Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Malin Persson Giolito
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Malin Persson Giolito
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Beyond All Reasonable Doubt

Author: Malin Persson Giolito, Rachel Willson-Broyles

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/04/2019


Synopsis

From the award-winning author of Quicksand, a gripping legal thriller that follows one woman's conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction. 

I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer's dream, said Sophia Weber's old professor. Freeing an innocent man. 

Thirteen years ago, a fifteen-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one of the most ruthless criminals.

When Sophia Weber discovers critical flaws in the murder investigation, she decides to help Ahlin. But Sophia's doing her utmost to get her client exonerated arouses many people's disgust. And the more she learns, the more difficult her job becomes. What kind of man is her client really? What has he done? And will she ever know the truth?

About The Author

Malin Persson Giolito was born in Stockholm in 1969 and grew up in Djursholm, Sweden. She holds a degree in law from Uppsala University and has worked as a lawyer for the biggest law firm in the Nordic region and as an official for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Now a full-time writer, she is the author of four novels including Quicksand, named Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year and now a Netflix original series. Persson Giolito lives with her husband and three daughters in Brussels.   Rachel Willson-Broyles holds a bachelor’s degree in Scandinavian Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. She started translating while a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in Scandinavian Studies in 2013. Her translation of Malin Persson Giolito’s Quicksand was published in 2017. Willson-Broyles lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish

This legal thriller bursts out of the gate from the first pages, easily capturing the attention of anyone who has ever been, or known, a teenaged girl. At the same time it underlines and validates the well-deserved success of Swedish novelist Malin Persson Giolito, who won Best Swedish Crime Novel o......more

Goodreads review by Alice

Really like the discussions on justice and miscarriage of justice in this, but it's still a long book without a lot of action.......more

Goodreads review by Jill

Is justice served when a man who is likely guilty of the unspeakable crime of child molestation sentenced to life behind bars for a murder he may not have committed? That is the tantalizing question behind Malin Persson Giolito’s new book. After reading her previous book, Quicksand, I knew I was in t......more

Goodreads review by Saeed

At the heart of this book is a mystery, read on ... "Beyond all reasonable doubt" is a police procedural, in every negative sense of the word. It's dull, humdrum, tedious. Because the less said about this book is the better, let's dispense with the plot: Lawyer Sophia Weber reluctantly sets out to fr......more