Free Falling, As If in a Dream, Leif GW Persson
Free Falling, As If in a Dream, Leif GW Persson
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Free Falling, As If in a Dream
The Story of a Crime

Author: Leif GW Persson, Paul Norlen

Narrator: Erik Davies

Unabridged: 22 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2014

Synopsis

From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction—and one of the best crime writers of our time—here is the final volume in the critically acclaimed Story of a Crime trilogy, centered on the assassination of Olof Palme in 1986.
 
It’s August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Sweden, is determined once again to reopen the dusty files on the unsolved murder of Prime Minister Palme. With his retirement quickly approaching, Johansson forms a new group, comprised of a few trustworthy detectives who doggedly wade through mountains of paperwork and pursue new leads in a case that has all but gone cold despite the open wound the assassination has left on the consciousness of Swedish society. But the closer the group gets to the truth, the more Johansson compromises the greater good for personal gain, becoming a pawn in the private vendetta of a shady political spin doctor.
 
A detailed and boldly plotted police procedural, Free Falling, As If in a Dream lifts the veil on one of history’s greatest unsolved crimes, bringing dark humor, suspense, and wit to bear on a case long thought to have no answers.

About The Author

Leif GW Persson has chronicled the political and social development of modern Swedish society in his award-winning novels for more than three decades. Persson has served as an adviser to the Swedish Ministry of Justice and is Sweden's most renowned psychological profiler. His is a professor at Sweden's National Police Board and is considered the country's foremost expert on crime.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dimitris

This is the third and final book in the legendary "Fall Of The Welfare State" trilogy, written by the Swedish top criminologist and crime fiction writer, Leif G.W. Persson. I should mention that it is not by any means necessary to have read the first two books ("Between Summer's Longing and Winter's......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

I signed up to goodreads today just so I could review this book, which I just finished yesterday. This is the third book of Perrson's The Story of a Crime trilogy, the titular crime being the 1986 assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister, Olaf Palme, which has never been solved. In this fictional......more

Goodreads review by Aggeliki

Αστυνομικό έτσι για την αλλαγή. Που ωστόσο δεν με καθήλωσε. Εκτός από τις τελευταίες 50 σελίδες που η πλοκή ήταν κομματάκι πιο έντονη. Δεν το περίμενα για ένα βιβλίο με θέμα την εξιχνίαση του φόνου του Ούλοφ Πάλμε. Από τα θετικά, το γεγονός ότι ο συγγραφέας χειρίστηκε με σεβασμό πληροφορίες, παρέθεσ......more

Goodreads review by Fenia

Ένας εξαιρετικός τρόπος κλεισίματος της τριλογίας του Persson σχετικά με τη δολοφονία του Πάλμε! Δεν αφήνει κανένα κενό στην ιστορία, καλύπτει όσα ερωτήματα έμειναν ανοιχτά από τα προηγούμενα δύο βιβλία, εμβαθύνει περισσότερο στους χαρακτήρες και η λύση με τη Θεία Δίκη έρχονται σαν από μηχανής θεός! Γ......more

Quotes

Praise for Another Time, Another Life
“A dark, politically charged thriller . . . Red herrings—perhaps better, Red Brigades herrings—ensue, as Persson unfolds a carefully plotted story . . . A practiced, Larsson-worthy procedural.” —Kirkus Reviews
 
  “Exceptional . . . Persson writes with a sure hand and sharp insight. His detectives are human, interesting, and fallible . . . Fans of Scandinavian crime fiction will eat it up.” —Library Journal
 
 
Praise for Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End
“Unquestionably the best Swedish crime novel I’ve read so far . . . Persson’s sardonic description of how both uniformed and secret police operate is devastating and, at times, acidly funny.” —The Boston Globe
 
“Something possibly unique in modern crime fiction: a dark, dark comedy of crossed purposes, mistakes, and misunderstanding that result, almost coincidentally, in the assassination of a prime minister. [An] exceptional novel.” —Library Journal
 
“Laced with irony and satire . . . Persson does a fine job of pitting one desperate soul against another in a philosophically charged tale worthy of Ingmar Bergman—but with lots more guns.” —Kirkus Reviews
 
“Persson tells a story that keeps us alternately bemused, aghast, and guessing
to the end.” —Sacramento Book Review

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