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After moving to the remote town of Blackwater in northern Sweden to join her lover, Annie Raft stumbles upon a brutal double murder that remains unsolved for twenty years, until the day she sees her grown daughter in the arms of the man Annie saw leavingthe scene of the crime.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Kerstin Ekman
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 439
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, Doubleday, Katha
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9789100556761
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