The Living and the Dead - Rachel Willson-Broyles

The Living and the Dead - Rachel Willson-Broyles

Rachel Willson-Broyles

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Published 8 October 2026

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  • Pages · 448 pages
  • Publication Date · 08/10/2026
  • Genre · Thriller / suspense
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PRE-ORDER NOW! For fans of The God of the Woods and Tana French, The Living and the Dead 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 . . . ______________________________________WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD FOR BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVELWINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARDWINNER 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`Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western'ANTHONY MARRA'Magnificent, epic, immediate'A. J. FINN`Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations'NEW YORK TIMES'His serpentine plot flows to a natural yet shocking conclusion'WALL STREET JOURNAL'The king of Nordic noir'BOOKPAGE'Resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime. [...] Stylistically classy and psychologically rich'THE TIMES'A psychologically rich study of guilt and memory'i PAPER______________________________________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...

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