Swedish writer David Lagercrantz has made a reputation for himself because the literary successor of famed thriller author Stieg Larsson. Larsson is behind some of the well-known thriller trilogies on this planet: the Millenium Trilogy, made from up the novels The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.
After Larsson’s loss of life, Lagercrantz took the baton and continued writing the fourth, fifth and sixth instalments of the Millenium collection. The Girl within the Spider’s Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The Girl Who Lived Twice all went on to grew to become bestsellers.
Leaving behind the world of Larsson, Lagercrantz has taken on a new problem. His newest thriller, Dark Music, is the primary instalment of his personal homicide thriller collection. With a layered thriller at its core and an unforgettable crime-fighting duo, Dark Music will not be one to overlook.
UNLIKELY DETECTIVE DUO CARRIES LAGERCRANTZ NOVEL
The true crime world has not scarcity of unlikely crime preventing duos. From Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes and Watson to Stieg Larsson’s Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, readers love detective duos.
David Lagercrantz is aware of this and his newest thriller Dark Music (translated from Swedish by Ian Giles), whereas a compelling thriller, is carried by the unlikely friendship and teamwork of Professor Hans Rekke and detective Micaela Vargas.
These two characters couldn’t be extra totally different and that is what makes this duo a high crew. With darkish humour, fast-paced writing and a twisty thriller, Dark Music offers readers a new crew to root for.
If the novel didn’t have such an ideal mixture of characters, it will not have been nearly as good a thriller.
While the thriller is compelling, the writing type leans a bit chaotic. The reader is usually left feeling a bit confused. This might simply be Lagercrantz’s writing type, or it might have one thing to do with the truth that Dark Music is a translated work. Sometimes, issues do get misplaced in translation and in Dark Music, the story received a bit muddled at occasions.
This doesn’t take away from the truth that this can be a thriller that can have you ever hooked. With beautiful descriptions of Scandinavian cities and intriguing characters, Dark Music is an ideal Christmas present for the true crime fanatic in your loved ones.
‘DARK MUSIC’ SYNOPSIS
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Professor Hans Rekke is a world authority on interrogation methods. He was born into wealth and energy and has a picture-perfect spouse and daughter. But he additionally has a fragile psyche that falls aside beneath strain.
Micaela Vargas is a street-smart police officer. She is the daughter of Chilean political refugees, grew up within the tasks on the outskirts of Stockholm and has two brothers on the improper aspect of the regulation. She is tenacious and uncompromising, and determined to show herself to her fellow cops.
Micaela wants Hans’s distinctive thoughts to assist her resolve the case of a murdered asylum-seeker from Afghanistan. Hans wants Micaela to avoid wasting him from himself. Together, they should discover the killer earlier than they’re each silenced for good.
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Lagercrantz is a Swedish journalist and bestselling writer. He studied philosophy and faith, earlier than acquiring a level from the Gothenburg School of Journalism. He labored as against the law reporter for 4 years on the Scandinavian newspaper Expressen, the place he lined essentially the most distinguished homicide circumstances in Sweden through the late 80s and early 90s.
Lagercrantz made his e book debut in 1997 with the story of Göran Kropp, a Swedish adventurer who summited Mount Everest with neither oxygen nor Sherpas, just one week after one of many worst disasters ever on the mountain.
The e book was a hit in Sweden and overseas and paved the best way for an illustrious writing profession. He has gone on to jot down a number of bestselling crime novels.
Dark Music is revealed by Quercus Publishing and is out there from Exclusive Books shops for R363.