Sun Storm, Asa Larsson
Sun Storm, Asa Larsson
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Sun Storm

Author: Asa Larsson

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/29/2016


Synopsis

On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled–and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall . . . So begins Åsa Larsson's spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel Award and an international literary sensation.

Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark, wrenching, and impossible to guess.

About Asa Larsson

Ã…sa Larsson is a two-time recipient of the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award, and her books have been published in twenty-three languages. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Ã…sa was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels, Rebecka Martinsson.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

I needed to find a first-in-a-series book to read and had a hankering to read a crime novel. Having not previously read a Scandinavian crime book, I thought this was as good a time as any to give one a try. The thought of some astonishing landscape thrown into the mix appealed to me as well. I grabb......more

Απο την αρχη της ιστορίας αντιλαμβάνεσαι το ρόλο των εκκλησιαστικών θεσμών της κοινότητας αλλα ειναι αδιανόητο ποσο βαθειά χωμένοι και παγιδευμένοι μεσα σε μια ιστορια του παρελθόντος που επανέρχεται στο προσκήνιο με αφορμή έναν φόνο ειναι όλοι τελικά οι εξέχοντες κάτοικοι της κωμόπολης και ειδικά ο......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I've been on a Scandinavian writers' kick since I read and fell hard for 'Out Stealing Horses,' by Per Petterson last August. After reading all three of Petterson's books, (reviewing so far only the first,) I turned to the genre which Nordic writers seem to dominate these days---the suspense novel.......more

Goodreads review by Pam

This is the first in a series by the Swedish Noir writer Asa Larsson. It has good things to recommend it. I enjoyed the tax forensics, the story of evangelism in a small Swedish town (didn’t know such a thing existed there) and the general winter landscape. I also learned that gherkin sandwiches are......more

Un famoso predicador de una "nueva" y exitosa religión es hayado brutalmente asesinado en una alejada iglesia de Kiruna, Suecia. Su hermana Sanna encuentra el cadáver y se convierte en la única posible sospechosa. Rápidamente llama a Rebekah, una antigua amiga que huyó de la ciudad y de su unión con......more