The magnificent third installment of the bestselling Backstrom series
Leif G W Persson (Author)
Leif G.W. Persson is Scandinavia's most renowned criminologist and
a leading psychological profiler. He has also served as an advisor
to the Swedish Ministry of Justice. Since 1991, he has held the
position of Professor at the National Swedish Police Board and is
regularly consulted as the country's foremost expert on crime.
He is the author of ten bestselling crime novels including The
Dying Detective which won both the Swedish Academy of Crime
Writers' Award for Best Crime Novel of 2010 and The Glass Key for
Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of 2010.
During his career Persson has been the recipient of many other
prestigious awards including The Piraten Award, The Swedish Academy
of Crime Writers' Award (which he has won three times), The Finnish
Whodunnit Society's Annual Award for Excellence in Foreign Crime
Writing, The Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel, and
The Danish Academy of Crime Writers' Palle Rosenkrantz Prize.
Neil Smith (Translator)
Neil Smith has translated many acclaimed Norwegian and Swedish
novels, including books by Fredrik Backman and Leif G. W. Persson's
The Dying Detective, winner of the CWA International Dagger 2017.
He lives in Norfolk.
Unquestionably among the most entertaining you can find in the
season's crop of Swedish crime fiction.
*Expressen (Sweden)*
Leif GW Persson is a highly intelligent entertainer, able to make
the reader writhe with laughter on one hand and flinch over the
sharp and critical depictions of contemporary society on the other
... To put it simply, I haven't had this much fun reading a crime
novel in a long time.
*Skanska Dagbladet ( Sweden)*
Leif GW Persson undoubtedly writes the most entertaining crime
literature in Sweden right now, not least because of the priceless
police detective Bäckström - a con man whom we love to hate.
*Dala-Demokraten (Sweden)*
Despite - or thanks to - Bäckström's asinine character the plot
strands are elegantly woven together into a powerful whole that
satisfies the readers' desire for a titillating cast of characters,
strange coincidences, and a waft of history.
*Aftonbladet (Sweden)*
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