The Crow Girl

The Crow Girl

by Neil Smith (Translator), Erik Axl Sund (Author)

Synopsis

THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION It starts with just one body - tortured, mummified and then discarded. Its discovery reveals a nightmare world of hidden lives. Of lost identities, secret rituals and brutal exploitation, where nobody can be trusted. This is the darkest, most complex case the police have ever seen. This is the world of the Crow Girl.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 768
Edition: hardcover
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 14 Apr 2016

ISBN 10: 1846557569
ISBN 13: 9781846557569
Book Overview: The Crow Girl is an unputdownable and terrifying thriller with two striking women as its centre and a series of plot twists that will leave you open mouthed. Dare you read?

Media Reviews
Compelling... we are left gasping for breath * Daily Mail *
A compulsive page-turner... ridiculously entertaining * Sunday Express *
There's a fantastic twist... the pace of its revelations [is] relentless * Observer, Thriller of the Month *
Dark, powerful, disturbing * The Times *
The best crime novel of the year so far * Metro *
A breakneck journey through a plot of labyrinthine complexity... Sund boldly places dissociative identity disorder...at the heart of this extremely disturbing novel. -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times *
A dark and brutal read that addresses violence perpetuated by women. Snappy writing makes this a page-turning thriller * ShortList *
Creepy is elevated to an art form in this tale of dysfunctional characters, peppered with paedophilia, guilt, pain, powerlessness, denial and betrayal... The subject matter makes for harrowing reading at times, but skilfully escalating suspense keeps you hooked all the way * Irish News *
A pulse-pounding thriller that manages to linger on character depth and puts an emphasis on supporting characters that are usually given short shrift. With its heady mix of graphic violence, noirish thrills and social commentary, the book is a must-read for Scandinavian crime fiction enthusiasts....a huge book and a landmark achievement * CrimeFictionLover *
Tipped to make a killing * Guardian *
Exerts an inexorable grip -- Barry Forshaw * Financial Times *
This is addictive, intelligent entertainment of the highest order... It is an astonishingly stringent, well executed and actually almost without exception breathlessly suspenseful psychological thriller bar none * Kristianstadsbladet, Sweden *
Impressive and terrifying * Crimezone, Netherlands *
Insanely creepy psycho-thriller that places the thin veneer of normality under the microscope. * Elle, Denmark *
The Crow Girl is a psychological thriller that will take you to the darkest corners of human insanity * Paperblog.com, Italy *
Author Bio
Erik Axl Sund is the pseudonym for two authors who have been friends and collaborators for years: Jerker Erikson and Hakan Axlander Sundquist. Hakan was a sound engineer, musician and artist, while Jerker was a music producer and worked as a librarian in a prison. Both live in Sweden where they are now full-time writers, and also run an art gallery together. Originally written as a trilogy before being re-worked for the English language markets The Crow Girl is their first book. The complete trilogy received the 'Special Award' from the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers in 2012, with the academy highlighting the trilogy's hypnotically captivating psychoanalysis in crime fiction form.