Book description
As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45 degrees,
forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linkoping
for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked and paralysed by the heat.
However, when a teenage girl is discovered naked and bleeding in the
local park, it is clear that the raging heat is not the only plague
affecting the town.
Then a second girl is found dead.
Alarmed by the fact that the victims are the same age as her daughter,
Tove, detective Malin Fors will work round-the-clock to capture the
perpetrator. But as every lead comes to nothing, it is as though the
oppressive heat is clogging up the wheels of her investigation. And time
is not on Malin's side . . . 'This gripping Scandinavian thriller . .
. is tense, dark and suspenseful. The snowy landscape is an ideal
setting for a mystery which leads us into the darkest corners of the
human psyche.' Mons grew up in a working-class household in the
provincial town of Linkoping, Sweden, where the Malin Fors series is
set. Before becoming a writer, he worked in journalism and is also a
keen food critic. His first novel, Pesetas
, was awarded the Swedish equivalent of the COSTA First Novel Award. He
has been married to Karolina for over 20 years, and they live in
Stockholm with their daughter and son.
His novels are translated into English by Neil Smith.
