DÖDSSYNDEN – MORTAL SIN
By Maria Grund
A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL is found dead in a water-filled limestone quarry on an island in the Baltic Sea. Her wrists are cut and there is rope in her hair. The number 26 is written on one of her hips with a blue marker. No traces are found around the limestone quarry. The young girl’s death is quickly dismissed as a suicide.
THE NEXT DAY the owner of an antiquarian bookstore is found dead on the other side of the island, brutally killed with a knife. Apart from the stab wound, a series of injuries are visible along the victim’s chest and throat — it looks like a large bite.
WHEN POLICE INVESTIGATOR Sanna Berling, together with her new colleague Eir Pedersen, starts investigating the antiquarian, they soon discover a disturbing connection between the two cases. In time, it becomes clear that the two deaths are only the first in a series of violent murders. Seven children appear to hold the key to the gruesome truth – a truth that is becoming increasingly personal to Sanna, more personal than she could ever have imagined.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Modernista, Sweden 2020
RIGHTS SOLD
Bulgaria, Ciela Norma
Brazil, Nova Fronteira
Czechia, Metafora/Grada
Estonia, Rahva Raamat
Finland, Otava
France, Robert Laffont
Germany, Penguin Verlag
Italy, Editrice Nord
The Netherlands, Volt/Singel Uitgevers
Poland, JK
Romania, Crime Scene Press
Russia, Eksmo
World Spanish, Trini Vergara Ed.
Film & TV, Warner Brothers
REVIEWS
A desolate, gruesome drama with a tone entirely its own.
– Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
Maria Grund has debuted with a forceful novel about an exciting heroine.
– Sundsvalls Tidning, Sweden
An impressive debut.
– Uppsala Nya Tidning, Sweden
Anyone looking for a hardboiled detective story with blood, many murders, and other horrors has a golden opportunity here.
– Ölandsbladet, Swededn
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