I DE LUGNASTE VATTEN – STILL WATERS
BY STEN, VIVECA
It’s a hot July morning on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago. A man takes his dog for an early walk. Suddenly he makes a gruesome discovery: the body of a man, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore. Police detective Thomas Andreasson from the mainland is the first to arrive at the scene. Having spent countless summers on the island he has good local knowledge.
The man is soon identified as a Krister Berggren: a bachelor who has been missing since Easter. Nothing indicates foul play and the case is just about to be written off as an accident when a woman is found brutally murdered at the town’s hotel. It turns out she is Krister Berggren’s cousin.
Luckily Thomas’s childhood friend, lawyer Nora Linde, comes to his aid. Together they take on the seemingly impossible riddle while at the same time trying to make sense of their troubled personal lives.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Forum, Sweden, 2008.
314 pages.
RIGHTS SOLD
Arabic, Al Arabi Publishing and Distributing, Egypt
Bulgaria, Colibri
Czech Republic, Vydavatelstvi Vikend
Denmark, People’s Press
Estonia, Kirjastus Pegasus
Finland, WSOY
France, Albin Michel
Germany, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Iceland, Uppheimar
Italy, Marsilio Editore
Lithuania, Obulyos
Malayalam, Six year plan books AB
The Netherlands, Querido
Norway, Strawberry
Poland, Storytel
Portugal, Planeta
Russia, Eksmo
Serbia, Carobna Knjiga
Spain, Maeva
Sweden, Forum
Turkey, Kitap Kurdu/Andante
USA, AmazonCrossing
FILM RIGHTS
Sweden, Filmlance
REVIEWS
It is very rare that characters and stories are so precise and carefully crafted. This debut should ensure the author a place of honor in the hall of fame with her Nordic colleagues. We are eagerly awaiting more, much more.
Crimezone.nl
A wonderfully old-fashioned whodunit!
Veronica Magazine
The resolution is spectacular and unexpected.
Misdaadromans.nl
The perfect mixture of holiday idyll, murder and family tragedy.
Grazia (Italy)
An exceptionally well-written debut.
De Telegraaf
It’s a very promising debut, which makes it possible for Viveca Sten to take a spot among the best Swedish crime authors.
Dagbladet
The book is suspenseful from the first page to the last, a perfect summer read.
Skaraborgs Allehanda
In 2008, Viveca Sten’s debut crime novel “Still Waters” (I de lugnaste vatten) became an overnight success and launched her decisively onto the Swedish crime writing scene. (…) Sten is a spiritual heir of Agatha Christie, and has captured the essence of the UK crime queen in her beguiling work.
Barry Forshaw, Euro Noir
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