Paperback: In the chilling follow-up to Some Kind of Peace (2012), Siri Bergman returns to investigate a brutal murder case centered in the dark world of domestic abuse. It is a rainy evening in a Stockholm suburb, and five-year-old Tilde is hiding under the kitchen table playing with her crayons, when a man enters and beats her mother to death in cold blood. Tilde cannot quite see the murderer, but she is the only witness.
Across town, psychologist Siri Bergman and her friend Aina are meeting with their old friend Vijay, who wants them to host a self-help group for victims of domestic abuse. Over the course of several evenings, five very different women share their stories of impossible love, violence, and humiliation. At the same time, Siri finds herself at a crossroads - she is carrying her boyfriend’s child, but is still beset by doubts and fears.
Swedish sisters Camilla Grebe and Åsa Träff weave all these threads together so that the search for healing and the ability to love again are soon transformed into a hunt for Tilde’s mother’s killer. Everyone is a suspect: the many men in the victim’s life, her own son, even some of the women in the self-help group.
Grebe and Träff combine the chills of first-rate crime novels with palpable emotion and personal experience as More Bitter Than Death (2013) builds to a shocking conclusion.
Some Kind of Peace is translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen. Paul Norlen translates fiction from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. In 2004 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.
P/S There are only two books - Some Kind of Peace and More Bitter Than Death - in the Siri Bergman series.
About the authors: Camilla Grebe is a graduate of the Stockholm School of Economics and has had several entrepreneurial successes. She was a cofounder of Storyside, a Swedish audiobook publisher, where she was both CEO and publisher during the early 2000s. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Åsa Träff is a psychologist specializing in cognitive behavioural therapy. She runs a private practice with her husband, also a psychologist. She primarily diagnoses and treats neuropsychiatric disorders and anxiety disorders. She lives in Älvsjö, Sweden.
Both Camilla and Åsa are sisters!
Rating: 5/5
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