Asa Larsson

A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide memorably in Asa Larsson's masterpiece of suspense--a tale of menace, hope, longing, and darkness beyond imagining.The dead woman was found on a frozen lake, her body riddled with evidence of torture. Instantly, Inspector Anna-Maria Mella knows she needs help. Because the dead woman--found in workout clothes with lacy underwear beneath them--was a key player in a mining company whose tentacles reach across the globe. Anna-Maria needs a lawyer to help explain some things--and she knows one of the best.Attorney Rebecka Martinsson is desperate to get back to work, to feel alive again after a case that almost destroyed her. Soon Rebecka is prying into the affairs of the dead woman's boss, the founder of Kallis Mining, whose relationship with his star employee was both complex and ominous. But what Rebecka and Anna-Maria are about to uncover--a tangled drama of secrets, perversion, and criminality--will lay bare a tale as shocking as it is sad...about a man's obsession, a woman's lonely death, and a killer's cold, cold heart.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess...

It's midsummer in Sweden. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest, who made enemies and acolytes in equal number, has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces. Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spreeone that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mystery - a mystery that will soon take another victim - the more the dead woman's world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.

Now translated into English for the first time is Larsson's Sun Storm in which a young Swedish lawyer is pulled into a vortex of suspicion and religious fanaticism after she's summoned to her hometown when a body is found. Optioned for a film, Sun Storm is the winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel Award.

The brutal murder of a female priest at the height of the Swedish midsummer brings attorney Rebecka Martinsson face to face with a nightmare as she is drawn into the investigation and into the heart of a lethal mystery.

It is the first thaw of spring and the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams?

Coming out of retirement to investigate the stabbing murder of Victor Maitland, an artist both hated and acclaimed, ex-Chief of Detectives Edward X. Delaney finds a mob of greedy suspects and a tangle of possible motives.

"Containing seventeen stories, never before published in English, 'A Darker Shade of Sweden' illuminates this beguiling country and its inhabitants as never before. Included are stories from such Swedish literary luminaries as: Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, Asa Larsson, and Eva Gabrielsson."--Provided by publisher. Reunion -- Tove Alsterdal He liked his hair -- Rolf and Cilla Bo˜rjlind Never in real life -- Ake Edwardson In our darkened house -- Inger Frimansson Paul's last summer -- Eva Gabrielsson The ring -- Anna Jansson The mail run -- Asa Larsson Brain power -- Stieg Larsson An unlikely meeting -- Henning Mankell and Hakan Nesser An alibi for Senor Banegas -- Magnus Montelius Something in his eyes -- Dag O˜hrlund Day and night my keeper be -- Malin Persson Giolito The multi-millionaire -- Maj Sjo˜wall and Per Wahlo˜o˜ Diary Braun -- Sara Stridsberg Revenge of the virgin -- Johan Theorin Maitreya -- Veronica von Schenck Too late shall the sinner awaken -- Katarina Wennstam.