A tense and gripping psychological thriller from award-winning Swedish crime writer, Håkan Nesser.
Håkan Nesser is one of Sweden's most popular crime writers,
receiving numerous awards for his novels featuring Inspector Van
Veeteren, including the European Crime Fiction Star Award (Ripper
Award), the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize (three times) and
Scandinavia's Glass Key Award. His Van Veeteren series is published
in over twenty-five countries and has sold over 10 million copies
worldwide. Håkan Nesser lives in Gotland with his wife, and spends
part of each year in the UK.
His other books include the popular Van Veeteren series and The
Barbarotti series.
One of the pleasures of The Living and the Dead in Winsford is the
drip feed of vital information that hurtles you through its 471
pages as it probes deeper into its heroine's demons.
Nesser lives in Gotland but spends part of each year in the UK and
he obviously knows his Winsford - and better still his Exmoor. The
claustrophobia and comfort of village life, the terror of darkness
on an exposed and desolate landscape; proximity with a natural
world as beautiful as it is harsh: every detail seems etched into
Nesser's viscerally descriptive writing.
. . . A ripping yarn
*The Times*
The smooth, silky prose holds the reader's attention from start to
finish, and it's no surprise to discover that this book won the
Palle Rosencrantz Prize for best thriller of the year
*Literary Review*
A tense, psychological exploration of betrayal and revenge,
deservedly winning the Rosenkrantz Award for Best Thriller of the
Year in 2013.'
*Sydney Morning Herald*
The book is part thriller but also reads like literary fiction.
This is no surprise as Nesser is an excellent writer . . . A great
read
*Crimepieces.com*
A haunting, masterly unravelling of a dreadful crime, in The Living
and the Dead in Winsford, Hakan Nesser, the bestselling,
award-winning author of the Van Veeteren series, tightens the
tension like a noose . . .
*fantasticfiction.co.uk*
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