**A lawyer, an ex-con, and his nephew team up to solve a grisly murder in this explosive crime novel by internationally bestselling Swedish author Jens Lapidus.** When a house alarm goes off in VΓ€rmdΓΆ, an island in Stockholmβs archipelago, a security guard shows up expecting a break-in. But wha
Stockholm Noir
β Scribed by Nathan Larson
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 484 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1617754226
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Larson and Edenborg manage to unearth a dark side to a city that is verdant, clean, and surrounded by crystalline water....Stockholm may not be Marseille, but Larson and Edenborg's contributors show that even a verdant place with socialized medicine can have its seamy side."
βKirkus Reviews
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
Brand-new stories by: Unni Drougge, Inger Edelfeldt, Carl-Michael Edenborg, Γ
ke Edwardson, TorbjΓΆrn Elensky, Inger Frimansson, Carl Johan De Geer, Martin HolmΓ©n, Nathan Larson, Malte Persson, Anna-Karin Selberg, Johan Theorin, and Lina Wolff.
From the introduction by Nathan Larson & Carl-Michael Edenborg:
"To the tourist, the city of Stockholm appears a shimmering dream. Laid out on...
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