The Blood Spilt

SWEDEN'S BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR A disturbing, entrancing, and beautifully crafted mystery set in northern Sweden, from the acclaimed author of Sun Storm

"A virtuoso mood piece that works endless changes on its unforgiving landscape."-Kirkus Reviews

It's midsummer in Sweden-when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest-who made enemies and acolytes in equal number-has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces. . . .

Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spree-one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mystery-a mystery that will soon take another victim-the more the dead woman's world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.