The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson from Penguin (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Before Stieg Larsson, there was Asa Larsson . . . The Savage Altar is a truly absorbing, atmospheric and fast-paced thriller featuring lawyer Rebecka Martinsson, a fantastic character in the mould of The Silence of the Lambs' Clarice Starling.
A church in the glittering frozen wastes of northern Sweden. Inside, a sacrifice: the body of a man - slashed to pieces, hands severed, eyes gouged out.
The victim's sister, Sanna, is first to discover the body and immediately finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and confused, she calls on a friend: got-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson.
Rebecka hardly wants to return to Kiruna - the small town she fled in disgrace years ago. But Sanna is frightened and she needs a loyal friend to clear her name. Someone not scared to dig deep and find the true killer.
Yet Rebecka is not especially welcomed into the closed-lipped community. She might know the town, the people and how suspicious they can be of strangers but she has still to find out how dark the town's secrets have become in her absence.
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Call the Doctor: A Country GP Between the Wars, Tales of Courage, Hardship and Hope by Ronald White-Cooper from Pan (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Ronald was an experienced surgeon, who had worked in London's East End and in the terrible conditions of the Somme during the First World War, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920, newly-wed and looking for a fresh start as a GP, he found himself facing some unexpected challenges. Not only were local villagers unimpressed by the young doctor's new-fangled ways, but he would need all his wits, as well as his medical skills, to deal with the cases that came through his surgery door each day.
Whether it was a grumpy old farmer, a manic dentist or a midwife convinced she had been haunted, Ronald helped his patients as best he could, from premature births and the ever-prevalent TB to attempted suicides. In a world without antibiotics, where there was no cure for many common diseases, life was unpredictable. For Ronald too, there were times of personal tragedy as well as great joy as he practised through the depression and the Second World War.
Written with warmth and humour, and full of eccentric characters, Call the Doctor movingly evokes a bygone age.
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