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An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockhol...

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Main Author: Roslund, Anders, 1961-
Other Authors: Hellström, Börge, 1957-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Swedish
Published: New York : Sterling, 2012.
Subjects:
Police > Sweden > Fiction.
Prisons > Sweden > Fiction.
Capital punishment > Fiction.
Stockholm (Sweden) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Sweden.
Summary: An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier.
Physical Description: 496 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781402787157
1402787154
Author Notes: Award-winning journalist Anders Roslund and ex-criminal B#65533;rge Hellstr#65533;m are Sweden's most acclaimed crime fiction duo. Their unique ability to combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with penetrating social criticism in complex, intelligent plots has put them at the forefront of modern Scandinavian crime writing. In 2009, their book Three Seconds was awarded the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award for Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, previously won by both Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, became a top-10 bestseller in Sweden for eight months, and hit The New York Times bestseller list in the United States.

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