An old man, Lars, had come to her with a request that felt like a ghost story. "My father didn't just leave in 1962," he wheezed, his own breath failing him. "He was frozen in time." Literally. A body had been found in a forgotten freezer on a remote farm, identified as a man who disappeared sixty years ago.
: The final book in the Rebecka Martinsson series set in Northern Sweden. It won the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year . You can find it on Planetadelibros .
As Rebecka dug into the past, she felt the same "unassuming depth" Matt Scudder might have felt in a dim New York bar. She found herself navigating a landscape where the "Sins of the Fathers" weren't just metaphors; they were the foundations of the current power structures. In the 60s, a boxing legend’s father vanished, and now, the "King of the Lingonberries"—the region's old organized crime boss—was casting a long, dark shadow over the investigation.