Paperback: The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face (2016) is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.
Criminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg.
He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department.
But after only a few hours in their new home, he is asked to investigate a brutal murder.
The body of Jörgen Pålsson, one of Risk’s former classmates, has been found with both hands missing.
Soon the bodies of more old classmates are found, and Risk finds himself in a race against time: Can they find the murderer before the entire class is killed?
Victim Without A Face is translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
About the author: ”As a kid, I never dreamt of being a writer. Putting letters in the right order to form words did not come easily to me. school, while the rest of my class had Swedish lessons, a strange-smelling lady would pull me out of the classroom to play with wooden blocks painted with colourful letters.
For as long as I can remember, however, I have been a passionate storyteller. Growing up as an only child undoubtedly sparked my creativity, and all the hours spent playing by myself fed my vivid imagination. My grandfather’s rocking chair was a marvellous spacecraft able to transport me to all the planets in the universe. And the world map that my teacher stubbornly refused to pull down revealed precisely where the secret treasure was buried.
From that time on, the stories kept coming to me, as if from an inexhaustible source. But it wasn’t until I reached adulthood that I finally abandoned a future in physics and mathematics and realised that I had to pursue my true calling."
Stefan Ahnhem grew up in Helsingborg, Sweden, and now lives in Stockholm. He is an established screenwriter, whose credits include adapting Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series for TV. He has worked in both TV and film, with everything from comedy to thriller and with original ideas as well as adaptations. He also serves on the board of the Swedish Writers Guild. Victim Without a Face is his first novel. It won Crimetime's Novel of the Year in Sweden in 2014, and it has been published in more than ten countries. To date, four novels have been published in the internationally bestselling and award-winning Fabian Risk series.
About the translator: Rachel Willson-Broyles is an experienced translator of Swedish fiction. Her recent credits include the translation of The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson.
Rating: 5/5
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