Souls of Air by Mons Kallentoft
THE INFORMATION IS CONTRADICTORY, THE COURSE OF EVENTS CONFUSED.
The air is quivering with heat. An unusual late-summer storm approaches Linköping, and at a mismanaged nursing home 79-year-old Konrad Karlsson is found dead, hung in the cord to his medical alarm button.
The Circumstances suggest suicide, but when Malin Fors and her associates question people who knew him, they all speak of a man who, despite his ailments, had a strong will to live. He was well-liked by the staff and a kind of surrogate grandfather for Malin’s daughter Tove, who has a summer job at the home.
The Suspicions that Konrad did not commit suicide are reinforced by the autopsy. An investigation is started, but nothing seems to fit together. The information is contradictory, the course of events confused. Who has anything to gain from the death of a sick old man, even in a society where financial interests seem to count for more than human dignity?
Inspector Malin Fors is the star of the police force. Stubborn and skillful, intuitive and intelligent. Obsessed. Constantly on the run from herself, constantly absorbed by work.
ICE COLD, GROUNDBREAKING SUSPENSE.
It is the coldest February in recent memory. In the early hours of a particularly cold night, the body of an obese man is found hanging from a lone oak tree in the middle of the withered, windswept plains of Östergötland.
The young superintendent Malin...
RUTHLESS GREED EXPLOITING THE MOST VULNERABLE: CHILDREN.
Spring is in the air in Linköping and things are looking up for Malin Fors. Though still haunted by the ghosts of her past and years of substance abuse and self-destruction, it seems she is finally on an even keel. Malin’s daughter Tove...
A BRUTALLY-STABBED BODY IS FOUND FLOATING FACEDOWN IN THE MOAT.
It is Autumn in Linkoping and the heavens have opened, but not even these biblical rains can wash away the blood of crimes past and present. Then the brutally-stabbed body of self-made Internet billionaire Jerry Petersson is discovered...