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The Savage Altar
Sep 20, 2024 3:31 AM

Author:Asa Larsson

The Savage Altar

'A breath of fresh cold air . . . a dangerous edge to gladden fans of Lisbeth Salander' Boyd Tonkin

The first in the Rebecka Martinsson series from the million-book bestselling author, for fans of Stieg Larsson, The Bridge and The Killing TV series.

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 is first to discover the body and she soon finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and confused, she calls on an old friend: hot-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson.

Can Rebecka dig beneath the surface of the community that she once fled, and find the truth?

'A chilling plot knee-deep in blood-spattered snow' Jim Kelly

'A labyrinthine conspiracy, superlative storytelling' Independent

A nail biting, suspense-filled mystery' Sunday Telegraph

Reviews

Nail-biting . . . A suspense-filled mystery by yet another talented Swedish writer

—— Sunday Telegraph

A labyrinthine conspiracy, superlative storytelling

—— Independent

Lose yourself in Jackson's atmospheric writing as he introduces us to his intriguing Victorian heroine, Sarah Tanner. Jackson is a writer who not only knows his history but who knows how to tell a truly engrossing tale

—— Gilda O'Neill

Mystery and romance par excellence

—— Sun

Fleming finds an unencumbered, historically penetrating language in which the simplest expository sentences can bring prose, story and setting into a crisp and evocative alignment

—— Sam Thompson , Guardian

This is a tense, thrilling and at times darkly comic novel with a complex central character who... bursts off the page

—— Time Out

An extremely wintry and hard hitting adventure story...this is a historical evocation at times as powerful as the account of pre-1914 Berlin that the late great Sybille Bedford gave us in A Legacy..... readers will surely welcome its author to the ranks of our greatest storytellers

—— Literary Review

Virile, ruthless, adventurous

—— Independent

With this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy

—— Crime Time Magazine

This is a story not for people who like reading novels but for the much larger number who like solving puzzles

—— Sunday Telegraph

Bruen's tightly coiled prose strikes like a piss-soaked rattler.

—— Capital

Sharp, punch and unsettling, Priest is a masterpiece.

—— Peterborough Evening Telegraph

... An intensely dark maelstrom ... excellent.

—— www.marymartin.com.au

Bruen should be valued as one of the most challenging and memorable writers in the genre at the moment.

—— www.reviewingtheevidence.com
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