The Blood SpiltIt’s midsummer in Sweden—when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest—who made enemies and acolytes in equal number—has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces.... Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spree—one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise. The further Rebecka is drawn into the mystery—a mystery that will soon take another victim—the more the dead woman’s world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice. In prose that is both lyrical and visceral, Åsa Larsson has crafted a novel of pure entertainment, a taut, atmospheric mystery that will hold you in thrall until the last, unforgettable page is turned |
Contents
Section 19 | 201 |
Section 20 | 208 |
Section 21 | 219 |
Section 22 | 224 |
Section 23 | 229 |
Section 24 | 238 |
Section 25 | 279 |
Section 26 | 287 |
Section 9 | 104 |
Section 10 | 109 |
Section 11 | 125 |
Section 12 | 129 |
Section 13 | 138 |
Section 14 | 145 |
Section 15 | 165 |
Section 16 | 178 |
Section 17 | 193 |
Section 18 | 197 |
Section 27 | 295 |
Section 28 | 297 |
Section 29 | 299 |
Section 30 | 304 |
Section 31 | 308 |
Section 32 | 313 |
Section 33 | 316 |
Section 34 | 327 |
Section 35 | 333 |
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Alajärvi alpha female Anki Anna-Maria Mella arms asked Anna-Maria Bertil Stensson bloody church coffee dark door Erik Nilsson eyes face feel felt floor Ford Escort forest Fred Olsson front girl gone hair hand head hear inside Jukkasjärvi Kiruna kitchen kronor Lars-Gunnar laughed Lindmark Lisa Stöckel looked Luleå Magnus Majken Måns Maria Micke Mildred Nilsson Mildred's Mimmi mother mouth murder Nalle Nalle's nodded nose Okay pack parish priest Poikkijärvi police Popeye priest's house prosecutor pulled Rebecka Martinsson river Torne says she'd shouted side sitting Sivving smile sofa standing stay Stefan Wikström stood stopped Sven-Erik Stålnacke talk tell there's things thought Rebecka Tintin Tommy Rantakyrö Torbjörn Ylitalo Torsten trees turned village walked who'd window wolf wolf foundation woman women Yellow Legs Yngve Bergqvist