The Living and the Dead 9781405980531 Paperback

PRE-ORDER NOW! For fans ofThe God of the Woodsand Tana French,The Living and the Deadis 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 NOVELWINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF DENMARKS PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVELAll the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rareFREDRIK BACKMANCarlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the WesternANTHONY MARRA’Magnificent, epic, immediate’A. J. FINNCarlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigationsNEW YORK TIMES’His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion’WALL STREET JOURNAL’The king of Nordic noir’BOOKPAGE’Resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime. […] Stylistically classy and psychologically rich’THE TIMES’A psychologically rich study of guilt and memory’i PAPER______________________________________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 Sderstrm’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…