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The Living and the Dead: A Novel about a Crime
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Series: Halland Suite
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ISBN10: 0593733053
ISBN13: 9780593733059
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.49 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593733059
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.49 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.34
Language: English
THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence. A brooding and brilliant (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) murder mystery set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare.--FREDRIK BACKMAN
The finest crime writer we have in Sweden.--DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western.--ANTHONY MARRA
A thriller rendered with precision and beauty.--ADAM WHITE
Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations.--THE NEW YORK TIMES
A must for Nordic noir and psychological mystery fans.--LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)
Carlsson is the creme de la creme of Nordic noir.--BOOKPAGE (STARRED REVIEW) One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of the Fall WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) - WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD - WINNER OF DENMARK'S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own. On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other. The hunt for the killer will take more than twenty years. It will see the lead detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body turns up in similar circumstances, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light. In The Living and the Dead, renowned criminologist Christoffer Carlsson masterfully transports us to the fields and forests of western Sweden, a region of farmers and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit--a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open and where no one is entirely innocent.
Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western.--ANTHONY MARRA
A thriller rendered with precision and beauty.--ADAM WHITE
Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations.--THE NEW YORK TIMES
A must for Nordic noir and psychological mystery fans.--LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)
Carlsson is the creme de la creme of Nordic noir.--BOOKPAGE (STARRED REVIEW) One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of the Fall WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) - WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD - WINNER OF DENMARK'S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own. On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other. The hunt for the killer will take more than twenty years. It will see the lead detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body turns up in similar circumstances, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light. In The Living and the Dead, renowned criminologist Christoffer Carlsson masterfully transports us to the fields and forests of western Sweden, a region of farmers and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit--a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open and where no one is entirely innocent.
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