The Living and the Dead

<p><b>PRE-ORDER NOW! For fans of <i>The God of the Woods</i> and <i>All the Colours of the Dark</i>, <i>The Living and the Dead</i> is a beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . </b></p><p><br><b>______________________________________</b><br><br><b>'The finest crime writer we have in Sweden' </b>DAVID LAGERCRANTZ<br><br><b>‘All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare’ </b>FREDRIK BACKMAN<br><br><b>‘Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western. You’ll find yourself gripped by the ingenious plotting and moved by the gorgeous writing’</b> ANTHONY MARRA<br><br><b>‘Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations’</b> <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i><br><br><b>______________________________________</b><br><br>On a cold, snowy winter's night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together, in a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, they imagine they will remain so forever.<br><br>The next morning, each is a key suspect in a murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.<br><br>The hunt for Mikael Söderström's killer will take over twenty years. It will see a detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body is found, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light...</p>