- Mystery, Murder, Police, Fiction
A mother's dying wish sealed with a deadly promise. Four men with a secret they thought they'd buried decades ago. A detective in love. A man desperate to live despite the shadow of his guilty past.After hearing her mother's deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother's imperative to do something.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Håkan Nesser
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 335
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375425042
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