Linda, as in the Linda Murder: A Backstrom Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307907653)

The irascible, obdurate, and very thirsty Detective Superintendent Evert B ckstr m of the National Murder Squad returns in a new novel from the reigning master of Scandinavian fiction.

It's the dead of summer in the sleepy town of V xj when twenty-year-old police cadet Linda Wallin is found lying facedown in her mother's apartment, brutally murdered and raped. With no clear motive or suspect in sight, a series of bureaucratic mix-ups causes the National Crime Unit to send B ckstr m and his team into the countryside to solve the case. The ever-irritable B ckstr m leaves his beloved goldfish behind, checks into a local hotel, and begins to reconstruct the night of Linda's murder. But with more than a few bottles in tow, and a constantly growling stomach to look after, things don't go so well, and B ckstr m has to rely on the help of his colleagues to solve the crime--no matter how angry that makes him.

Author: Leif Gw Persson
ISBN-10: 0307907651
ISBN-13: 9780307907653
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2016
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2016 pg. 30