The savage altar / Åsa Larsson ; translated by Marlaine Delargy.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Series: Larsson, Åsa, Rebecka Martinsson ; 1.Rebecka Martinsson thrillerPublisher: London : Viking, 2007Description: 310 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670916863 (pbk.); 0670916862 (pbk.); 9780670916146 (hbk.)Other title: Sun stormUniform titles: Solstorm. English Subject(s): Martinsson, Rebecka (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Martinsson, Rebecka (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Suspense fiction | Martinsson, Rebecka (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Martinsson, Rebecka (Fictitious character) -- Sweden -- Fiction | Murder Investigation Sweden Fiction | Women lawyers Sweden Fiction | Cults Sweden Fiction | Friendship Sweden Fiction | Cults | Friendship | Murder -- Investigation | Women lawyers | Murder -- Investigation -- Sweden -- Fiction | Women lawyers -- Sweden -- Fiction | Cults -- Sweden -- Fiction | Friendship -- Sweden -- Fiction | Sweden | Suspense fictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Suspense fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 839.7374 Summary: When Victor Strandgard dies, it is not in fact for the first time.Summary: CRIME & MYSTERY. There is a church in the glittering frozen wastes of Northern Sweden. Inside, a sacrifice: the body of a man - slashed to pieces, hands severed, eyes gouged out. The victim's sister, Sanna, is first to discover the body and immediately finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and confused, she calls on a friend: hot-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson. Rebecka hardly wants to return to Kirana - the small town she fled in disgrace years ago. But Sanna is frightened and she needs a loyal friend to clear her name. Someone not scared to dig deep and find the true killer. Yet Rebecka is not especially welcomed into the closed-lipped community of Kirana. She might know the town, the people and how suspicious they can be of strangers. But she has still to find out how dark the town's secrets have become in her absence.
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Originally published in English as: Sun storm. New York : Bantam Dell, 2006.
Translated from the Swedish.
When Victor Strandgard dies, it is not in fact for the first time.
CRIME & MYSTERY. There is a church in the glittering frozen wastes of Northern Sweden. Inside, a sacrifice: the body of a man - slashed to pieces, hands severed, eyes gouged out. The victim's sister, Sanna, is first to discover the body and immediately finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and confused, she calls on a friend: hot-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson. Rebecka hardly wants to return to Kirana - the small town she fled in disgrace years ago. But Sanna is frightened and she needs a loyal friend to clear her name. Someone not scared to dig deep and find the true killer. Yet Rebecka is not especially welcomed into the closed-lipped community of Kirana. She might know the town, the people and how suspicious they can be of strangers. But she has still to find out how dark the town's secrets have become in her absence.
Translated from the Swedish.
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