A violent robbery, a family murdered, a daughter missing...
Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there was a third child – a teenage daughter – who is unaccounted for.
Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she’d envisioned, as she begins to piece together a terrifying story of violence, abuse and murder.
From Booklist
Starred Review As Spain’s Costa del Sol attracts wealthy residents, it becomes known as Costa del Crime, with a proliferation of home burglaries in which residents are temporarily gassed while their homes are stripped of valuables. Then a burglary in which a different gas is used results in the deaths of all five of the home’s Swedish residents: former NHL player Sebastian Soderstrom, his solicitor wife, his two young children, and his mother-in-law. Stockholm crime reporter Annika Bengtzon, having just turned down an editorial job on the restructuring Evening Post, pursues the story with her trademark persistence, particularly when she learns that Soderstrom’s teenage daughter from his first marriage was absent during the burglary and has disappeared. With Annika’s personal life in a state of flux—her cop lover turns out to be married, and her ex-husband is making moves to reconnect—she has little patience for those who impede her progress as she finds a web of drug dealing and money laundering stretching from Sweden to Morocco and looping back to her previous outing in Lifetime (2013). In Marklund’s eighth mystery in this series, she looks at society’s strivers as she continues her tradition of superlative Scandinavian crime fiction with a tough but appealingly fallible protagonist who leaves readers wanting more. --Michele Leber
Review
"Marklund plays with Swedish history, politics, and current events all the while maintaining the integrity of her characters.... This is a series to savor." —The Globe and Mail
"Pick up a Liza Marklund book, read it until dawn, wait until the stores open, buy another one."
—James Patterson, author of the Alex Cross series
"It's no accident that Liza Marklund is one of the most dynamic and popular crime writers of our time."
—Patricia Cornwell, author of the Kay Scarpetta series
“This installment in the Bengtzon Chronicles offers plenty of suspense.”
—*Publishers Weekly *
Description:
A violent robbery, a family murdered, a daughter missing...
Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there was a third child – a teenage daughter – who is unaccounted for.
Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she’d envisioned, as she begins to piece together a terrifying story of violence, abuse and murder.
From Booklist
Starred Review As Spain’s Costa del Sol attracts wealthy residents, it becomes known as Costa del Crime, with a proliferation of home burglaries in which residents are temporarily gassed while their homes are stripped of valuables. Then a burglary in which a different gas is used results in the deaths of all five of the home’s Swedish residents: former NHL player Sebastian Soderstrom, his solicitor wife, his two young children, and his mother-in-law. Stockholm crime reporter Annika Bengtzon, having just turned down an editorial job on the restructuring Evening Post, pursues the story with her trademark persistence, particularly when she learns that Soderstrom’s teenage daughter from his first marriage was absent during the burglary and has disappeared. With Annika’s personal life in a state of flux—her cop lover turns out to be married, and her ex-husband is making moves to reconnect—she has little patience for those who impede her progress as she finds a web of drug dealing and money laundering stretching from Sweden to Morocco and looping back to her previous outing in Lifetime (2013). In Marklund’s eighth mystery in this series, she looks at society’s strivers as she continues her tradition of superlative Scandinavian crime fiction with a tough but appealingly fallible protagonist who leaves readers wanting more. --Michele Leber
Review
"Marklund plays with Swedish history, politics, and current events all the while maintaining the integrity of her characters.... This is a series to savor."
—The Globe and Mail
"Pick up a Liza Marklund book, read it until dawn, wait until the stores open, buy another one."
—James Patterson, author of the Alex Cross series
"It's no accident that Liza Marklund is one of the most dynamic and popular crime writers of our time."
—Patricia Cornwell, author of the Kay Scarpetta series
“This installment in the Bengtzon Chronicles offers plenty of suspense.”
—*Publishers Weekly *