Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of Swedish Olympic boxing champion Bèorje Strèom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case - she has enough to worry about. But how can she ignore a dying man's wish? When the post-mortem confirms that Pekkari, too, was murdered, Rebecka has a red-hot investigation on her hands. But what does it have to do with the body kept in his freezer for decades? Meanwhile, the city of Kiruna is being torn down and moved a few kilometres east, to make way for the mine that has been devouring the city from below. With the city in flux, the tentacles of organized crime are slowly taking over.
Biografie (Åsa Larsson)
Åsa Larsson wurde 1966 in Kiruna geboren. Sie arbeitete als Steueranwältin, bis sie beschloss, Autorin zu werden. Mit ihrem zweiten Roman erhielt den schwedischen Krimipreis und stand monatelang auf der Bestsellerliste. Åsa Larsson lebt mit ihrem Lebensgefährten und zwei Kindern in der Nähe von Gripsholm.
