Cell 8
Ewert Grens 3
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Publisher Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES 60 BEST THRILLERS AND CRIME NOVELS OF THE PAST 6 YEARS PICK - A CAPITAL CRIME AND A CHILLING CONSPIRACY AWAIT DCI EWERT GRENS.
'A powerful, multi-layered novel' Guardian
'A mesmerising crime narrative' Independent
ONE CELL
A convicted murderer dies awaiting execution on Ohio's death row.
ONE CRIMINAL
Six years later, the same man walks into a Stockholm police station.
ONE CONSPIRACY
He's defeated death. He's played the unplayable system. And now Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens must discover how.
Looking for another novel in the million-selling DCI Ewert Grens series? Try Two Soldiers . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two intriguing yet apparently unconnected story lines power Roslund and Hellstr m's stellar follow-up to Three Seconds (2011), once again featuring Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police. An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. The narrative takes a wild turn after the cantankerous Grens discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier. Thriller fans will relish the bitter Nordic atmospherics, relentless pacing, and brilliant twist ending, but it's the authors' deep exploration into the personal and political fallout from the use of the death penalty that makes this novel such a provocative reading experience.
