A beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . ______________________________________WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD FOR BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF DENMARK'S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL `All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare' FREDRIK BACKMAN'Resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime. Stylistically classy and psychologically rich'THE TIMES'An epic, ambitious literary crime novel' FINANCIAL TIMES `Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations'NEW YORK TIMES___________________On a cold, snowy winter's night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together, in a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, they imagine they will remain so forever. The next morning, each is a key suspect in a murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other. The hunt for Mikael S�derstr�m's killer will take over twenty years. It will see a detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body is found, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light . . . ___________________'His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion'WALL STREET JOURNAL`Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western'ANTHONY MARRA'Magnificent, epic, immediate'A. J. FINN 'A psychologically rich study of guilt and memory'I PAPER
