Geiger
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3.6 • 8 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
For a seemingly perfect family, a single word will change everything in this edge‑of‑your‑seat thriller for fans of The Silent Patient and The Whisper Man.
It's early summer in Stockholm. Agneta and Stellan Broman have just waved off their daughters and grandchildren when the landline phone rings. The caller says just one word: "Geiger." Agneta hangs up, finds her old pistol, kills her husband of fifty years and then disappears from their home without a trace.
Sara Nowak, a police officer in the prostitution unit, is called by a colleague who is investigating the murder. Stellan was a widely loved former television presenter, and Sara grew up next door to the Bromans, spending much of her childhood in their grand house. Both the victim's daughters and Sara are devastated by the killing, and going against all regulations, Sara gets involved in the investigation. It is the beginning of a dark journey, leading back to the Cold War and fatal ideologies, and the truth about Sara's own childhood.
Exciting, compelling, and full of twists you'll never see coming, Geiger is Gustaf Skördeman's incredible debut thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Swedish screenwriter and director Skördeman's excellent debut, a contemporary Stockholm police procedural, Agneta Broman, a 69-year-old grandmother, commits a shocking act. Within moments after her visiting daughters and grandchildren leave, Agneta fatally shoots her 85-year-old husband, Stellan, who was once a beloved television presenter, and vanishes. Sara Nowak, a police detective on the prostitution unit who has anger management problems, used to play with the Bromans' two daughters as a child and becomes obsessed with finding Stellan's killer. Gradually, she uncovers a terrorist web spawned by East Germany's dreaded Stasi, whose tentacles reach into Sweden's highest political circles, and that threatens "something big" with dire consequences for the entire European Union. In powerful secondary plots, Sara wages a private war against the Swedish government's refusal to defend prostitutes from exploitation and contends with the guilt she feels for putting her job before her family. Skördeman keeps readers fully engaged right up to the last shattering revelations. This tale of Cold War revenge and familial anguish will resonate with many.
