekkari, too, was murdered, Rebecka
has a red-hot investigation on her hands. But what does it have to do
with the body kept in his freezer for decades?
Meanwhile, the city of Kiruna is being torn down and moved a few
kilometers east, to make way for the mine that has been devouring the
city from below. With the city in flux, the tentacles of organized crime
are slowly taking over . . .
The sixth and final book in Åsa Larsson's internationally beloved crime
series brings the story of fragile yet fierce heroine Rebecka Martinsson
to a spellbinding close.
Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry
