The irascible, obdurate, and very thirstyDetective Superintendent Evert Bck-strm of the National Murder Squad returns in a new novel from the reigning master of Scandinavian fiction.It's the dead of summer in the sleepy town of Vxj when twenty-year-old police cadet Linda Wallin is found lying facedown in her mother's apartment, brutally murdered and raped. With no clear motive or suspect in sight, a series of bureaucratic mix-ups causes the National Crime Unit to send Bckstrm and his team into the countryside to solve the case. The ever-irritable Bckstrm leaves his beloved goldfish behind, checks intoa local hotel, and begins to reconstruct the night of Linda's murder. But with more than a few bottles in tow, and a constantly growling stomach to look after, things don't go so well, and Bckstrm has to rely on the help of his colleagues to solve the crimeno matter how angry that makes him.
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