Summer Death
A Thriller
-
-
4.3 • 7 Ratings
-
-
- $13.99
-
- $13.99
Publisher Description
In this atmospheric and unforgettable sequel to Midwinter Blood, the elusive, tough-as-nails Swedish police superintendent Malin Fors returns.
In the acclaimed Malin Fors series, every season is perfect for murder.
The tiny town that Detective Malin Fors calls home is plagued by a sweltering heat wave and resulting raging forest fires. It is the hottest summer anyone can recall, and it’s about to become the most violent and grim, too. A teenage girl is found naked and bleeding in a city park, without any recollection of what has happened to her. Next, another grisly discovery is made on a lakeside beach, and the whole town is on edge. A serial killer walks among them, and while the families of Linköping withdraw to protect their young, Malin must uncover the secrets behind these crimes, potentially putting herself and her own family at risk in the process.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A steaming hot Swedish summer provides the backdrop for Kallentoft's gritty second thriller featuring Link ping Det. Insp. Malin Fors (after 2012's Midwinter Blood). While swimming at her health club, Malin receives a call from a colleague to come to a crime scene at the city's Horticultural Society Park, where a naked blond girl in her early teens has been found. Evidently a rape victim, the girl has no memory of what happened to her. When a psychopath later kills another girl, also in her early teens, Malin, who likens herself to Batman ("Damaged goods, yet trying to watch over something"), strives all the more to engage with those who suffer from these terrible crimes. Meanwhile, the detective is sick with worry for her 14-year-old daughter, Tove, and still grieves over the love she and her former husband, Janne, tossed away. As she rants against "bloody mediatocracy... the rapturous elevation of the mediocre," Malin struggles to preserve her integrity in this utterly convincing indictment of today's soul-consuming celebrity culture.
