The Second Deadly Sin The Arctic Murders - A gripping and atmospheric murder mystery

The novels that inspired Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders - the major TV series "Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews "In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren''t many as interesting and human as Rebecka" Wall Street Journal At the end of a deadly bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the successful hunters are shaken by a grisly discovery. Across in Kurravaara, a woman is murdered with frenzied brutality: crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed, her young grandson nowhere to be found. Only Rebecka Martinsson sees a connection. Dropped from the case thanks to a jealous rival, she now stands alone against a killer who brings death to young and old, spawned by a horrifying crime that festers after one hundred years on ice.

About the author

Åsa Larsson was born and grew up in Kiruna, Sweden. She is a qualified lawyer and made her debut in 2003 with The Savage Altar, which was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Association prize for best debut novel. Its sequel, The Blood Spilt, was chosen as Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2004, as was The Second Deadly Sin in 2011. Her novels were adapted for television and shown on More 4.

The sixth and final book in the Rebecka Martinsson series, The Sins of Our Fathers, was named Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, and is the winner of the Adlibris Suspense Award, the Storytel Award.

Product details

• Authors: Åsa Larsson, Asa Larsson, 197 Larsson, Sa
• Assisted by: Laurie Thompson (Translation), Thompson Laurie (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 12.10.2023
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense
• EAN: 9781529432350
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-3235-0
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions (packing): 12.8 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm
• Series: The Arctic Murders
• Subjects: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction in translation, Sweden, Scandi Noir, The Killing, Scandi Crime, Crime and mystery fiction, Sarah Lund, TRAVEL / Europe / Nordic Countries / General, female detective, Arctic Murders; female detective; The Killing; More 4; Sarah Lund; Scandi noir; The Blood Spilt; The Savage Altar; Scandi crime; next Sarah Lund; next Killing, The Blood Spilt, next Sarah Lund, More 4, The Savage Altar, next Killing