It’s mid-November. Stockholm isn’t showing its best side on this stormy evening. If you don’t have to be outside, avoid it as much as possible. However, the murder investigators in the Swedish capital have no choice: the body of a police officer is discovered in a park – and very close by that of a young woman, an immigrant.
The focus of the quickly starting investigations is placed on the murder of the police officer, after all the dead colleague was involved with the sensitive issue of gang crime. Inspector Vanessa Frank, however, an investigator to like and, yes, sometimes even to tease, plunges into the case of the stabbed Syrian woman. No wonder, as it quickly turns out, the young woman was her foster daughter Natasja a few years ago.
In the course of the investigation, inspector Vanessa Frank gets caught up in the preparations for an Islamist terrorist attack. And the questions hover over everything: What does Natasja have to do with it? And did she knowingly lie to and deceive the Commissioner at the time?
Disturbing Truths
With the help of a former elite soldier, Vanessa Frank is feverishly looking for a jihadist sleeper cell in Stockholm, which also includes so-called IS widows (relatives of killed fighters of the terrorist militia “Islamic State” who are plotting revenge).
In the process, she discovers disturbing truths. This book deals with several explosive topics: In addition to Islamist terror, author Pascal Engman, a former journalist at the newspaper “Expressen”, also addresses money laundering using cryptocurrencies, violence and dependency in marriage and blackmailing high-ranking politicians using compromising sex videos.
The plot of this book is incredibly clever. The storylines, which are (apparently) far apart at the beginning, are artfully and extremely excitingly intertwined and linked. The result is a frighteningly realistic and oppressively authentic book – and certainly one of the best that can currently be found in Scandinavian suspense literature.
In any case, this 507-page thriller is much more than a simple read on the beach. It has a long-lasting effect.
Source: Nachrichten
