The Living and the Dead A Novel About a Crime

Christoffer Carlsson, Rachel Willson-Broyles

eBook - 2025

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLEROne town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence.A “brooding and brilliant” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) murder mystery set in a rural Swedish town, where one community’s secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . .“All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare.”—FREDRIK BACKMAN“The finest crime writer we have in Sweden.”—DAVID LAGERCRANTZ“Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western.”—ANTHONY MARRA“A thriller rendered with precision and beauty.”—ADAM WHITE“Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES“A mus...t for Nordic noir and psychological mystery fans.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL... more