Åsa Larsson Boeken

It’s midsummer in Sweden—when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest—who made enemies and acolytes in equal number—has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces.... Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spree—one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mystery—a mystery that will soon take another victim—the more the dead woman’s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice. In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Åsa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turned From the Hardcover edition.

Officier van justitie Rebecka Martinsson leidt het onderzoek naar een gruwelijke moord in Kiruna, in het hoge noorden van Zweden. Het slachtoffer is Soll-Britt en zij zorgde voor haar negenjarige kleinzoon Marcus, die getuige was van de moord. Zolang het onderzoek loopt, vindt Marcus onderdak bij politieman Krister. Hoe dieper Rebecka in de zaak duikt, hoe meer bizarre sterfgevallen bovenkomen die met elkaar te maken hebben en Marcus in gevaar brengen. Het is ooit begonnen bij de dood van Frans Uusitalo, die een erfenis naliet. Wat volgt is een race tegen de klok. Zal het Rebecka lukken om de moordenaar van Soll-Britt te vinden en het leven van Marcus en zijn erfenis veilig te stellen?

Op midzomernacht wordt in het noorden van Zweden de feministische predikante Mildred Nilsson dood aangetroffen. Ze is opgehangen aan haar voeten, in de kerk. Nilsson - een herrieschopper, die met zowel haar werkgever, de mannen in het dorp als de jachtvereniging in conflict is geraakt - had veel vijanden. Toch loop het politieonderzoek vast. Als een paar maanden later juriste Rebecka Martinsson belastend materiaal vindt en dat aan de politie overhandigt, blaast zij onbedoeld het politieonderzoek nieuw leven in. Twee jaar eerder was zij in dezelfde streek aanwezig om de moord op religieuze leider Viktor Strandgard te onderzoeken. De overeenkomsten tussen de moorden zijn zodanig dat de politie op zoek is naar een copycat. Het spoor is afgekoeld, maar in het dorp Poikkijärvi, waar de predikant woont, is de waarheid onder de oppervlakte pijnlijk aanwezig.

At the end of a deadly bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the hunters are shaken by a horrifying discovery... Across in Kurravaara, a woman is murdered with horrific brutality... Only Rebecka Martinsson sees a connection but she's been dropped from the case...

Spellbinding crime fiction set in Sweden's far north in the Arctic Murders series - Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Best Novel of 2021

On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled–and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall....So begins Åsa Larsson’s spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden’s Best First Crime Novel Award and an international literary sensation. Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she’d left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark, wrenching, and impossible to guess.... From the Hardcover edition.

One of The Times' "Best Crime Novels by Women since 2000" "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 The frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Torneträsk in northern Sweden. She has been brutally tortured, but the killing blow was clumsy, almost amateur. The body is quickly identified, raising hopes of an open-and-shut solution. But when a six-month-old suicide is disinterred, Rebecka Martinsson and Anna-Maria Mella find themselves investigating shocking corruption at the heart of one of Sweden's most successful mining companies. One that has powerful enemies of its own.

It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend, also reported as missing the previous winter? Joining forces once again with Police Inspectors Anna-Maria Mella and Sven-Erik St. lnacke, Rebecka is drawn into an investigation that centres on old rumours about a plane carrying supplies for German troops in 1943 that never arrived. Shame and secrecy shroud the locals' memories of the war, with Sweden's early collaboration with the Nazis still a raw wound. And on the windswept shore of a frozen lake lurks a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried for ever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow

On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall. Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess.