The Black Path

Book excerpt: "Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews "Asa Larsson is as deft at writing heart-stopping scenes as she is at getting inside the heads of characters" Washington Post TWO WOMEN FOLLOW A KILLER'S TRAIL INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS The frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Torneträsk in northern Sweden. She has been brutally tortured, but the killing blow was clumsy, almost amateur. The body is quickly identified, raising hopes of an open-and-shut solution. But when a six-month-old suicide is disinterred, Rebecka Martinsson and Anna-Maria Mella find themselves investigating shocking corruption at the heart of one of Sweden's most successful mining companies. One that has powerful enemies of its own... The novels that inspired the major TV series, Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders Translated from Swedish by Laurie Thompson