Post Mortem

<p><b>Professor Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas have earned a reputation for solving the unsolvable. But they've never been confronted by a serial killer.</b><br><br>That changes when Rekke receives a visit from Spanish chief inspector Rafael Corales, who is unable to forget the unsolved murder of a young woman in Santander in 1988. Now other bodies have come to light, marked with signs that seem to be some kind of numerical order.<br><br>Still recovering from his latest hypomanic episode - his relationship with Vargas strained by a secret she's keeping - Rekke agrees to help track down the killer.<br><br>Clues from a posthumously published short story by the victim draw him undercover into the murky world of Sweden's literary scene - authors, agents and producers who are past masters at selling a lie. To unmask the killer, Rekke must relearn the difference between fact and fiction, and discover what really happened that night in Santander in 1988.<br><br><b>Reviews for <i>Dark Music </i>and </b><i><b>Fatal Gambit</b></i><br><br>"A classic murder mystery . . . one Holmes himself would have loved to solve" <i>Independent</i><br><br>"Fans of dark Swedish crime will love this moody thriller" <i>The Sun</i><br><br>"A rich, engrossing novel"<i> Literary Review</i><br><br><b>Translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles</b></p>