The Ninth Grave
A Fabian Risk Novel
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3.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
"An atmospheric and complicated saga of crimes that criss-cross the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark...great cop characters...and some imaginatively grisly perps."— Sunday Times
Would you kill for the one you love? That's the question that international bestseller Stefan Ahnhem's The Ninth Grave: A Fabian Risk Novel seeks to answer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a Face.
On a cold winter evening, the Swedish minister of justice disappears without a trace from the short walk between the house of Parliament and his car. At the same time the wife of a famous Danish TV-star is found brutally murdered in her luxury home north of Copenhagen. Soon more bodies are discovered, all missing different body parts. As criminal investigator Fabian Risk and Danish counterpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces together, they are dragged into a conspiracy worse than anyone could imagine.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The prologue of Ahnhem's scathing second Fabian Risk novel (after 2016's Victim Without a Face) recounts how a letter written by a dying Palestinian held prisoner in Israel in 1999 got mailed to a woman in Sweden. Flash forward to 2009, when the Swedish minister of justice disappears one day outside the parliament building in Stockholm. Risk's boss orders the sympathetically drawn policeman, who's plagued by conflicts between his job and his marriage, to undertake a secret search for the missing minister. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Dunja Hougaard, an edgy Danish homicide detective, probes the vicious murder of the wife of a popular TV star. Excerpts from the Palestinian prisoner's letter point to the horrendous truth behind this and subsequent brutal slayings. In the end, Risk and Hougaard arrive at an interlocking solution to their respective investigations, and Ahnhem exposes the greed and corruption at the highest levels of society and government. Fans of Scandinavian noir won't want to miss this disturbing thriller.
