DATE OF RELEASE: 8 OCT 2026
For fans of The God of the Woods and Tana French, The Living and the Dead is a beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . .
WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD FOR BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL / WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD / WINNER OF DENMARK’S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL
On a cold, snowy winter's night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together, in a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, they imagine they will remain so forever. The next morning, each is a key suspect in a murder.
Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other. The hunt for Mikael Söderström's killer will take over twenty years.
It will see a detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body is found, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light...
