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Mari Jungstedt's compelling series of novels featuring Inspector Anders Knutas continues to go from strength to strength with, "The Dead of Summer", the fifth crime adventure set on the island of Gotland. Her trademark combination of rich characterisation, taut crime plots and the continuing unfolding drama of her series characters' lives add up to a mix that rivals "Henning Mankell's Wallander" series. The murder of a jogger on the beach at Faro is an opportunity for Anders Knutas' newly-appointed deputy, Karin Jacobsson, to prove her worth while her boss is on holiday. But when a second body is discovered, murdered in the same style, Jacobsson's investigations point to a horrifying conclusion.

Un matin d''hiver, Egon Wallin, un galeriste suédois, est retrouvé pendu à l''une des portes de Visby, la capitale de l''île de Gotland. La veille de sa mort, il organisait un vernissage pour présent

The price of fame ...is death. When Jenny is spotted by a high-profile modelling agency, she goes from ordinary schoolgirl to celebrity overnight. Suddenly her life is a whirlwind of parties and glamour. Agnes used to be a model too - but now she lies in a hospital bed, slowly being destroyed by an eating disorder. Her father sits by her day after day, praying that his only remaining daughter survives. An attempted murder during a lavish photoshoot means that Jenny's and Agnes' lives will soon intersect in the most terrifying of ways...Because someone is watching them. Someone with a plan. Can Detective Anders Knutas figure out who it is in time to stop a terrible justice being served?

A man is pushed from a cliff; a woman is missing after a bike ride; an elderly man is washed ashore. The friends are closer than most - too close, some might say. Every year they leave their cosy suburban neighbourhood to go on holiday together to a remote Swedish island. But this year, their holiday won't go as expected. A terrible series of tragedies will unfold, seemingly random, all somehow connected. Detective Superintendant Anders Knutas will have to look into the friends' tangled pasts to find the truth. What malevolent force has followed them to the island? Or was it amongst them all along? Even the closest friends don't share everything...

Arguineguín, un pequeño y tranquilo pueblo de Gran Canaria, se ha convertido en el retiro de una amplia colonia de ciudadanos escandinavos que buscan el sol y el mar en el singular paisaje de la isla. La joven y hermosa Erika Bergman llega para pasar unos dias de descanso en una escuela de yoga dentro de un enclave privilegiado, pero un asesino trunca sus planes y acaba con su vida... Y con la paz que hasta entonces se respiraba en el paraiso.El encargado de la investigacion, el comisario Diego Quintana, cuenta con la colaboracion de Sara Moberg, la intrepida redactora del diario escandinavo Dag-Natt, que lleva mas de veinte años viviendo en la isla; y con la del expolicia Kristian Wede, cuya vida privada no pasa precisamente por el mejor momento. Todo son preguntas sin resolver: ¿que atormentaba a Erika? ¿Que paso la noche del crimen? ¿Por que el asesino engalano el cadaver como si se tratara de la Venus de Botticelli? Los tres tienen la sensacion de que quienes conocian a Erika ocultan mas de lo que estan dispuestos a contar, pero no cejaran

It''s summer on Gotland and an international group of archaeology students are excavating an ancient Viking site. The camaraderie and holiday spirits of the group are shattered when one of their number, a Dutch student called Martina, disappears. Rumours abound about a secret relationship she was having with someone on the island, but is her disappearance simply a lover''s intrigue? When the body of a horse is discovered in a local farmer''s field, other rumours begin to circulate. The horse had been decapitated and the head has vanished. As Inspector Knutas begins his investigation, echoes from Gotland''s Viking past begin to trouble his search. When Martina''s naked body is found hanging from a tree, with what look like ritualistic markings on her skin, there can be little further question. Someone is calling to the old Gods of Gotland. Martina has been killed according to the Viking ritual of the three-fold death, and the one thing the ritual points to is that more deaths will follow.

The first body they found was the dog. The poor creatures throat has been cut, and one paw severed completely. Then they found the body of the woman. She had been stabbed, again and again; she was naked, a piece of cloth had been stuffed into her mouth. The picturesque holiday island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season when the young woman is discovered murdered. Suspicion falls on her husband the couple had been seen fighting the evening before. Inspector Anders Knutas is hoping it will be a straight-forward case; the local authorities are hoping so too, but more out of an interest in protecting the tourist trade than any desire to see justice served. Then another victim is discovered, again she is a young woman and she has been murdered in the same chilling manner. Inspector Knutas must face up to the horrifying prospect that there is a serial killer loose on the island. Knutas, aided by investigative journalist Johan Berg, begins to piece together the tragic history that unites the two victims, and alarmingly points to more murders to come. The killer remains unknown, moving freely, unseen, on the island. All that is clear is that the two victims are just the beginning, unless Knutas and Berg find the killer before he strikes again.

A violent robbery. A hit-and-run. A brutal murder. In the stifling heat of an August morning on the beautiful Swedish island of Gotland, terror shatters the calm. An armed robbery is over in minutes, leaving a little girl on the road, hit by the get

A violent robbery. A hit-and-run. A brutal murder. In the stifling heat of an August morning on the beautiful Swedish island of Gotland, terror shatters the calm. An armed robbery is over in minutes, leaving a little girl on the road, hit by the getaway car. Desperate to find those responsible, the police track down one of the culprits. But he is dead, brutally murdered at a remote farm. Tattooed on his arm are three initials: his own and two others. The only clues to the identity of his friends. As the hunt to find the remaining two robbers intensifies, there's every chance the murderer is on their trail too. Can Detective Superintendent Knutas beat them to it?

The first body they found was the dog. The poor creature''s throat has been cut, and one paw severed completely. Then they found the body of the woman. She had been stabbed, again and again; she was naked, a piece of cloth had been stuffed into her mouth. The picturesque holiday island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season when the young woman is discovered murdered. Suspicion falls on her husband - the couple had been seen fighting the evening before. Inspector Anders Knutas is hoping it will be a straight-forward case; the local authorities are hoping so too, but more out of an interest in protecting the tourist trade than any desire to see justice served. Then another victim is discovered, again she is a young woman and she has been murdered in the same chilling manner. Inspector Knutas must face up to the horrifying prospect that there is a serial killer loose on the island. Knutas, aided by investigative journalist Johan Berg, begins to piece together the tragic history that unites the two victims, and alarmingly points to more murders to come. The killer remains unknown, moving freely, unseen, on the island.All that is clear is that the two victims are just the beginning, unless Knutas and Berg find the killer before he strikes again.

Another classic mystery from the master of the clever twist. On a summers day in 1981, a two-year-old girl, Tamsin Hall, was abducted during a picnic at the famous prehistoric site of Avebury in Wiltshire. Her seven-year-old sister Miranda was knocked down and killed by the abductors van. The girls were in the care of their nanny, Sally Wilkinson. One of the witnesses to this tragic event was David Umber, a Ph.D student who was waiting at the village pub to keep an appointment with a man called Griffith who claimed he could help Umber with his researches into the letters of Junius, the pseudonymous eighteenth century polemicist who was his Ph.D subject. But Griffin failed to show up, and Umber never heard from him again. The two-year-old, Tamsin Hall, was never seen again either. The Hall family fell apart under the strain. Sally Wilkinson, the nanny, wound up living with Umber, whom she had met at the inquiry. But she never recovered from the incident, suffered increasingly from depression, and eventually committed suicide. In the spring of 2004, retired Chief Inspector George Sharp receives a letter signed Junius reproaching him for botching the 1981 investigation. Sharp confronts Umber, whose explanation for being at the scene of the tragedy has always seemed dubious. Obliged to accept Umbers denial of authorship of the letter, he nonetheless forces him to join in a search for the real culprit and hence the long-concealed truth about what happened 23 years previously. It is a quest that both will later regret having embarked upon. Too late they come to understand that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

Helena, una joven que pasa los veranos en la aparentemente tranquila isla sueca de Gotland, es asesinada tras una fiesta con sus amigos de infancia. Unos días más tarde aparece muerta Frida, una compañera suya de colegio. El inspector Anders Knutas debe acelerar las investigaciones antes de que la psicosis se apodere del pueblo. Para ello cuenta con la colaboracion, no siempre deseada, del inquieto periodista Johan Berg.La novela avanza con un ritmo endiablado, que impide al lector dejarla hasta su final, imprevisible y retorcido. -Leer

Helena, una joven que pasa los veranos en la aparentemente tranquila isla sueca de Gotland, es asesinada tras una fiesta con sus amigos de infancia. Unos días más tarde aparece muerta Frida, una compañera suya de colegio. El inspector Anders Knutas debe acelerar las investigaciones antes de que la psicosis se apodere del pueblo. Para ello cuenta con la colaboracion, no siempre deseada, del inquieto periodista Johan Berg.

Cuando el cuerpo sin vida de Erika Malm, la polémica editora de uno de los principales periódicos de Suecia, es hallado en una habitación de hotel en Visby, despierta gran interés mediático. El asesinato se ha cometido durante una campaña electoral en la ciudad de Almedal. La investigacion es compleja y las pistas apuntan en diferentes direcciones: hacia una carta amenazante de un grupo neonazi, hacia una misteriosa visita a un teatro y hacia las huellas de un amante secreto. El inspector Anders Knutas y su colega Karin Jacobsson aceptan el caso. Pero no solo la investigacion les causa dolores de cabeza, ¿como manejaran Knutas y Karin los sentimientos que han surgido entre ellos? ¿Se dejaran llevar o seguiran manteniendo una relacion meramente profesional? Por su parte, el periodista Johan Berg esta trabajando en paralelo con la Policia al mismo tiempo que intenta recuperar su vida despues de la tragedia que golpeo a su familia. Mientras le siguen la pista, el asesino se mueve rapido y esta decidido a dirigir su ultimo acto.