Autumn Killing A Thriller [Paperback]

“The latest hot Swedish import.”—Entertainment Weekly

“One of those books that will keep you up throughout the night...Make room on your shelf—and calendar—for this one.”—Bookreporter.com

Police superintendent Malin Fors returns in this chilling third novel from the critically acclaimed author ofMidwinter Blood, the first in the series and “a splendid representative of the Swedish crime novel, in all its elegance and eeriness” (Booklist, starred review).

Autumn rains are pouring down on the Swedish countryside, but it’s the discovery of a brutally stabbed body floating facedown in the moat of Skogså Castle that chills one town to the bone. Jerry Petersson, the castle’s new owner and a notoriously ruthless lawyer and entrepreneur, is now, shall we say, permanently out of business. Meanwhile, Malin Fors, the brilliant but flawed star of the local police force, is already struggling to keep her life together following the recent murder attempt on her teenage daughter, Tove. Now, as the Petersson case forces Malin to delve deep into her town’s history and her own family’s past, the secrets she uncovers threaten to drown her, too.Autumn Killing
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

Slowly, slowly into the night.

Just accelerate gently so that nothing goes wrong.

Hands shaking on the wheel, pitch black outside the car windows, the storm making the rain fly horizontally through the air, large drops merging with microscopic ones, the windshield full of black tears that no wipers could ever cope with.

Police superintendent Malin Fors can feel her heart pounding in her chest; she can see it in front of her, as black and liverish and tormented as the night lƒ+