Geiger, Gustaf Skordeman
Geiger, Gustaf Skordeman
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Geiger

Author: Gustaf Skördeman

Narrator: Claire Corbett

Unabridged: 12 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/10/2022


Synopsis

For a seemingly perfect family, a single word will change everything in this edge‑of‑your‑seat thriller for fans of The Silent Patient and The Whisper Man.

It's early summer in Stockholm. Agneta and Stellan Broman have just waved off their daughters and grandchildren when the landline phone rings. The caller says just one word: "Geiger." Agneta hangs up, finds her old pistol, kills her husband of fifty years and then disappears from their home without a trace.

Sara Nowak, a police officer in the prostitution unit, is called by a colleague who is investigating the murder. Stellan was a widely loved former television presenter, and Sara grew up next door to the Bromans, spending much of her childhood in their grand house. Both the victim's daughters and Sara are devastated by the killing, and going against all regulations, Sara gets involved in the investigation. It is the beginning of a dark journey, leading back to the Cold War and fatal ideologies, and the truth about Sara's own childhood.

Exciting, compelling, and full of twists you'll never see coming, Geiger is Gustaf Skördeman's incredible debut thriller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nadine on March 12, 2024

Puh.....ein Agenten Thriller mit Höhen und Tiefen.... Onkel Stellan ist berühmt, beliebt und......tot....erschossen von seiner Ehefrau....beide im Seniorenalter.... Es entspinnt sich eine etwas verworrene Spionage Geschichte um den kalten Krieg..... die Polizistin Sara, die einen starken persönlichen......more

Goodreads review by Liz on April 09, 2021

Geiger is an engaging and unpredictable spy drama, with all the twists and turns you could possibly need and a strong sense of character and place. It has an immediately absorbing opening as Grandma Agneta waves goodbye to her children and grandchildren, receives a phone call, then shoots her unsuspe......more

Goodreads review by Bridget on June 23, 2021

I listened to this book on audio last weekend. Let's start at the beginning. An older woman calmly farewells her children and grandchildren, goes to her bedside table, takes out a gun, fits a silencer, walks up behind her husband as he sits reading in a chair and calmly shoots him in the head. And t......more

Goodreads review by Dana on August 10, 2022

The beginning of this book starts off with a BANG. It had my attention for awhile, then it started to drag. I didn't connect with the main character Sara at all. She was actually pretty shitty at her job imo. Total rogue cop. Her decisions and actions were dangerous. She wasn't so much a bad ass fem......more

Goodreads review by Anae on November 15, 2022

Novela bastante desasosegante, narrada entre la actualidad y la Guerra Fría. Dos historias paralelas que se entremezclan en la persona de Sara Nowak y que dejan una sensación de impotencia y de amargura difíciles de superar: una por la situación social y otra por la política... ¿está ocurriendo? ¿po......more


Quotes

“Skördeman keeps readers fully engaged right up to the last shattering revelations. This tale of Cold War revenge and familial anguish will resonate with many.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"A fast-paced thriller . . . An impressive debut."—Financial Times

“Engrossing.”—Kirkus

"An astonishing, assured and terrifying debut. Many books have pretensions to be the next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but Geiger actually delivers - reaching that level and beyond. Remarkable."—David Young, award-winning author of STASI CHILD

"Exciting, extremely clever, incredible. An instant classic."—Tom Marcus, bestselling author of SOLDIER SPY

"The very definition of a thriller. Plotting as good as Lee Child, pacing as good as Harlan Coben but with a completely original voice. Absolutely brilliant."—Helen Fields, author of PERFECT REMAINS

"Expect a blockbuster movie."—Saga Magazine