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That's not going to stop it being spilled.
Finally, mum Babs has had one bit of luck and she plans to share the profits with her daughters. She thought they'd be pleased But money always causes trouble, especially when it's desperately needed. Jen wants to make a better life for her kids. Tiff owes a lot of bad men a lot of money. And Dee is worried that her husband is getting back into the criminal life.
As the sisters fall out, a gold bullion heist brings other opportunities - and more dangers. No-one is giving up without a fight Blood Sister Book 2: Blood Mother Book 3: Blood Daughter Book 4: Geezer Girls Book 2: Gangster Girl Book 3: There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route , Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong if time-rusted iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside.
At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. From a bit farther away comes the chink of an aluminum bat hitting a baseball as the Senior League kids practice for the Labor Day charity game. One day, a stranger calls to Gwendy: Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me.
On his head is a small neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat Her daughter has just discovered a dead body. It is that of a year-old resident at the nursing home where she works. He's been hung by his own alarm cord. At first it looks like a cut and dry suicide. But when the autopsy suggests foul play, Malin probes deeper and uncovers rumours about the home's mismanagement its greedy millionaire owner. Was it a mercy killing, or was someone trying to silence the victim?
Who could possibly benefit from the death of an elderly man? Only someone with a lot to gain - or a lot to lose When you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive. A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can gather enough evidence against them while posing as a ruthless hitman. What he doesn't know is that his work as an undercover agent for MI5 is about to intersect with the biggest terrorist operation ever carried out on British soil. Only weeks before Shepherd witnessed a highly skilled IS sniper escape from a targeted missile strike in Syria.
But never in his wildest dreams did he expect to next come across the shooter in a grimy East London flat. Spider's going to have to proceed with extreme caution if he is to prevent the death of hundreds of people, but at the same time, when the crucial moment comes he knows he will have to act decisively. The clock is ticking and only he stands between us and Armageddon.
They are THAT good! Aldis hates working in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland. The boys are unruly, the owners are unpleasant, and there are strange noises at night. And then two of the inmates die Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the centre. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife.
Was her death something more sinister?
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This is a worthy successor to Larsson's Millennium trilogy. This first installment in Kallentoft's crime series is a splendid representative of the Swedish crime novel, in all its elegance and eeriness. One of the best-realised female heroines I've read by a male writer — Guardian. He has a completely unique style, an exquisite narrative that you drink in with pleasure. A gripping opening gambit. Investigating inspector Malin Fors is a feisty single mother, whose flaws are intriguing and endearing. The chillingly suspense-filled story works up to a truly stunning finale.
Malin Fors is an intriguing and complex heroine. Kallentoft is an outstanding writer — Nordic Bookblog. More very impressive input from another Scandinavian writer with something refreshingly different to say and with a different way of saying it. His illustration of the complex character of his heroine is also impressive. The author's sequence featuring his wonderfully rounded female protagonist Malin Fors is rapidly acquiring a devoted following. This is a dark novel, full of awful people and desperate loneliness.
Kallentoft is ruthless in his descriptions, but there is a great story here with solid police work leading Fors to the tale of the dead man in the tree. A must for the fans of Swedish crime novels. He has a knack for characterisation and describing the slow burn of police work. Most successful as an in-depth exploration of small-town life in a country which is theoretically democratic and egalitarian, but only on the surface. Early one morning in the coldest winter in Swedish memory, police detective Malin Fors is called away from the warm flat she shares with her teenage daughter.
From the outset Malin is confronted with a host of unanswered questions: Who is the dead man? How did he end up in a tree? And where did the strange wounds on his body come from? Malin and her team must search for the truth in a community that seems determined to keep its secrets, and follow in the frigid wake of a killer to the darkest corners of the human heart.
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Is it the local "devil worshipers"? The question is one that cries out to be answered - by Ryan's mother, Moira; by Ishbel, the mother of Abigail, the first victim; and by DI Helen Birch, put in charge of the case on her first day at her new job. Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller both with her crime and horror novels. Every day in the summer of twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong if time-rusted iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. He's at the office where they work. That's not going to stop it being spilled.
Do not like the switching persona in this novel. The principal Malin keeps moving from the present situation to past memories. The story line switches from the detectives point of view to the corpse's voice. Maybe this was because this was the first book in the series so introducing the characters is useful.
Editorial Reviews. Review. "Meditative. Dark. Really, really cold This is a worthy successor to Book 1 of 7 in Malin Fors Series (7 Book Series). Midwinter Blood: A Thriller (Malin Fors Series Book 1) and millions of other .. Mons Kallentoft, when I picked up "Midwinter Sacrifice" for the first time last year.
I will try one more in the series before making a final decision. It was hard to keep track of the main story. This is a murder thriller I will not forget. The main character is a 30 something female detective. She is well developed and very believable. Both authors are journalists and I have to wonder how much of their fiction stories draw from "Real" life crime.
If you have a squeamish stomach be forewarned the details are disgusting. I love reading thrillers.
A strong debut by a new voice out of Sweden. Kallentoft peoples his story with credible characters, a harsh, unforgiving milieu, a gruesome crime and a palpable sense of cold. Set in early February of what seems to be the coldest winter in recent memory, the story follows Superintendent Malin Fors and her colleagues on the Linkoping Police force as they attempt to unravel the long-buried secrets of a brutal family on the fringes of Swedish society.