Bargain @ $1.99 from Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint in multiple stores (not couponable, linkage goes to Kobo but no doubt price-matched at your favourite Canada/US venue):
The Disappeared by Swedish author Kristina Ohlsson (
SYKM), 3rd in her Fredrika Berman series of Stockholm-set crime thrillers, which fulfills my Nordic noir-buying impulse for today.
A young woman on her way to a party vanishes without a trace. Two years later, with all hope lost, her body turns up. Mercilessly dismembered, it has deteriorated considerably in its lonely burial spot on the edge of a forest. The forensic team is able to identify the body as that of Rebecca Tolle, a student at the nearby university.
Investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman and her team are assigned to solve the case and question those who may be responsible for Rebecca’s brutal death. Soon, more bodies are found, in the same area. But the killer is still at large.
Fredrika discovers that when Rebecca died, she was researching a person with a dark past- one that Rebecca seems to have uncovered. Fredrika is deeply invested in the already heart-wrenching case, but when her lover’s name comes up as a possible suspect, it might be too much for her to bear.
Did Rebcecca get too close to evil- prompting evil to react?