**The unforgetable hero who once saved souls...and now deals death** A mysterious, one-eyed stranger wanders into Farewell, New Mexico, a dusty border town rife with corruption. He's known only as The Preacher, an ex-Priest, ex-Special Forces commando, and now a professional gambler who has given u
The Preacher
✍ Scribed by Läckberg, Camilla
- Book ID
- 109111925
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Series
- Patrik Hedstrom 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007310029
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Swedish bestseller L?ckberg's worthy second thriller set in the coastal town of Fj?llbacka (after The Ice Princess) opens with a grim discovery—the naked fresh corpse of Tanja Schmidt, a German tourist, on top of the skeletal remains of two young women, later identified as Mona Thernblad and Siv Lantin. All three were killed in the same way, but as Det. Patrik Hedstr?m and his team soon discover, Mona and Siv went missing in 1979, and Johannes Hult, the prime suspect in their disappearances, is long dead. The reason for a sadistic killer's reappearance may be hidden among the many secrets and conflicts of a local clan of religious eccentrics. The troubled Hults, from conniving founder (known as the Preacher) to philandering spouses, show a Ross Macdonaldesque love of twisted family relationships, while L?ckberg's colorful, diverse police force, staffed with the competent, the incompetent, and the merely distracted, recalls the humanist touch of Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering.
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