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The dead man was a drunk; a regular on the park benches of Gotland's city centre. He had been celebrating winning 80,000 Krona at the races. His body is discovered by one of his drinking buddies: he is drenched in blood and someone or something has left a hole the size of a fist in the back of his head. It's winter on the island of Gotland. The tourists have returned home. The tree branches are bare, the sky is sleet grey and the days are getting shorter and darker. Winter is a quiet time for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas and Detective Karin Jacobsson; the tourists tend to take the violent crimes with them back to the mainland. To keep their lives simple, they are tempted to assume that the victim died as a result of a drunken brawl over money. But all of the clues point to something far more sinister. Then 14-year old Fanny Jansson, a volunteer at the local stables, vanishes. At first Knutas and Jacobsson find it hard to believe that the two cases are linked: one is a violent murder, the other, the disappearance of a lonely and isolated child who has probably run away. Painstakingly, they work the clues, assisted by ambitious TV reporter Johan Berg. But what none of them realise is that truth is much closer to home than they'd ever imagine.
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"Strong characters raise questions of how well we know those close to us . . . gripping" (Financial Times)
"PRAISE FOR UNSEEN:
Just when I thought that the flow of impressive crime writers from the Nordic countries was slowing down, up pops another. Unseen is the Swede Mari Jungstedt's first novel, but it doesn't feel like it. She is in total control of plot and pace, conveys chilling atmosphere and her characters are well above average for believability." (Marcel Berlins, The Times)
"There's an icy dispassionate grip to Jungstedt's writing that recalls Henning Mankell." (Metro)
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"PRAISE FOR UNSEEN:
Just when I thought that the flow of impressive crime writers from the Nordic countries was slowing down, up pops another. Unseen is the Swede Mari Jungstedt's first novel, but it doesn't feel like it. She is in total control of plot and pace, conveys chilling atmosphere and her characters are well above average for believability." (Marcel Berlins, The Times)
"There's an icy dispassionate grip to Jungstedt's writing that recalls Henning Mankell." (Metro)
An atmospehric new thriller set on the island of Gotland, from Sweden's new crime-writing star
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0385612745
- ISBN 13 9780385612746
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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