Open Grave
A Mystery
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4.1 • 7 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Kjell Eriksson has made a huge splash around the globe with his series set in his native Sweden. Already a star in Europe and the Nordic countries, Kjell Eriksson has American critics raving.
In Open Grave in the Ann Lindell series, Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in his otherwise quiet upper-class neighborhood. Not everybody is happy with the choice of winner. Mysterious incidents start to occur. Boyish pranks say the police, but what follows is certainly not innocent amusement. Police inspector Ann Lindell becomes involved in the case and immediately is transported back into her own past.
Eriksson has been nominated for the Best Swedish Crime Novel five times.Open Grave, the sixth book in his critically acclaimed and internationally loved series, is a chilling novel about renunciation and revenge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Eriksson's outstanding sixth mystery featuring police inspector Ann Lindell (after 2014's Black Lies, Red Blood), 84-year-old Bertram von Ohler, a professor emeritus who lives in a posh neighborhood of Uppsala, Sweden's premier university town, learns that he has won the Nobel Prize in medicine. Meanwhile, Agnes, his housekeeper of 55 years, harbors old grievances against him and yearns for her girlhood home, a poor rural community on Gr s , an island where Edvard Risberg, Ann's lost love, lives a world away from Uppsala. Ohler's neighbors, former colleagues, and professional rivals, all alienated by his arrogance, simmer with resentment against him, and his unstable daughter, Birgitta, both fears that her father's world is crumbling and hopes that it will. Unsettling incidents that the police dismiss as pranks take a darker turn. More a psychological study than a police procedural, this entry is for connoisseurs of subtle, character-driven crime fiction. Those who prefer action and thrills should look elsewhere.
