{"product_id":"9780241773086","title":"The Living and the Dead - Christoffer Carlsson","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 . . . ______________________________________WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD FOR BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF DENMARK'S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL `All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare' FREDRIK BACKMAN'Resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime. Stylistically classy and psychologically rich'THE TIMES'An epic, ambitious literary crime novel' FINANCIAL TIMES `Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations'NEW YORK TIMES___________________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. 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. The hunt for Mikael S�derstr�m'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 . . . ___________________'His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion'WALL STREET JOURNAL`Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western'ANTHONY MARRA'Magnificent, epic, immediate'A. J. FINN 'A psychologically rich study of guilt and memory'I PAPER\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christoffer Carlsson","offers":[{"title":"448 pages \/ 08\/01\/2026 \/ Thriller \/ suspense","offer_id":56966040256887,"sku":"9780241773086","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780241773086_02349661-6805-4cb9-8f71-1474fda7d70c.jpg?v=1780926880","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780241773086","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}