“Gripping, surprising, and tense.” —Crime Review (UK)

“It’s a better class of murder in Sweden. . . . Epic in scale and ambition, this announces a new arrival in the Swedish crime galaxy.” —Daily Mail (UK)

“This Scandinavian page-turner is sure to keep you up late into the night.” —Guelph Mercury (Canada)

“An unusually good debut.” —Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

“A through and through brilliant and stringent crime novel that you plow through in large portions with a worryingly high heart rate.” —Norrbottens-Kuriren (Sweden)

“All admirers of Swedish crime can be thrilled about this book as well as the coming stories in the company of Fabian Risk.” —Weekendavisen (Denmark)

“My god this grabs. It has hands. Truly.” —Caroline Kepnes, author of You

“Full of surprise, suspense, and the shadows of the past. I read it in one sitting.” —Åke Edwardson, author of Room No. 10

“Grabs you from the very first page and refuses to let you go.” —Michael Hjort and Hans Rosenfeldt, authors of the Sebastian Bergman series

“More gripping than Jo Nesbø, blacker than Stieg Larsson, and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell.” —Tony Parsons, author of The Murder Man