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Forthcoming, due October

The Living and the Dead

Due .
Penguin, 400 pages.
ISBN: 9781405980531


Regular price £9.99 GBP
Coming Soon!

This title will be published on . It will be available for pre-order from Gumshoe Books six weeks in advance of publication.


On a cold, snowy winter's 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 Söderström's killer will take over twenty years. It will see a detective leave the force forever.

And it won't end until a second body is found, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light...

The Living and the Dead received several prestigious rewards, including the Glass Key for best Nordic Crime novel (2024), and Best Swedish Crime Novel (2023).


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